Students at Narromine High School have put their entrepreneur skills to the test, participating in the Young Change Agents program.
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The program aims to help young people see problems as opportunities.
Seven teams of five students took part of the workshop at Narromine High School, where they were required to identify problems within their communities then, validate, prototype and pitch their idea.
Seven social enterprise ideas were pitched to a panel of judges including former Narromine High School principal Michael Cronk, Erin Payne and Karlene Middleton on July 26.
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Ideas pitched included ideas such as a mobile art truck that brings mobile art walls to young people so they can practice their art, through to an app to provide virtual reality experiences for young people who live remotely and don't necessarily have the money to afford to go to events and concerts.
The judges choice award went to 'Farm Watch', a social enterprise which uses existing tracking systems, linked to an app, that extracts research from data sets collected from the tracking systems.
The business aims to sell the data and donate it to science and research to educate the public through workshops which utilise this data.
"The team picked a very topical issue which does need to be addressed," the judges commented after selecting the winner.
"Their idea of educating the public about how animals are treated is a very commercial and viable idea. Not to mention a valuable solution to a real problem."
The program teaches students to work together to identify a problem, create a social enterprise solution and develop an idea and pitch them to an audience for feedback.