Helping students live within means
Three Summerhill College students received a Special Recognition Award at the Foróige Youth Entrepreneur of the Year Awards held in the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland, Dublin.
The award was made to Davey Feeney, Tom Flanagan and Fraser Gaine who are founders of the business Kard in Sligo. Their business produced a discount student card to help secondary students live within their means. The boys were nominated by their CET Dervilla Casey, a teacher in Summerhill College.
Michael Munnelly and Conor Curley were also finalists for the Best Innovation Award for their business WSY ( What Suits You). WSY is a product recommendation service that finds the perfect product for the customer based on a number of questions. They also attend Summerhill College, Sligo.