Enterprise winners selected
WINNERS OF STUDENT ENTERPRISE PROGRAMME WILL REPRESENT WICKLOW
WICKLOW’S Student Enterprise Programme has found its winners, in a slightly different way than usual.
Over 1,100 students from secondary schools across the county have been taking part in the programme since last September. Teams from these schools had been preparing to compete in March’s County Final in Wicklow County Campus, Rathnew, at the end of last month where 45 teams were due to showcase their work and compete for a chance to represent Wicklow at national finals.
However, neither the county final nor the national final can take place this year due to current public health restrictions. Instead, the student enterprises which entered the competition organised by the Local Enterprise Office (LEO) Wicklow were judged on business reports and posters submitted online.
The winners in each category are as follows; senior category; TOT Hurlstands, Colaiste Bhride Carnew, students Maurice Tobin and Cian O’Tuama; junior category; Fore Coats, Colaiste Craobh Abhann, Kilcoole, students Hugh Donohue and Conor McConnell; intermediate category winner; Kearney Woodcraft, Avondale Community College, student Dale Kearney.
The runners up in the senior category were as follows: first runner up; Personalised Pups, St. Mary’s College, Arklow, Sophie Nuzum and Nicole Yau; second runner up CleanSole,
Colaiste Craobh Abhann, Kilcoole, Jeremiah Scott and Sean Lundy.
The category winners will go on to represent Wicklow in the national final, which will be taking place remotely in May.
Head of Enterprise at Local Enterprise Office Wicklow, Vibeke Delahunt said ‘It is very unfortunate that the participants in this years Student Enterprise programme have been unable to showcase their hard work at the county final however judging by the business reports submitted, the students have learned a great deal about entrepreneurship since September and we look forward to presenting the deserving winners with their awards once the current emergency is over. Entrepreneurs are agile business people with great resilience but businesses are significantly challenged by this current crisis which has far reaching effects.
The Local Enterprise Office are here to help entrepreneurs and small business during this difficult time with a range of supports all of which are detailed on our website www. localenterprise.ie/Wicklow and we can be reached by email at enterprise@leo.wicklowcoco.ie.’
Wicklow’s Student Enterprise Programme is part of the National Student Enterprise Programme and is coordinated locally by the Local Enterprise Office Wicklow.