September 8, 2010.

Primary School Challenge 2010

23 primary schools with over 600 students took part in Enterprise Awareness workshops facilitated by Lena Shaw and sponsored by Louth County Enterprise Board.

Our aim is to show the students that the very things they learn at school every day and their inherent abilities can make them a successful businessperson. Making Primary School students aware of Enterprise puts them on the road to becoming the entrepreneurs and micro company owners of tomorrow. Students will realise they can run their own company, know they inherently are creative and innovative and realise the importance of teamwork and the need to complete tasks within a specified time.

All the students were given a gift pack and each school was asked to write a slogan: To Encourage Entrepreneurship In County Louth in not more than 10 words. Susan Farrelly Abbey Art Studios Reaghstown judged the slogans based on a matrix, namely key benefits to the county, location, positivity, trendiness and uniqueness.

Congratulations to Declan Gernon and Jack O’Brien St Peters N.S Dromiskin with winning slogan and logo ‘Sail your own ship! Entrepreneurship! The students in 6th class voted Declan & Jack as winning entries from their school and they received a craft piece commissioned by Joe Lawlor Drogheda on behalf of St Peters N.S Dromiskin.