Talent2Trade is focused on developing commercial design talent in students. It works through every stage of development from idea to marketable product.

Designed to fit into a six week period T2T provides a design brief and lesson plans and a 'Product Development Journal’ for each student. The T2T journal is intended to engage the student in profit and loss, costing, budgeting and market research along with the issues of sustainability, local/global citizenship and climate change. Read on

Shine week 2008 hailed as a great success see the evaluation here. Over 2,500 schools and organisations took part. Around 10,000 celebratory events took place under the shine banner. Around a million young people joined in the celebrations 10% of England's young people were involved. Over 2000 talents were uploaded to the website BBC Breakfast, News 24, The Sun, The Daily Mail and regional press and media loved the Shine story. See what they said here

Shine 6-10 July 2009. Put the dates in the diary now. Post your plans on your Shine page. Send your ideas, feedback and questions to info@shineweek.co.uk

Upload film, picture, sound and word files by registering with Shine now and help build the national wall of young people's talents!

We've finished making changes to the site so that you are now able to upload audio, video, image and written content.

Welcome to the Shine website. You can now officially register your school to be part of this fantastic national schools festival.