Three School of Jewellery students create medals for the Commonwealth games.
The good news came in October 2021: Amber Tenzin-Dolma, Catarina Rodrigues Caeiro and Francesca Wilcox, all three students at the School of Jewellery at Birmingham City University, are the winner and runner-ups of a design competition for the medals of the 2022 Commonwealth Games.
“It's a great opportunity,” says Nyasa Hilliman.
The PR student and account executive for MSL represents the three winners.
"I think it's great that the Birmingham Commonwealth 2022 wanted to collaborate with the Birmingham School of Jewellery, wanting to give students a chance of this really big opportunity. It really shows how the city has come together, and really makes it about Birmingham and its community."
For the students it has been a very long process: “They entered the competition in January 2021 and it has been a process ever since."
Their lecturer Dauvit Alexander had advised them to apply to the competition that solely addressed School of Jewellery students.
In the end, Amber was chosen as the winner and it was decided that her peers would aid her in creating her design of the medal.
Nyasa has met the girls once in February and says that they have lovely personalities. She met them when the girls were doing voice-over work in preparation for the announcement of the medals.
Hilliman admits that due to everyone being students, communication has been brief.
She said: "We're all uni students in our third year, Amber has just graduated and she's working in the industry. I have given them information that they needed about what I'm trying to set up for them. I'm trying to set up a media training session for them to prepare them for the media they're going to be experiencing once it had been announced that they're the medalist designers for the Birmingham Commonwealth games."
The reveal of the final design can be expected later this spring.