City students in Future Leaders Challenge final

City students are in the running for a trip to Antartica after reaching the final of the npower Future Leaders Challenge.

For the first time, a team of City students have made it into the final of the npower Future Leaders Challenge, after submitting a plan for a green project. If successful, the students will get to experience the effects of global warning first hand in a trip to Antarctica.


The City team, along with teams from universities across the UK, entered the competition by sending in a short film describing their plans for a local green project around their university and wider community. The four City students, Theodore Larn Jones and Einar Kristoffer Sunde from the School of Social Sciences and David Hama and Grzegorz Drach from Cass Business School, plan to install a test geothermal heating system at a local secondary school.

 

"We are delighted to have made it into the final of the npower Future Leaders Challenge. We'll be installing a cutting edge geo-thermal heating. This has the potential to transform the UK market for UK energy!"

David Hama, BSc Business Studies student

 

The students recently joined nine other teams for an outdoors activity weekend in the Lake District which was specially designed to help develop team building skills, environmental knowledge and other key skills that will enable them to deliver their project. The students learnt about the affect climate change is having on the South Pole and how a series of small actions and projects like theirs, can make a real impact on the environment.              

                                                    
The university teams will be working on their projects for the next two months, before the winning team is announced on 18th December. The City team is being supported by the Centre for Career and Skills Development.



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Date of Article:  22/10/2009