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Young Meath Business Whizzkids Top the Poll!!!
Monday 28 May 2007
Two teams from Co. Meath emerged with national titles at the 2007 final of the Student Enterprise Awards (SEA) which was held on Sunday, 13th May in the Tullamore Court Hotel.The SEA is sponsored nationally by the County & City Enterprise Boards and aims to give second level students the experience of setting and running a real business.
On Sunday, hundreds of students from all over the country displayed the results of months of hard work and vied to impress the panel of judges with their service or manufacturing business.
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Pic: Winners of the 2007 National Final of the County and City Enterprise Board's Student Enterprise Awards. Colm Gore and Seamus Crosbie, St. Patricks Classical School, Navan. Also in Photograph from left to right are Caroline Lynch and Tom Dowling, Meath County Enterprise Board; Ger Entight, Waterford County Enterprise Board; Padraig Doherty, St. Patricks National School, Navan and Eamon Ryan, Limerick City Enterprise Board.
The prize for the most outstanding enterprise in the Senior Category was scooped by Seamus Crosbie and Colm Gore from St. Patrick’s Classical Schoolin Navan. These two young businessmen, under the guidance of their teacher, Padraig Doherty, came up with the unique idea of designing, producing and marketing resources for Business Studies teachers in the form of A3 laminated posters which are ideal for display in the classroom. Both Grade A business students themselves, Colm & Seamus carried out methodical research into the questions Junior and Leaving Cert students continually answer incorrectly in their exams and designed the content of the posters around these. The sets of posters have been selling like hotcakes to business studies teachers all over the country. The prize includes a trophy, certificate, cash and an educational trip to Valencia in Spain.
Second prize in the Intermediate category was awarded to “Yummy”, a business set and run by Nicole Maguire & Eire Mc Namee, two second year students from St. Oliver Post Primary in Oldcastle under the guidance of their teacher, Elaine Smith. “Yummy” designed, produced and marketed a cookery book for children featuring healthy and fun recipes, which most importantly, don’t need too much adult supervision! Eire and Nicole had a fabulously eye-catching stand at the national final and impressed the judges with this and their excellent business report. They also won a cash prize along with a trophy and certificate.
Co. Meath was also represented in the Junior category by Olivia Duffy with her business “Nadur” which compiled and produced a book on local natural cures.
The prizes were awarded by “21 Demands”, runners up in this year’s “You’re a Star” competition and M.C. for the afternoon was 2fm D.J., Rick O’Shea.
Pic: Second place winners in the Internediate Category of the 2007 National Final of the County & City Enterprise Board's Student Enterprise Awards. Eire McNamee and Nicole Maguire, St. Olivers Post Primary School, Oldcastle. Also in photograph from left to right are Ger Enright, Waterford County Enterprise Board, Elaine Smith, St. Olivers Post Primary, Oldcastle and Eamon Ryan, Limerick City Enterprise Board.
The County and City Enterprise Boards are funded by the Irish Government and part-financed by the European Union under the National Development Plan 2007-2013.
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