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THE TRIANGLE TEASER

Hi! We are The Triangle Teaser! For our mini company, we To give our product a unique, cutting
created a brain teaser board game which helps people with edge in comparison to other brain
their problem solving skills, while also being very fun and teasers on the market, we decided
addictive. Our mini company is made up of seven members; to expand our game to create a
Aaron Heaslip, Aisling Conaty, Adam Poyntz, Kelly Eguakun, multiplayer aspect. This added a
David Noble, Aleksander Gusev and Callum McGuigan. competitive element to the game and we felt it increased
Within this company everybody had different positions and the overall enjoyment of our product.
roles to play. We attended a Christmas craft fair in the Backyard in Cavan
To manufacture our product we ordered 10 large sheets which was only the start of our successful sales as well as
of MDF (Medium Density Fibre) wood and cut them into taking part in the craft fair in our school. Other craft fairs we
triangles, using a mitre saw. We also made a template to drill have attended include a sale at Cavan No.1 primary school
15 holes into them, and bought golf tees to place into them and demonstrations at Eason in Cavan. So far we have sold
and we sanded the edges of the board to make it safe for over 100 products and we are delighted that we have been
use by children.
so successful with this Mini Company.
We were very happy with the success of our mini company.
We sold our product in several shops including Eason After these sales, with a lot of preparation we attended
in Cavan town, Skelly’s in Ballyjamesduff and Pricewise, the Student Enterprise competition in the Slieve Russell
Cootehill. We also performed demonstrations in the above Hotel. We also attended the Transition Year ‘Get Up and
shops. Go’ competition in Athlone at the end of March. We were
We were pleasantly surprised with the reaction of the public very successful on the day, winning 3 prizes - for Finance,
to our product. Many were very interested and willing to Presentation and Innovation. We were delighted with the
take the time to play our game and as a result, we were able overall outcome of the day!
to sell many of our products. We would like to take this opportunity to thank Miss Argue
The most popular forms of entertainment are nowadays and Mr. Patterson for their help with our Mini Company. We
undoubtedly on our phones or TV Screens. However, our could not have done all that we have without their help!
product was a step away from technology and is more of a
traditional game, and originally we did not know whether
to view this as positive or negative, as we weren’t sure
how much interest our product would generate among
the public. Therefore we were delighted by the fact that
our product brought happiness and entertainment to our
customers and we did not have to use a screen or monitor
to accomplish this!

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