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Ríán Reilly, James Carson and Heidi Verry were crowned the winners today (credits: St Tiernans College Facebook page)
St Tiernans College have been crowned the winners of ‘Environmental Innovators’ programme.
Ríán Reilly, James Carson and Heidi Verry, alongside their teacher Mr Flynn, from the Crossmolina secondary school were named the winning group today at a ceremony in the Bord Bia Head Office in Dublin.
They previously had presented their propositions, but today they walked away National Champions and received a prize of €250 each.
‘Environmental Innovators’ is a nationwide transition year programme set up by Agri Aware and supported by BiOrbic Bioeconomy SFI Research Centre. Students are invited to investigate solutions to the various challenges that our global food system faces.
The programme consists of the four main chapters: Waste, Climate, Biodiversity and Land Use with interactive video, mapping and debate tasks offered throughout. The end-of-programme project task is for students to propose their own ideas for the world’s future food system.
Alan Jagoe, Agri Aware Chairman, said: “Ireland is a world leader in sustainably farmed food. Through this programme, Transition year students will have the opportunity to seek out further sustainable food solutions as the world changes.
The five finalists attend the BiOrbic Bioeconomy SFI Research Centre at University College Dublin to tour the facilities and to present their idea to agri-food stakeholders.
The programme ran for the first time last year, and despite it being a pilot year, over 7,500 students participated from 169 schools across Ireland.
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