A SUNDERLAND TEENAGER who won a merchandise design challenge set by SAFC Ladies Football Team has seen her entry go into production.
As part of this year’s Work Discovery Week event, a week of activities linking schools from across the city with businesses from across the region, young people were asked to create a new item of merchandise for the Lady Black Cats.
And it was the design by 13-year-old Bobbi Bunker from Hetton School which took first prize, beating off competition from schools across Sunderland with her design for a special cup.
The cups have now been produced and will go on sale priced at £5 at the Ladies home matches next season, or can currently be ordered on line at http://sunderland.fawsl.com/tickets
“We chose Bobbi as her design was bright and useful, she had considered the market and tailored her design to suit the team and the brief,” said Sonia Kulkarni, General Manager of SAFC Ladies.
“We are delighted that it’s now been produced and has gone on sale as part of our range of merchandise.”
The merchandise challenge was one of a numbers of activities which took place during Work Discovery Week, which includes a careers fair at the Stadium of Light, business visits, workshops, business problem solving challenges and a range of hands-on activities.
This year 21 schools and more than 1000 children from Sunderland were involved in the event, which is sponsored by organisations including Gentoo, the University of Sunderland, Sunderland College, Arriva, Nissan, SAFC and Sunderland City Council.
The event is now part of a wider Work Discovery Sunderland programme, which includes a range of sector days which showcases various careers within a particular industry and guest speaker days.
Work Discovery Week will also be taking place in 2016, running from June 27 to July 1.