Entrepreneurship students Jean Luc Mukiza, Elias Hfid Eriksen and Amalie Kristin Ødeby Asak from Skedsmo vgs have collaborated with Frode Bergheim and Jakub Galicki at NSI, to create the prototype.
The entrepreneurial students from “Squish it UB” at Skedsmo vgs have been helped by NSI to create a fully functional prototype.
Through their youth enterprise, vgs students have developed a convenient garbage compactor that everyone can get a passport to, under their kitchen counter.
“Most people have experienced that the garbage container fills up faster than the garbage disposal takes away. We want to do something about that. And then compressed garbage is a good and sustainable solution, says Amalie Kristin Ødeby Asak in Squish it.
Close cooperation between youth companies and established businesses is incredibly valuable, says Anette Gangnæs, CEO of Gründerhuset Business Lillestrøm.
This is a model project. It shows what happens when we connect talent, curiosity and professionals with a willingness to contribute. This creates learning, mastery and solutions that can actually be applied in the world outside the classroom,” says Gangnæs.
A different mission
General Manager Frode Bergheim at Norsk Stanseindustri — NSI thinks this has been a fun assignment: “It has been nice for us to show ourselves to students — also with a view to future recruitment,” he says with a smile.
“We at NSI got to be part of the jury during the Sharktank event with youth companies at Kunnskapsbyen. There we got acquainted with “Squish it”, which we think had a great idea. We therefore offered the students to collaborate on creating a professional prototype,” Bergheim says.
Now the prototype is ready. The students got to work with Jakub Galicki at NSI. He is a technical draftsman and created the production templates for a prototype, with a view to serial production. The manufacturing process itself required both laser cutting, bending, cutting, welding, varnishing and assembly.
Learning “in real life”
Amalie Kristin Ødeby Asak of Squish it UB is thrilled with the process they have been part of.
“We have learned a lot and have seen all the work behind the development work that NSI has helped us with. For us, it has been an experience to be able to collaborate with the business community on our product,” she says.
It has been a pleasure to work with the student to realize a professional prototype,” says Frode Bergheim.
There is too little real practice in school. Learning how the business world works is important. Pupils need a greater element of practical education. We believe that the investment in youth entrepreneurship is a good starting point for those who need to learn something other than theory,” he says.
Bergheim encourages other businesses to engage insimilar missions.
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