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A TEAM of schoolboys who have set up an online resource to help fellow students with GCSE maths will represent Essex at the regional level of a national contest.
Team Apex, made up of seven King Edward VI Grammar School boys, returned triumphant from the Essex final of this year's Young Enterprise awards which sees students set up and run their own company for a year.
Apex impressed judges, themselves local businesspeople, with the running of their company www.apexmaths.com.
It's a website that gives students access to past GCSE papers, video tutorials and the offer of free online support.
KEGS student Ridwän Mahmood, managing director of Apex, said: "We're thrilled to have made it through to the next round and have our sights set on the top.
"The whole team are thoroughly enjoying the experience and we have all learnt a lot from it."
Joseph Langworthy, finance director, said: "The judges were really impressed with our profit margin of 86 per cent and our detailed knowledge of our financial performance."
Henry Sainsbury, assistant finance director, said: "The entire team has worked tirelessly for the past few months, working well together as a team, unified by one key aim – to go as far in the competition as we possibly can.
"We were all overjoyed to have our effort rewarded."
Apex, which also won the award for best company report, will now head to Cambridge on Thursday, June 18, to represent Essex in the east of England round.
If they win that, they are through to the national final.
Two companies from Chelmsford County High School for Girls were also award winners at the county final held at Anglia Ruskin University on Wednesday last week.
Winning the best presentation award was Titanium, a team of students who have compiled a spiral-bound pocket-sized book aimed at girls aged 10 to 11 packed with tips on issues they may face at this stage in their lives.
Finance director Sarina Mathew, 17, said: "We thought back to when we were that age, switching from primary to secondary school and wrote down a list of things we wished we had known then."
Fellow girls' school team Fusion won the best trade stand award. Their product, 'Stick 'Em Up', is a waterproof pouch with a triple zip-lock seal and velcro fold, and suction pad to hang in the bathroom.
A total of seven companies were represented at the county finals. All had to set up a trade stand, talk about their products to the judges and give a presentation on the way they have run their firm since setting it up in September last year.
Organiser Angela Phillips from Young Enterprise said: "Yet again the judges were very impressed by the high standards of the products, standards and company reports and the professional way in which the young people conducted themselves."
