8 CASTLEKNOCK GAZETTE 29 March 2012
EVENT The 11th annual Fingal Student Enterprise Awards
Dr Marie Griffen, CEO County Dublin VEC; Brendan Ryan, Labour Party TD for Dublin North; Joe Harford, chairperson, Fingal County Enterprise Board; Mayor of Fingal, Cllr Gerry McGuire and Oisin Geoghegan, CEO Fingal County Enterprise
Journalist Siobhan Brett, from the Sunday Business Post, who presented the award for runner-up in the junior category of the awards to students from Colaiste Choilm CBS
Sarah and Maura with MC Rick O’Shea
Brian Oh from Hartstown Community School with his
Andrew Ennis, Luke Sullivan, Gav Protacio and Killian Tol, winners in the Senior
project, The Clockworks
category for their enterprise, AFL Aid, with MC Rick O’ Shea from 2FM
At Fingal finals TUDENT enterprise was celebrated by eighteen secondary schools and nine primary schools recently at the Fingal Student Enterprise Awards which took place at the Crowne Plaza hotel in Blanchardstown. The event saw a record number of finalist companies, sixty in total, who competed for a share of the €10,000 prize fund. “This year’s Fingal Student Enterprise
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Awards will showcase our largest number of student entrepreneurs yet, highlighting a growing interest in enterprise amongst young people,” said Oisin Geoghegan, CEO of Fingal County Enterprise Board. “The key objective of the Fingal Student Enterprise programme is to encourage students to learn about the world of business so that they can discover the excitement and dynamism of running an enterprise.
Journalist Siobhan Brett, students Sarah Byrne and Maura O’ Callaghan and their teacher, Seamus McGowan, from Skerries Community College
David McCurtin, Shyan Gollapalli and Marcel Wasko,
Karina Severiuchina, Karolina Urbonaite and Victoria
from Portmarnock Community School, winners of
Les, from Blakestown Community School, winners in
the Innovation award for their project, Light Saver
the Intermediate category with MC Rick O’Shea