Changes Award started for schoolchildren

Details: Released: 27.01.2021; Last updated: 28.02.2023; Hits: 4266

The Changes Award goes digital. The participating students work digitally on their project ideas. They meet online with their coaches and teachers. Yesterday's kick-off event recorded 100 participants. The competition is supported by Mitsubishi Electric and the Friends of the Cromford Industrial Museum.

The Kick Off for the Changes Award 2021 took place on January 26th. In addition to interesting information about the course of the competition and valuable tips on how best to present yourself and your idea, the students received interesting information. But the real highlight of the day was getting to know their personal coaches. They accompany the teams through the competition and support them in creating their business plan.

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So basically everything as with every previous kick-off of the business plan competition for Q1 students from Ratingen, Düsseldorf and the surrounding area. With one difference: the participants sat in front of their laptops, tablets or smartphones and took part in the virtual event via Microsoft Teams.

Online event today quite normal

“The first digital Changes Award has started successfully. We are thrilled at how quickly the young people switched to working digitally and that so many have applied to take part in the competition. This year groups from Ratingen, Düsseldorf Heiligenhaus, Essen and Krefeld will be there, ”says Wolfgang Kueppers, first chairman of the Friends and Patrons of the Industrial Museum.

It was difficult to imagine a year ago, but today it was a matter of course: dialing into the video conference, automatically muting presentations and raising hands digitally for questions. The students knew exactly how it worked.

Even group photos of the participants were taken: thanks to the "Together" function in MS Teams, the participants have access to a virtual lecture room Photo Shoot Seated.

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Now the teams start into the project phase and start working out their business plans. The next meetings with the coaches are already planned - digitally, of course.

On June 15.06.2021, XNUMX, the teams will present their business plans in Final. Whether digitally or personally on site at Mitsubishi Electric in Ratingen. You can look forward to great ideas and great presentations again. The award ceremony is to take place on June 20.06.2021th, 15.06 as part of the Cromford Parkfest. “We are already incredibly excited about the business plans that we will be planning on June XNUMX. will see in the final ”, says happily George Jennen, General Manager of the German subsidiary of Mitsubishi Electric.

What's there to win

In competition, the students develop skills such as strategic thinking, teamwork, research and presentation skills. Such skills also have an impact on their school development.

The winning team will travel to the Japanese with their supervising teacher Capital Tokyo. The school receives a cash prize worth EUR 1500. The winning teams in places 2 and 3 each receive one Technology voucher worth EUR 1000 or EUR 500. The schools receive a cash prize worth EUR 1000 or EUR 500.