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St Joseph’s School Ballybunion students, in front, Andrew O’Connor, Darragh Hanrahan, at back, Evan Mulcare and Adam O’Mahony with their entry ‘Custom Arcades Kerry’ at the Student Enterprise Awards in IT Tralee on Friday. Photo by Dermot Crean
THE County Final of the Kerry County Council Annual Student Enterprise Awards was held on Friday at IT Tralee and there was a very high standard of entries as always the year.
Outstanding participation levels saw 30 mini-businesses being set up by over 120 second level school students involved in the competition.
The competition promotes business idea development, structure, sourcing of finance, marketing/sales and the presentation of a formal business plan.
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Prizes were awarded at Junior, Intermediate and Senior level. The winners of the County Student Enterprise Awards in all categories go forward to the National Finals to be held in Croke Park on May 2.
The winners of the Senior Category was “S.T.E.M.” from Community College Killorglin. The winning student, Timothy McGrath developed a variety of products that enable youth to understand STEM Subjects.
The winner of the Intermediate Category was ‘Custom Arcades’ – retro arcade machines set up by Andrew O’Connor, Adam O’Mahony, Darragh Hanrahan and Evan Mulcare from St. Joseph’s Secondary School, Ballybunion.
Junior level winner was “Complete Comán” – a complete all in one training hurley set up by Fiona Brosnan, Joanne Moynihan, Chantelle Broderick, Katie Cotter & Tara Enright.
Other prizes were awarded for Tralee CBS student for Best Stand (‘Seán Óg & Cáit – Farm Safety Tales’) and Most Enterprising Project (Tight Fit Jerseys) and Best Social category was won by Presentation Tralee’s ‘Remain In My Head’.
Presentation Secondary School, Castleisland won the most Enterprising School Award for it’s work in fostering entrepreneurship within the school and was presented with the Cantillon Perpetual Cup.
Tomás Hayes, Head of Local Enterprise Office said “I am pleased to see the level of innovation, resourcefulness, planning and development of all 30 projects in this year’s awards. This is a real life exercise. It involves idea generation and actual trading. Profits are generated and finance is secured. It is a taste of business and all the issues involved from finding the right idea, funding the business, collecting the money and building the team. I must commend the teachers for their efforts and the mentors for their support. The judges had a very difficult task!” Scroll down for photos…
With their Waxy Wishes entry from St Brigid’s Killarney were Ana McGuire, Shannon Foster, Ciara Foran, Karis Koschan and Rebecca Walsh at the Student Enterprise Awards in IT Tralee on Friday. Photo by Dermot Crean
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Tralee CBS students Mike Carroll, Michael Kirby and Padraig Crean with entry Seán Óg & Cáit – Farm Safety Tales’ book at the Student Enterprise Awards in IT Tralee on Friday. Photo by Dermot Crean
Pobalscoil Chorca Dhuibhne students Christopher Kane, Colm Moriarty, Con O’Regan, Dylan Geaney and Sean Kennedy with their entry, ‘On And Off The Pitch’ a book about past and present Kerry footballers, at the Student Enterprise Awards in IT Tralee on Friday. Photo by Dermot Crean
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Tralee CBS students Sean Quilter, Darragh Reen and Michael Everett with their Tight Fit Jerseys entry at the Student Enterprise Awards in IT Tralee on Friday. Photo by Dermot Crean
Presentation Tralee students Bronagh Foley, Clodagh Begley, Orla O’Brien and Claudia Drzymala with their entry, ‘Binder Minder’ at the Student Enterprise Awards in IT Tralee on Friday. Photo by Dermot Crean
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Tralee CBS students, Brian O’Dowd, Conor Hayes and Ruairi O’Sullivan with their entry ‘Kingdom Explorer’ at the Student Enterprise Awards in IT Tralee on Friday. Photo by Dermot Crean
Presentation Tralee students Rachel Kilgallen, Kate Hennessy and Erin Moss with their entry ‘Remain In My Mind’ at the Student Enterprise Awards in IT Tralee on Friday. Photo by Dermot Crean
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Pobalscoil Chorca Dhuibhne students Nicole Lewis, Síomha Ní hAiniféin and Jenna Ferriter with their entry ‘Finsceálta Daite’ at the Student Enterprise Awards in IT Tralee on Friday. Photo by Dermot Crean
Castleisland Community College students Lucy Setterfield, Niall Fagan, Ruth Borgeat and Shane Fagan with their project ‘Up Cé’ at the Student Enterprise Awards in IT Tralee on Friday. Photo by Dermot Crean
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Presentation Secondary Milltown students Mike Griffin, Darragh O’Donoghue, Amber Pomeranz and Beth Hanley with their entry ‘Mayday Energy’ at the Student Enterprise Awards in IT Tralee on Friday. Photo by Dermot Crean
St Brigid’s Killarney students Emily Shaw. Aoife Guerin, Maeve Leane, Wiktoria Bankosz and Amy Cooper with their project ‘Bake Your Day’ at the Student Enterprise Awards in IT Tralee on Friday. Photo by Dermot Crean
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