Our 1st Baccalaureate students achieved a meritorious second place with its project Waypointsa travel experience app optimised using artificial intelligence. As part of the Simulated Company of the Economics subject, the Baccalaureate students, led by their teacher Erik Bissiere, took part in the 11th edition of the Certamen StartInnovaa business ideas competition created by The Courier has been running for eleven years now to promote entrepreneurship among young people.
After presenting his project to the Mayor of Leioa last January, the project Waypoints was selected as a finalist among more than 1,000 participants from 47 schools in Bizkaia, thus sneaking into the coveted final. The team made up of Borja Lasa, Gorka Vivanco, Javier Lampreabe, Jon Cabia and Pablo González then had to present their project to a demanding committee of experts who decided the results yesterday, Tuesday, at a gala that took place in the Euskalduna Conference Centre where they were accompanied by their families, the subject teacher Erik Bissiere and the director of Gaztelueta, Mikel Elía.
The jury was made up of Saioa Urizar, Director of Institutions BBVA Norte; Javier Corral, Vice-Dean for Quality, Educational Innovation and Entrepreneurship in the Faculty of Economics and Business; Mila Gallastegi, self-employment technician at Bilbao Ekintza (Bilbao City Council); Arantza Álvarez, technician in applied innovation in business creation at Tknika (Basque Government) and Antonio Barrena, director of events and sponsorship at EL CORREO, concluded that the project Waypoints of our 1st Baccalaureate students was worthy of the second prize.
The programme StartInnova offers our students a series of audiovisual resources and e-learning experiences aimed at developing an entrepreneurial project and at the same time strengthening key skills in this task, such as vision, planning capacity, proactivity, synergy capacity, communication skills and negotiation skills.
