Curtis Cana, a former award-winning student and Enterprise intern at Gower College Swansea, recently returned to the Tycoch campus to inspire the next generation of Health & Social Care students.

As well as being named the college's overall Health & Social Care Student of the Year in 2015, Curtis - who volunteered as a youth worker for the local authority for many years - was also nominated as a Swansea Bay Young Achiever in recognition of his youth support work in Blaenymaes.

Gower College Swansea’s Enterprise Education Manager Sue Poole has been shortlisted for a major award which recognises her expertise and enthusiastic approach to the national enterprise agenda.

Organised by the team behind the Great British Entrepreneur Awards and the publishers of Fresh Business Thinking, the Entrepreneur Wales Awards is the only awards ceremony to acknowledge the hard work and inspiring stories of Welsh entrepreneurs and businesses in Wales.

Over 30 budding entrepreneurs from local schools attended a Gower College Swansea Enterprise Bootcamp last week.

Pupils from Pentrehafod and Gowerton Comprehensives joined college staff and students to participate in an action-packed week of activities that encouraged them to develop their entrepreneurial skills.

Working in teams, they were set a challenge by Kate Hannington, Centre Manager at the 360 Watersports Centre - to come up with ideas that would increase the participation of local young people at the venue throughout the year.

Entrepreneur and business mentor George Savva recently returned to Gower College Swansea to deliver an inspirational career workshop to Level 1 Art and Design students - a visit organised by the college's Enterprise Officer Lucy Turtle via the Welsh Government’s Big Ideas Role Model programme.

Local software entrepreneur - and former Gower College Swansea student - Adam Curtis returned to the Gorseinon campus recently to deliver an inspirational talk to vocational IT students.

Adam is a software developer who created and now manages the Clockwork Bear agency in addition to founding Hoowla, an online conveyancing software for solicitors. He specialises in creating bespoke software for new start-ups and helping companies build systems to manage their business processes and documents online.

Aspiring singers and musicians from Gower College Swansea were recently invited to a special acoustic competition, organised by student enterprise interns Shazia Ali, Rhys Cozens and Curtis Cana and Enterprise Officer Lucy Turtle.

Big Ideas role model and music industry expert Gill Taylor was invited to the Gorseinon campus to judge the competition.

Music Technology students from Gower College Swansea have attended a special workshop which allowed them to rub shoulders with industry professionals.

The ‘What’s Next in the Music Industry?’ event was hosted by NPTC Group (Neath campus).

Level 3 BTEC Engineering students from Gower College Swansea recently attended mock interview sessions with local employers at an event organised by the college's Enterprise Officer Lucy Turtle and Gareth Price from Career Wales.

“The main aims of this event were to prepare students for the world of work and provide advice and guidance on developing their CVs and interviewing skills,” said Lucy.

Among the employers were Tata Steel, Swansea University and the Armed Forces, who all gave structured feedback to the students after their interviews were complete.

A team of students from Gower College Swansea has scooped the Ian Bennett Award at the Global Enterprise Challenge Grand Final in Cardiff.

Vocational Creative Media students Kieran Palfrey, Talisha Weston and Oliver Draper and A Level students Brad David, Rhys Cozens, Shazia Ali and Josh David-Reed represented the college at the Wales Millennium Centre.

The Ian Bennett Award is given to the team voted as the 'most fun, most helpful and most supportive' by other students over the two day challenge.

Students from Gower College Swansea are heading to Cardiff next week to compete against all the other colleges in Wales for the Global Enterprise Challenge 2015.

Vocational Creative Media students Kieran Palfrey, Talisha Weston, Oliver Draper and A Level students Brad David, Rhys Cozens, Shazia Ali and Josh David-Reed were the winning team from the Gorseinon campus.

The Global Enterprise Challenge is a Welsh Government endorsed scheme designed to encourage entrepreneurial spirit and vision among young people.