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Kingussie High School scoops first place for Junior and Senior categories at this year’s Growing Future Assets Competition. After going to head-to-head with 660 schoolgirls competing from 144 teams across Scotland, Kingussie High School, based in the Scottish Highlands, has scooped first place for not one, but both the Junior and Senior categories, at this year’s nationwide Growing ...
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4C UR Future LIVE events set to provide young people from across Northern Ireland with an insight into the future world of work. Exciting times ahead for 4C UR Future, the social enterprise that aims to empower young people to make more informed education and career choices, with the news that they are bringing Northern Ireland’s business community together to support the delivery of a se...
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Live-streamed event at NI Science Festival set to inspire young people in Northern Ireland on exciting STEM career opportunities and pathways. I LOVE My STEM Career! will all take place on the mornings of the 21st and 22nd Feb, highlighting exciting STEM-focused career opportunities and pathways for teenagers and young people. Via the event live stream (and with a limited number of ticke...
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Covid-NITeen is an exciting step-by-step project for NI students, from year 10 and up, to create new and innovative digital or product-based business ideas that address some of the key pandemic-related challenges We’ve all had to make changes over the last year and adapt to the new normal in which we find ourselves - from social distancing through to home-schooling and online work-outs. ...
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Tootoot is an innovative app providing students with a safe, anonymous environment to report and resolve any bullying or mental health concerns discretely Hot on the heels of our look at Culture Shift and their method of shining a light on workplace bullying, and a platform through which employees can safely report incidents and situations, we are taking a look at a similar thing for sc...
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The London based startup, Erase All Kittens, that's created a game that inspires children to code and teaches professional programming skills. Yes, we know you want to rush through the opening to see if the titular kittens are okay, so we’ll make it short. Our world is ever more reliant on technology. Our own articles have detailed how even things like farming, house building, and gett...
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As we all know, financial challenges can be one of the biggest issues our schools have to face these days. Between budget cuts and lack of resources they certainly don’t have it easy. That however need not necessarily be the case, thanks to our latest startup of the week. School Space is an innovative social enterprise which is focused on helping schools generate extra income from their exi...
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As you know, at Startacus HQ we are all about encouraging people to achieve their full potential, whether that’s through creating their own business, or working in a job that makes the most of their talents and skills.  We very much believe in a grass-roots approach to encouraging this kind of positive working life- and what better place to start than in our schools?   We have bee...
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