Enterprise Awards

The Fingal Student Enterprise Awards 2011  

Adrian, Saoirse, Coral, Liam and I went to the Fingal Enterprise Awards. We started the day off at 7.40am on Wednesday 16^th of March 2011.

The only good thing about getting up at that time is that is was fairly bright that morning.

 After that, we all headed up for school. After we got to school we all got on the bus and sat down. At the back the bus there were nine people from Skerries Community College. We then had to go to Eurospar to pick up some students from St. Joseph’s. Then we sat back and went to the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Blanchardstown.

When we got to The Crowne Plaza Hotel we went in and got settled. First we had to go upstairs and register our school. Second of all we had to set up our stall. And when we got everything done and dusted we had a look at other schools’ stalls, and we talked to some of the people from other schools.

By Seán

We were given our own display to set up our business poster and video. The board we put our poster on was 90 x 90 cm. Our poster nearly fit the board perfectly, but it was slightly too short. We set up a laptop presentation as part of our display. Saoirse, Liam and Adrian had prepared a video, showing our Fun Day in action.

After looking at all the other schools’ stalls, we came back to our display and rehearsed our answers to questions, sorted out a ‘Talking System’ which was who was talking at a certain time.

When the judges came to our stall, they were impressed. They themselves were experienced in business life so they were excellent judges. They asked us the similar questions to what we had prepared, so it went well.  Best of all, we were presented with a Student Enterprise grant of €200 to use for another enterprise based project.

By Coral

After the judges came around we went down to have something to eat in the hotel restaurant where we 
ate sandwiches and there was tea and coffee as well. After that we went back up to our stand and packed our stuff away. We then went in to the awards ceremony hosted by RTE 2FM’s Rick O’Shea. Rick opened the ceremony by telling a few jokes. And then the actual awards started. The first award of the day was the best display for the primary schools which was won by Mulhuddart National School and their product Book Buddies. The next few awards were all for the secondary schools. The overall winners of the secondary school awards was St. Fintan’s  from Sutton with their website www.2buildbacklinks.com Second prize in the secondary schools category went to St. Josephs from Rush for their product Mus’ Stash it. The final award of the day was for the primary schools overall winner which went to St. Oliver Plunkett from Malahide. Well done to all of the winners. Every student and teacher that came to the awards was given a raffle ticket for the draw which was held during the ceremony. The student’s prize was Kinect for the Xbox 360 and the prize for the teachers draw was a voucher for The Blanchardstown Shopping Centre near the hotel. Unfortunately none of us won anything. At the end of the day every student and teacher got a free Easter egg. We travelled home with everybody from Rush and Skerries and we got back at around 3:15.

By Liam & Adrian