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TY MINI COMPANIES

Stripz

Stripz Enterprise is a Mini Company set up
We are a Transition Year Mini-Company named Illuminate! in the Royal School Cavan. Our vision was
Our team is made up of Cian Walker, Dylan Nugent, Conor to make organisation easier to ensure this
Flint and Jake Fegan. At illuminate, we created assistive we developed a slogan: Organisation made
light fixtures for both practical and functional use. simple, welcome to the future.

We designed and created three different products at Our Mini Company’s aim was to design and
Illuminate to create a broad range of products. We built manufacture high quality products that will
miniature Christmas jam jar lights, which were made from help aid people’s organisations skills. We
recycled jam jars that were donated to us. Furthermore, we designed an efficient way for people to store their keys at
built assistive drawer lights, which were very practical as home or at work on a regular basis.
they helped to light up dark drawers. Finally, we built our
flagship product which was a clap activated assistive light, As part of our research we asked 30 students from our school
which would benefit the elderly and young children. to fill out a questionnaire. We received feedback from the
students to see which product they were most interested
We built all of our products in the schools technology in as well as suggestions on how to improve the product.
room, where he had a whole host of machines and tools Our inventions were magnetic key holders and magnetic
to manufacture our products. We applied a wide range of timetables. We priced our magnetic timetables at €1.50
high quality finishes to our products, thus to achieve the as we felt this was a reasonable profit margin for our mini
highest market value. We then went on to sell our products company. Based on the time and money involved in making
at the Annual Cavan Craft Fair, as well as in our school room the standard key holder we priced it at €6.50.
during mini company fairs. We also attended the Cavan
Student Enterprise Awards in the Slieve Russell hotel where Stripz Enterprise aimed to sell their products to the general
our products gained widespread interest. public especially in the Cavan/Monaghan area. We sold over
€136.50 euro worth of products. Our magnetic timetables
As being part of a Mini-Company we learned key skills sold the best in the month of October, December, and
into being an innovative and successful aggregation. January and in November the standard magnetic holders
Additionally, we learned that co-operation and team work sold the finest. Manufacturing the products was not easy
are essential keys into opening the door to success. as we had use different tools like the micro router and the
We would like to take this opportunity to thank both Mr. vacuum former to construct our products.
Robertson and Mr. Patterson for their help and beneficial It was a very stressful mini company with lots of arguments
input throughout the year. Without their help, our success and disagreements but overall it was a wonderful experience
would not have been possible. Although we did not win thoroughly enjoyed by all the members on the team.
any student enterprise awards, we opened up our eyes to Getting involved in the enterprise education competition
the world of business, and have acquired valuable skills that was a day we will all remember greatly and laugh about in
will stand for us in the future. the near future.
The members of the team were Adam Chan, David Nzewi,
Jennifer Sonaike, Robert Matthews & Lucky Udeogu.

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