Farr High's entrepreneurs through to finals
Farr High's entrepreneurial team
FARR High School’s young entrepreneurs are, for the third year running, to represent Highland and Moray in the Scottish Finals of the Young Enterprise Scotland Company Programme.
Teams of fifth and sixth year secondary school students took part in the regional Innovation Awards at Nairn last week, competing for various prizes including Best Overall Company.
Teams from Dingwall Academy, Farr High School, Forres Academy, Fortrose Academy and Inverness Royal Academy competed for 11 Awards.
Farr High School, with their innovative "Farr Safer" heel cleats, were voted Best Overall Company, and now go forward to the Scottish Finals in Glasgow in June where they will compete against 16 other teams from around the country.
Importing, marketing and selling heel cleats and personal safety equipment, the team were praised by judges for great innovation, good leadership, commitment and enthusiasm.
The cleats are available in a range of sizes and are fitted to shoes to improve grip during bad weather or when hill walking. As well as making sales to individuals and private and public sector organisations the group have travelled to Latvia to take part in a European Young Enterprise trading event that further widened their experience.
At the awards last week, they also won the Lifescan Award for Best Stand at the Trade Fair; the Highland Business Research Award for Best Market Research; the Highland and Moray Board Quaich for Best Publicity (joint winners with Fortrose Academy); the Harper Macleod Award for Best Report; the Bank of Scotland Award for Most Outstanding speaker/personality (Josh Fisher) and the Fusion Award for Entrepreneur of the Year (also Josh Fisher). Presenting Farr High pupils with their award, Highland Councillor Helen Carmichael, said: "My congratulations to the team from Farr High School, Bettyhill, for their achievement in winning the Best Overall Company Shield at the Highland Finals.
"Farr is a small school in an isolated rural area, but they are an enthusiastic team who worked well together, who had a great product idea and a first class teacher. They ‘learnt by doing’ which is the motto of the Young Enterprise programme."
