We’re delighted to announce 4D has been nominated in the MEN Business Of the Year Awards 2012.
The shortlist, released today, nominates twenty companies from across the Greater Manchester region and covers a diverse range of sectors and turnovers. As a company less than 3 years old, 4D are in the Young Business Of The Year category.
We recently welcomed judges from the awards to our offices at Hope Mill and showed them how our spaces are impacting on teaching and learning across the UK.
The awards night is hosted at Manchester Town Hall in November where we will find out if there will be another award to add to our trophy shelf!
Our creative director Cathy has been rewarded for all her hard work at 4D by winning a top business award!
The Enterprise Vision Awards have been created to recognise those ladies in the North West who are inspiring others by successfully running their own businesses or are at the forefront of their profession.
Cathy attended the awards on Friday night and we are delighted to say she won the Creative Industry Of The Year category for her vision and creativity in co-founding 4D.
In accepting the award, Cathy said:
“It’s really exciting to be recognised as a successful business woman in the Creative Industries, to have a business that has grown from a passion for doing things differently, changing the way we look at engaging young people and their learning.
Moving from artist/creative practitioner to running a successful business has meant that each day is a huge learning curve that continues to be exciting and terrifying in equal measure!
Winning this award has enabled me to have the confidence in my own abilities to keep moving forward and to believe in what we have achieved in such a short time”
Well done to all the other nominees and winners. We’ll find out if we can add another trophy to our office awards shelf when the Educator Investor awards are announced in November.
As 4D creative expand across the UK, we are looking to build a team of AV programmers and engineers to keep our immersive spaces inspiring young minds all year round.
You will be working on site to programme our unique teaching environments and providing our schools with top quality technical support.
We need people right across the UK, so if you have the know how and expertise, we want to hear from you.
For the full job description and details on how to apply, follow this link to download the job pack.
Cathy, our creative director, has been nominated for an Enterprise Vision Award and we need your help.
The overall winners are being chosen by a combination of public votes and an experienced judging panel. This is where we need you. To vote for Cathy, follow this link, pop in your email and hit ‘vote’. It’ll take thirty seconds and your help would be much appreciated. Every vote counts!
The awards have been set up to celebrate ladies of the north west who are championing entrepreneurial growth. Cathy’s been nominated in the creative industries category for her work in co-founding and developing 4D over the last 3 years.
Some great news hit the 4D office last Friday as the leading education business magazine, Education Investor, announced the nominations in their 2012 awards. We’re delighted to say we are down to the final five in the ‘Use of educational technology’ catagory and will find out if we have another trophy for the office in November at a swanky ceremony at the Hilton Park Lane.
The list of nominees is a varied and high quality selection so it’s great that we have been recognised alongside these companies. The full nominations can be found here.
Our latest installation was recently completed at Water Hall Primary in Milton Keynes. This is the furthest south of any 4D Immersive Space so far and is the start of us taking over the whole country!
Last week, we put down our keyboards, redirected the phone and headed out for a day of team building in Anglesey. The Conway Centre was our host and plays a key role in the history of 4D. It was here, as drama practitioners, that Ben and Cathy first met.
The day was firstly about planning and vision for the company, we spent some quality time mapping what we think is great about 4D and what could be improved. Secondly it was about creativity and team work including some fun times on the centre’s zip wire! Finally it was about BBQ-ing and board games.
It was great to get away and spend some quality time with each other and it’s also helped us hit the school summer holidays with a renewed focus. Here’s some pictures for your perusal. Big thanks to the Conway Centre Staff!
4D’s latest press coverage comes from Sustain Magazine. In this article, our creative director, Cathy discusses the increased demand for primary school places and the push for standardised school design brought in by the coalition government. There is also a spotlight on three of our spaces at Parklands CLC, Croxteth Primary and St Christopher’s Primary with lots of brilliant photos.
The full article can be read below (click on the image to make it full size!) For more information on Sustain Magazine, visit sustainmagazine.com
If you’d like to visit a 4D Immersive Space then just get in touch via our contact page and we will do the rest!
The Grange School in Manchester opened last week and we went down to see how the staff and pupils were using their brand new 4D Immersive Space.
The impressive new school in Gorton was officially opened by Councillor Afzal Khan from Manchester City Council, Paul Lake, an ambassador from Manchester City FC and the head of governors.
After the official opening and delicious buffet, there were full tours of the school including the immersive hall at the school. We had a great time meeting staff, pupils and guests of the school and heard about lots of brilliant lessons taking place already at the school.
We heard about a class being taken on an arctic exploration! The class got dressed in their warmest clothes and then ‘trekked’ from their classroom to the 4D immersive space. Greeting them was a wintery theme where they heard the story of Captain Scott’s last expedition to Antarctica.
It was also great to meet lots of pupils who love their new space. The roller coaster theme we installed on the 4D system is a massive hit to the extent that if pupils work hard in the lesson, they get the theme played as a reward! We had lots of requests for the theme during the afternoon.
Another pupil we met, Justin, is an animation whizz and we were lucky enough to see some of his work. The school are hoping that Justin’s animation will soon be shown on their giant projection screens. One of Justin’s animations can be seen below. We think it’s fantastic!
Overall, we had a great time at the opening. The staff and pupils made us feel very welcome and the new building is a fantastic new school which we are proud to be a part of.
Our new immersive space at St Kentigern’s Primary in Manchester is currently being built and is starting to grow into a fantastic new 4D Immersive Space. We’ve had lots of really exciting meetings with the school so far including inviting a group of students to visit our office to investigate our spaces.
After their visit, some of the pupils wrote to their governors telling them about our spaces and why they wanted one at St Kentigerns. Their persistance seems to have paid of as they will have their own 4D Immersive Space very soon!
Here’s a couple of the letters the pupils sent. They are now hanging up in our office!
