An interactive computer pharmacy project for students has been expanded to schools across the West Midlands.

My Chemist was developed by the Coventry-based Women’s Business Development Agency (WBDA), Advantage West Midlands and the National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts.

The virtual computer game involves pupils carrying out market research, interviewing residents, making products and serving customers as well as understanding profit and loss to give them an early taste of entrepreneurship.

Year ten students from Fairfax School in Sutton Coldfield is the latest school to be involved in the scheme.

Sheridan Culverwell from WBDA said Rugby High School for Girls in Rugby, Hamstead Hall Community Learning Centre in Handsworth and Park View School in Birmingham had already completed My Chemist.

“My Chemist is an exciting way to teach enterprise in an interactive style because it combines creative talent and practical know-how while improving the understanding of enterprise,” she said.

“The students love it because the aim of the game is to make as much profit as possible at the end of a working week, giving the pupils an early taste of entrepreneurship and getting them to boost their competitive streak. WBDA aims to bring out the enterprising skills and attributes of the students and combined with practical knowledge teach them the how to set up a business with the creative flair necessary to stand out.”