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rewarding. We learnt that working as a team is more effective than working
          on your own because it can produce high quality products for deadlines.
          The importance of being pleasant and polite while dealing with the public
          helped us make more sales.
          Overall, we found the mini-company a great success and a great learning
          experience.






















                                                              To advertise our product we sent letters to primary schools
          HOPPIN’ 2                                           in the Cavan region. We had a suggestion box in our letters
                                                              which we received positive feedback from the primary
          SUCCESS                                             schools. We also advertised through social media - Facebook
                                                              and Instagram and we set up a Gmail account.
          In September 2017, we set up
          our mini company  “Hoppin’ 2                        Sales began in December 2016 after we finalised our product
          Success” as a six member group. Our                 ideas. We attended a Christmas Craft Fair in the Backyard in


                                                              Cavan. We used this opportunity to get our product out into
          members include; Laura McClean (Co-manager), Emma

                                                              the public eye. We talked to people interested in our product
          Bell (Co-manager & Finance Manager), Sorcha Higgins


          (Production Manager), Nicole Ezeudo (Marketing Manager),   and gave them our leaflets and demonstrated our product.


          Rebecca  Snell  (Purchasing  Manager)  and Debbie  Heaslip   We also made sales at our school’s annual Christmas Fair.


          (Sales Manager).                                    On the 8th March 2017, we attended the Student Enterprise

          We created a fun way of assessing primary school student’s   competition in the Slieve Russell Hotel. Here we won a prize

          learning and understanding. Our product is a fun, active and   for Innovation in the senior category. We were delighted
          educational hopscotch game which enables the teacher to   with  this  award  as  we  worked  very  hard  on  our  mini
          assess children’s learning. It is a booklet comprised of Irish,   company product.
          English and Maths questions, the product  comes with                     Overall, we really enjoyed our
          a packet of coloured chalk.  This game combines both                     mini company experience and we
          physical and mental activity.                                            hope to sell our product to schools
          We grouped questions for 3rd & 4th class together and 5th                outside of County Cavan in the
          & 6th class together to make it convenient for the teacher.              future.
          We have incorporated the game of hopscotch into our
          product to make revising fun and appealing for children.
          We included a box of different coloured chalk in the pack,
          along with a hopscotch diagram with colour coding, so
          the layout of the hopscotch game can be drawn on the
          ground easily and conveniently. The simplicity of the game
          of hopscotch brings the child back to
          basics. We packaged our booklet and
          chalk together using twine. We sell our
          product for an affordable price at €10.
          Our main target market was primary
          schools as we felt our product could
          be used predominantly by primary
          school teachers and students. We are
          fortunate to have sold our product to
          many primary schools in Co. Cavan
          and to other people in the area.

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