At the Staff Development Festival Launch, a "Not-The-Dragons'-Den" event was held as a competition for the Leeds Met "Ideas Factory". Submissions for this Ideas Factory had been requested a few months ago, and each faculty had selected two entries. Mine had been a project about using Google Maps to enhance our Leeds Met website. At Innovation North there had been 14 entries, and originally my idea had not been selected to be among the two going forward.
However, in mid-August I got a notification that I now should submit my entry, and that it would be presented. As it turned out, at the actual Ideas Factory event there were 4 entries from Innovation North, and only one other entry (from the Faculty of Health).
In the end, my pitch won the Ideas Factory award. I assume this had to do something with the fact that the European Director of Google was in the jury... a fact that I had not known before, when I formulated this idea!
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