DUCK FACTORY

This activity is suitable for students in Years 6 to 9.

PEW staff will facilitate.

Aim: The aim of this activity is to enable the students to participate in a manufacturing simulation.

This activity will develop:

• Team building skills
• Problem solving skills
• Communication skills
• Leadership skills
• Financial awareness
• Raise awareness of employability skills
• Raise awareness of personal skills
• Presentation skills

Background:

• A 3-hour session held in the Hall
• Pupils work in groups of approximately 6, with a maximum of 90 at any one event

The Activity:

• An activity to encourage enterprise and entrepreneurship
• Pupils are arranged in groups of 6 – 8. Each group is a company which makes ducks from paper and are in direct competition with the other companies. The company should appoint an accountant, a buyer and a sales executive and establish a production line for making the ducks. They must source and buy materials, produce the product, sell the product and financially manage the company
• Various problems/challenges are introduced at various stages of the activity to improve the pupils interpersonal, decision making and problem-solving skills.

The role of the volunteer is to act as a bank employee, to sell the raw materials or to work in the Duck Trading Post where he/she will negotiate with the students. At the beginning though volunteers will be asked to help groups understand the concept of what they are doing and help them follow the instructions on how to make an origami duck!!!

• At the end of the activity the company must give a presentation explaining how they worked as a team, what their company strategy and mission statement was and what they would do differently next time. The company with the most ‘money’ wins the game.
• Prizes are awarded for best presentation and most profit
  

Skills

• team player
• communication skills
• group work