Students worked together in mixed groups running their own chocolate companies, making decisions about money, raw materials, employing staff and marketing. After two days the winning group was announced as the team who had made the most money - some had even lost money!

As well as this, the groups had to compete in a negotiation exercise where one group had to sell a computer system to another group who wanted to buy it as cheaply as possible.

The students also worked against each other in the bric-a-brac exercise where the students had to use a series of raw materials such as plastic, foam, string and cotton reels to make products that shops might want to buy. Miss Wadland, Miss Munby and Mr Sizer played some of the shopkeepers the students tried to sell their wares to. Again, the winners were the group who made the most money.

The final exercise was an entrepreneurial game, where the groups had to design a new product and give a presentation about it and why it would be so useful. Products designed included a space travel agency, extendable high heels and a revolutionary racing car cog. The winning group, which included lots of Theale Green students, "invented" a crowd control spray, which relaxed would-be trouble makers and sent them to sleep.

All the students gained so much from the conference, including an insight into the workings of business, presentations, decision-making and working with students from other sixth forms.