ECO-UNESCO Young Environmentalist Showcase & Awards Ceremony

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Mary Mullaghy 6 August 2012
Green teens from St. Josephs College, Athlone were crowned the 2012 Overall Senior ECO-UNESCO Young Environmentalists of the year for their ‘Wormery Works’ project with the 2012 Overall Junior Award scooped by teens from Our Lady & St. Patrick’s College, Belfast for the ‘The Big Tidy Up,’ at Awards Ceremony held in the Round Room of the Mansion House, in Dublin on 8th May.

In attendance were over 600 young people and special guests Ms. Frances Fitzgerald, Minister for Children Youth Affairs, Andrew Montague, Lord Mayor of Dublin and the youthful master of ceremonies, Stephen Byrne, RTÉ presenter. The group from St Joseph’s College Summerhill implemented a successful wormery and waste reduction campaign in their school. Thanks to their winning worms and inspiring awareness raising activities, this group is reducing waste in their school, supplying their organic garden with compost and setting an excellent environmental example for their peers and the public. The ‘Big Tidy Up’ from Our Lady and St. Patricks in Belfast, carried out an anti-litter campaign which reached global levels as they linked up with schools in Croatia and Washington.

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ECO-UNESCO Young Environmentalist Awards 2012

ECO-UNESCO’s Young Environmentalist Awardsis an all-Ireland environmental awards programme that recognises and rewards young people who raise environmental awareness and improve the environment and isopen to any group of young people between 10 – 18 years of age.

TIMELINE:
End of November 2011 Project registration deadline
End of February 2012 Project submission deadline
March & April 2012 ECO-Dens: Regional judging
May 2012 ECO-UNESCO Young Environmentalist Awards Showcase and Awards Ceremony

 

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