Head's Newsletter 1 April 2022

DESIGN VENTURA COMPETITION

Before we knew it, we were heading off to Deutsche Bank to pitch our idea to a panel of renowned judges . We entered a room with plush chairs, huge projectors and cameramen following our movements(the latter was probably the coolest part of our trip). There was an air of enthusiasm tinted with nerves of presenting in front of every shortlisted school - the cream of young, aspiring entrepreneurs in England. Hence, on observation of every other pitch, I realised that

everyone was quite nervous during their pitches and each team made their own unique mistakes. We were probably the luckiest group - being the last to pitch - as we corrected the mistakes of other groups to make our pitch perfect. The beauty of our pitch was that we had little preparation in terms of pitching, for we were a group driven by confidence and the ability to speak spontaneously. This did us good, for when it was our turn to pitch, we were not nervous but rather energised by the audience and we spoke about our product with so much passion that we even considered turning our product into something commercial afterwards!

At Deutsche Bank

After treating ourselves to some scrumptious appetisers and listening to comments from the judges, we went home knowing that we had a good chance of winning the competition(the results will be announced next month). We all felt so privileged to have such an experience at such a young age, and this experience is one we will all remember for many years to come. I would like to give a special thanks to Mr McKitrick for making Tiffin ’ s entry into this competition possible and Mr Haycocks for aiding us in our final prototype development. Written by Saahil Karthikeyan