Cathay Craftz - Update
- The 'Make Your Mark With A Tenner' competition is over now and the Academy's team are now just waiting to hear whether or not they have succeeded in making the national finals.
- The competition was a great success. The students sold lots of origami and made £911 in total. After paying their team of volunteers, their net profit was £635.
- With this money the students are going to pay for five students in our partner school, Toli Secondary, to complete three years of secondary education.
- The team learned lots of useful skills: teamwork, managing
staff, meeting deadlines, making sales pitches and also everyone
learned how to make lots of different types of origami!
They held raffles, ran a stall at the Chinese New Year festival in Manchester City Centre, sold to local business as well as staff and students.
![Cathay Craftz team; Ms Jane Delfino [Innovations Director - Manchester Academy]; Olli Barrat [Entrepreneur]& Stephanie Flanders [BBC Newsnight]](/Uploads/gfx/562.JPG)
- Newsnight came back to film the students at the end of the
competition and we were lucky enough to be visited by Olli Barratt,
the entrepreneur who started the competition.
He was very impressed with the hard work the students had put into making their business a success.
