 The Dylan Thomas Cd is in four different languages |
The life and works of late poet Dylan Thomas has helped earn a group of students a place in the final of a European enterprise competition. Pupils from Ysgol Tregib in Llandeilo fly to Malta on Thursday to show off their virtual CD, picked as the best business idea from 3,500 UK schools.
Available in four different languages it has sold more than 300 copies.
Actor Neil Morrissey, who owns Browns Hotel featured on the disk, is set to officially launch the product.
 |  Just to get to the UK final was amazing - I can't wait until we fly out to Malta on Thursday  |
The youngsters set-up their company Underwood Visions to enter the CD in the annual Young Enterprise challenge.
The virtual tour features pupils reciting selected poems and stories in locations in west Wales associated with Thomas.
The multimedia CD, which includes verbal prompts and video, is available in English, Welsh, French and German and is suitable for both deaf and blind users.
As well as being sold locally it sparked interest in the Hay-on-Wye literary festival and is also being distributed through numerous Dylan Thomas Societies.
Managing director of the company, lower sixth form student Bethan Walsh, said: "We started thinking about in November but it took quite a long time to get copyright permission so we did not making it until January.
"There are 16 members of the company - a few members knew quite a lot about Dylan Thomas but not all of us.
"I don't think any of us thought it would be this successful.
 The students beat competition from 3,500 other schools |
"We mass produced 400. We have sold over 300. There has been such a demand for these CDs I think we will have to get some more made soon.
"Just to get to the UK final was amazing - I can't wait until we fly out to Malta on Thursday.
"I study business at A-level and it really has shown me the difference between studying in a classroom and running your own company and taking your own risks."
She said Neil Morrissey, who owns Browns Hotel in Laugharne, one of the poet's favourite watering holes, had agreed to officially launch the CD later in the summer.
Ysgol Tregib's deputy head teacher Tim Williams, said: "We are all overwhelmed that the school has won the Wales final three times and the UK title twice.
"The students worked really hard and deserve their success - but they were genuinely shocked when they heard the result."
Ysgol Tregib were presented with their UK award by the Minister for Small Business, Nigel Griffiths, and they visited 11 Downing Street - where they met the Chancellor Gordon Brown's wife and baby son John.
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