What was it all about?
This year students working on the Community Based Challenge had an extra challenge within a challenge in the form of ‘Dragons’ Denmite’. Held at the kind invitation of Jack Wratten at Hereford’s Bloomspace each student was given a thirty-minute session with a pair of mentors from across the region including award winning garden and road safety equipment designers, a retired general, a biometric security expert, a banking investment manager and several business development coaches.
In their allotted time each student had to set out their plan to complete the development and then bring to market their proposal to deliver timely flood warning to homes and businesses across the county, challenge set by local environmental expert and campaigner Dave Throup (@davethroup). This event not only help students with the final assessment of the module, a costed business plan, it also worked their inter-personal communication skills as interview practice for when they leave NMITE and enter the workplace.
Dragons DeNMITE 2025 is already being planned. If you or your business would like to help guide our future world-conscious engineers, get in touch now!
