Inspire and Motivate

To inspire and motivate young people to realise their potential by valuing education and understanding how to succeed in the world of work.

Inspire and Motivate

To inspire and motivate young people to realise their potential by valuing education and understanding how to succeed in the world of work.

Inspire and Motivate

To inspire and motivate young people to realise their potential by valuing education and understanding how to succeed in the world of work.

Inspire and Motivate

To inspire and motivate young people to realise their potential by valuing education and understanding how to succeed in the world of work.

Inspire and Motivate

To inspire and motivate young people to realise their potential by valuing education and understanding how to succeed in the world of work.

Inspire and Motivate

To inspire and motivate young people to realise their potential by valuing education and understanding how to succeed in the world of work.

The Regional Finals of Junior Achievement’s Company of The Year Competition is sponsored by the Chartered Accountants Ireland; sixty budding teenage entrepreneurs took part in Regional Finals all across the county.

2500 students nationwide participated in the Company of the year Competition. Two winning secondary school teams from each region go through to the National Final on 1st and 2nd of May and the ultimate prize is winning the JA European Company Competition in London, England in July 2013.

There were three awards in total presented at each Regional Final:

Leinster:

The Finance Award, presented by Colm Malone, Chartered Accountants Ireland Leinster Society, was won by St. Mary’s Secondary School, New Ross, Co. Wexford with their company ‘EVIDE’ .

Two Leinster Regional winners were announced by Kevin Leonard, European Insurance Manager, CIT and Helena O’Malley, Quality Systems Manager, Xilinx.

Athlone Community College, Co. Westmeath took one place with their innovative product ‘Word Bank’ a word/picture book for autistic children and from Ardscoil Na Trionoide, Athy, Co. Kildare with their company ‘Clink N' Light’ a portable light device for changing your car tyre, took the other place.

Munster:

The Finance Award, presented by Brian O'Leary, Chartered Accountants Ireland Munster Society, was won by De La Salle, Co. Waterford with their company ‘Retrack’.

Two Munster Regional winners were announced by Denise Mangan-Fahy, Vice President, Engine Management at GE Capital Aviation Services and Frank Buckley, Director of Resource Planning Management at RCI.

Salesian Secondary College, Sligo took one place with their innovative product ‘F.A.R.M’ a cow tail lifter and from C.B.S. Carrick on Suir, Tipperary with their company ‘RDF Wood Enterprise’, various wooden products.

Connaught:

The Finance Award, presented by Garrett McCarty, Chartered Accountants Ireland Leinster Society, was won by St. Columba's College, Co. Donegal with their company ‘Key'd In’.

Two Connaught Regional winners were announced by Dolores McDonagh Community and Enterprise, Sligo County Council, Emer Conroy from LoutusWorks and Vivienne Galvin Abbott Ireland, MY HR Team.

St. Columba's College, Co. Donegal took one place with their product ‘Bright Sparks’ a science pack for primary school students  and from Pobalscoil Ghaoth Dobhair, Co. Donegal with their company ‘Number Ninjas’ a Junior Cert revision book to help with maths.

Border Counties:

The Finance Award, presented by Colm Malone Chartered Accountants Ireland, Leinster Society, was won by Loreto College, Cavan, with their company ‘Go Global’.

Two Border County Regional winners were announced by Beech Hill College, Co. Monaghan took one place with their product ‘Pop Up Doll House’ a dolls house that can be designed and made by children and Loreto College, Cavan, with their company ‘Go Global’ wrist bands with universal symbols to help tourists when abroad.

Junior Achievement is a non-profit organisation working as a partnership between the business community and the education sector, providing a range of enterprise programmes to young people aged 5 – 18 years. The twin aims of Junior Achievement are to teach enterprise and life skills to young people and to target those at risk of early school leaving. In the 2012/13 school year 70,000 young people will benefit from a JA programme. 

Chartered Acc Ireland logoThe Company of The Year Regional Finals will be taking place around the country and are kindly sponsored by Chartered Accountants Ireland

Chartered Accountants Ireland will present a Finance Award at each event to the company that shows best business accounting.

Two lucky business groups from each Region will go on to compete at the National Finals on 1st and 2nd of May 2013.

leinster Trade Fair 2013 no. 2

Leinster

14th March

Chartered Accountants Ireland, Dublin 2

Border Counties

20th March

 

Corcaghan Hall, Monaghan

Connaught

21st March

IT Sligo

Munster

21st March

CIT, Cork

Almost 20% of young people in Ireland leave school with no qualifications.  Many others fail to realise their potential because they don't see a future for themselves in the working world.

With the support of more than 150 leading organisations, Junior Achievement Ireland brings business into the classroom in 600 primary and secondary schools nationwide.  Our structured enterprise, science, maths and life skills programmes are delivered by our team of 3,000 business volunteers, reaching out to over 70,000 students each year!

We're making enterprise an exciting part of school life and inspiring and motivating young people to make the most of their education.

Young people dream big dreams - let's help them get on the road to realising them!

BT Young Scientist 1Over 7,200 students visited the Junior Achievement CSI stand at BT Young Scientist & Technology Exhibition 2013.  Primary, Secondary students as well as their teachers and parents studied fingerprints and learned a lot about Crime Scene Investigations. 

The JA CSI stand has become a popular fixture over the four years it has featured, thanks to BT’s generosity.  Hundreds of students told us it’s the top of their list each year!

 

 

 

JA European Company of Year, Sign4Life, played a starring role on The Late Late Show's feature on young innovation and enterprise. 

S4L  Ryan 2

The team - Ciara Reidy, Caoimhe O’Neill, Colleen Mullane, Chris O’Brien and Fiona Mangan - won European Company of the Year in Bucharest, beating off stiff opposition from 32 other countries. Sign4Life teaches sign language through a smartphone application and is designed to bridge the gap between the hearing and deaf communities.

While in Europe the team from Salesian Secondary College, Pallaskenry, Co. Limerick  was invited to roll out the app in several European languages. Watch this space!

More Articles...

  1. Launch of Our World

Page 1 of 2

Our Supporters

cp button