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Enterprising schoolgirl makes money from exam notes
05.05.2010
Tammy Strickland from Dublin has turned her schoolwork into cash by selling her MindGenius study-maps to other pupils to help them through their exams. Following a four-month trial she has sold her 100th map, bringing sales to date to 1,000.
The teenager, who is a straight-A student, found the software so helpful in achieving excellent results that she has set up her business to share maps with other students sitting their Irish Junior Certificate exams.
Website up and running
Her father, Niall, is a long-term user of MindGenius and first introduced Tammy to mind-mapping when she was nine. When he saw how good her notes were, Niall commented that they were so good she could sell them. Tammy took him literally and set about refining her notes so others could use them while setting her dad the task of creating a website. Tammy had her site www.JuniorCertMindmaps.com up and running in no time.
Aside from selling 100 maps, the site has had more than 2,500 visitors and several hundred visitors have downloaded the sample maps. Tammy also leads an after-school geography study group at Mount Sackville School and uses mind-maps as the basis for her classes.
"Mind-maps created with MindGenius are a terrific aid to memory because they allow you to feed your brain in a way that allows you to effortlessly soak up knowledge. This can turn average students like me into high-achievers," she said.
The first subject to go live on the site was Science, which incorporates 57 different mind-maps. There are now ten key subjects available to download including Science, Business Studies, English, French, Geography, History, Irish, Religion and Science, Maths and CSPE (Civil Social and Political Education).
Photo: Tammy Strickland
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