Wallace High School’s Young Enterprise Company “Hot Streak” scooped two awards at the Ballymena Trade Fair last week. The twenty strong company wowed the judges with their innovative product “Straight Safe” – a stand for hair straighteners.

Sales Director Amy White explained, “Our market research team explored various products and one of our members, Ruth Gamble, came up with the idea of a stand for straighteners. Nearly every pupil in school owns straighteners and all of those we interviewed reported issues with safety. Read the rest of this entry »