There were great celebrations in two Castlebar schools last week as Mariyah Zia Janjua from St Joseph’s Secondary School, and Team Envirobriq, from St Gerald’s College made it through to the national final of the Green Dragon Secondary Schools Innovation Challenge. These students really impressed the dragons at the Connacht/Ulster regional heat with their innovative ideas in the environmental category and will be hoping to do the same at the national final in Croke Park on March 26. Here they will battle it out with 25 other finalists in a bid to lay claim to the top prize of €8,000 in development funds to bring their idea to the market.
Now in its second year, the Agri Aware initiative which is supported by Bord Bia and AIB Bank, gives students the opportunity to bring their innovative ideas for the food, agriculture, or environmental sectors, from concept stage, to development of business and marketing plans, right up to pitching it in front of a professional panel of judges.
