Holly (l) and Niamh pick up the big cheque for their Schools Project win.
We hosted the presentations earlier this week for our Schools Project - a project about engaging more closely with Art & Design teachers in Secondary Schools across Scotland. The project was sponsored by Threebrand - an Edinburgh-based Design Agency who are involved in our mentoring programme and are strong supporters of design education and employer engagement.
The project hopes to improve information about FE and studying in the Creative Industries in particular, and also to encourage schools to look at the way they prepare school leavers for interviews, portfolios and Higher Education courses. This collaboration between the College and Secondary Schools aims to develop a new strategy for increasing access to FE for school leavers.
Prior to the presentations we held a short reception in the Hub, where sample HND Graded Unit and HNC design projects were exhibited, and the presentations then took place in studio R310.
We had five shortlisted projects
Liam Philp (HND)
Laurence Barber and Hazel Pike (HNC)
Chelsea Foley and Natasha Ryan (NC)
Christina Giannakou (HND)
Niamh Curran & Holly McNie (HNC)
The students pitched to a panel of High School Art & Design teachers -
Scott Hunter (SQA Graphics Principal Verifier), Stuart Longair (Stewarts Melville), Shonagh Primrose (Tynecastle High), Philippa Drummond (Drummond High) and Robert Ward (Craigroyston High)
- who kindly came along to the Granton Campus for the evening. They watched each presentation and then provided feedback and selected a winning project. The top prize included becoming a College Ambassador for Edinburgh College, and receiving a funding cheque to further develop the idea into a real campaign or product.
Helena presents College Ambassador badges to Holly and Niamh.
Massive well done to Niamh Curran and Holly McNie who won the top prize with their 'creative takeover' concept. Niamh and Holly will now look at fully developing their concept into a new promotional educational tool to be rolled out to high schools in 2017.
