Young Enterprise team wins IT award

Quirktees is made up of eleven students and their business idea revolves around t-shirt manufacturing, as the team came up with a range of designs and puns and discovered a way of printing them out on pre-ordered T-shirts.

The team sold many T-shirts at the Castle & Towers Board North East Region trade fair in Ballymena’s Fairhill Shopping Centre. The centre was filled with determined Christmas shoppers, so it was important for the local team to make their business stand out.

They were able to start up a website: www.quirktees.co.uk and the public have been able to order the available T-shirts from the internet and suggest their ideas to them. The Wallace team have also been making custom T-shirts for people, which have sold well.

The team describe the website as a work-in progress as they are continually trying to make it easier for customers to use. The judges were very impressed by the website and their innovative skills regarding computers and therefore rewarded them with a prize for ‘The Best Use of IT’.

Quirktees is a growing business and the team aim to inform more people about their company and make a profit from their efforts.