Cheshire College Business Students

Break the Ice with Coffee Invention

A team of Level 3 BTEC Business students won the Teamwork award at the Area Final of the Cheshire and Warrington Young Enterprise Awards, following a unanimous vote from the competition’s judges.

Young Enterprise works in partnership with local schools, businesses and volunteers to inspire and equip thousands of young people each year to learn and succeed through enterprise.

The Cheshire College team attended the Area Final at the impressive Eaton Hall, Chester, where they presented their invention Iceberg Coffee; a kit containing all the elements for making iced coffee, reducing the need for single use plastic.

Students were given support by their Business Adviser Angelo Apa, the Business Development Director for Exertis (a leading distributor of technology products), who later congratulated the team on their success.

Lecturer in Business, Suzanne Davies, said of the team’s award: “We’re absolutely thrilled for our Business students. Teamwork is such a highly valued skill by employers, and our students demonstrated this ability excellently.”

“Our students faced a particularly challenging year and managed to work together and make an impressive presentation against some stiff competition. They were great ambassadors for the college and the award was thoroughly well deserved.”

This is not Cheshire College’s first time attending the popular Young Enterprise Awards. The college has seen great success in previous years with inventions such as Cheshire Fusions (a gin infusion kit) and Festibag (a bag catering to festival-goers containing 16 essential products including a portable phone charger, hand wipes and a rain poncho).

Throughout their studies with Cheshire College, students learn all about the different functional areas of a business as they cover a range of topics including different marketing techniques; from market research right through to advertising campaigns, the role of finance, and how to be an effective worker and communicator.