Students feel the heat of the ‘Dragons’ Den’

Carrick students have tasted success in a ‘Dragons’ Den’ enterprise project.
Celebrating success in the University of Ulster enterprise challenge is the winning Cuppa-t-cakes team: (left to right) Rachel Patterson, Rebecca Weir, both from Carrickfergus, Michael Totton from Antrim, Chris Achemhurst from Dundonald, Megan Reid from Glengormley and Paige Semple-Cargin from Coleraine.
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Celebrating success in the University of Ulster enterprise challenge is the winning Cuppa-t-cakes team: (left to right) Rachel Patterson, Rebecca Weir, both from Carrickfergus, Michael Totton from Antrim, Chris Achemhurst from Dundonald, Megan Reid from Glengormley and Paige Semple-Cargin from Coleraine.  inct 12-790-con

The finalists got a start-up loan and the advice of a mentor to help them bring a business idea to the market for one day.

Megan Reid, from the winners who sold almost 800 cupcakes and made packaged boxes of six for people to take away, said: “The experience was so valuable, it showed us there is a lot more to running a business, but our hard work and the team effort paid off.”

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