A big WELL DONE to Abbie Thompson – Winner of Heat 2 of the UWE Beermat Challenge

Adult nursing student Abbie wins a a Sony Cyber-shot DSCW180 Digital Camera for her idea “Students should be able to buy parking permits rather than tokens think of all the wasted paper and trees !!!!”

Heat 3 of the Beermat Challenge is now under way with the chance of winning a great Flip Mino HD 4Gb Video Camera – so don’t hesitate to submit those, ideas, tell your friends and get those votes flowing. There’s still 1 more heat left before the grand final where the 10 ten top ideas from each heat will fight it out for the most votes to win the coveted top prize of an Asus eeepc 1005HA Netbook!

Beermat Challenge now has a live TWITTER FEED tweeting directly just for you. Either click the link provided or navigate to twitter.com/bmchallenge

This allows easy access to the latest ideas submitted to the beermat challenge website, which appear in real-time as they are posted. Each tweet contains a direct link to the idea so you can instantly vote on whether you think the submission is a good idea… or not!

As well as a direct feed of new ideas the BMChallenge twitter feed also gives up to date information on the ranking of the top 5 ideas in each heat. As each idea competes for the top slot the feed updates the ranking based on new votes.

So, fire up twitter and start following the Beermat Challenge – and don’t forget to tell your friends!

The UWE Beermat Challenge now has a facebook group so you can keep up to date with the latest happenings in the project.

We’ve had a great response from the first 2 heats and are getting some fab ideas coming through in the 3rd Heat. The prizes are getting increasingly desirable as the heats roll on, so be sure to get your ideas in now and tell your friends – remember VOTES WIN PRIZES – so lets see those index mouse fingers wiggling!

The Top 10 ideas from each Heat go through the Beermat Challenge Grand Final ending on March 12th where you can win a whizzy Asus eeepc 1005HA Netbook. So tell your friends and get involved!

Well done to Rosie Mears! –  Heat 1 Winner of the inaugural UWE beermat Challenge.

Third year psychology student Rosie wins an Olympus WS-550M Digital Voice Recorder to help out with her personal life and studies.

The Beermat Challenge was designed to raise awareness of the RBI (Research, business and innovation) department, The Ideas Factory and The Biz Idea competition. With so many brilliant business ideas in the student population of UWE, the Beermat Challenge provides a simple and fun way of getting your thoughts and ideas heard and winning some great prizes along the way.

The ideas coming through are really inspiring, especially as so many of them relate to life on campus.

In the second heat we have had various thoughts on how lectures can be recorded so that you can still access the material after it has been delivered, in case you can’t make it (those pesky buses!). Lots of great ideas as well relating to how facilities can be improved with new eating places and chill out areas . One of my favourites is for commuter facilities for those avoiding the pesky buses.

…and the weird and wonderful just keep coming – underwear coordinating sanitary towels…..just may win if you vote for it!

Following the nearly 7000 strong response in December, the second heat of the Beermat challenge is upon us. For those of you who have not heard of it, now is your time to get involved.

With a view to increase awareness of the Ideas Factory and the BizIdea competition that runs during spring term, the challenge is a light hearted and engaging way to put forward any business ideas you may have.

Western Eye