Transition year students from Castleisland Community College, Shauna O’Keeffe, David Peskett, Mary-Kate Culhane and Pierce Flynn have won a National Design Team Competition 2022.
The competition celebrates, encourages and inspires the next generation of designers and the remit of the competition was to design a sustainable camping lamp.
Sustainable Camping Lamp
The students designed their sustainable camping lamp in Design Communication Graphics (DCG) class under the supervision of their teacher, Michael McSweeney.
There was a shortlist of eight teams for this final which took place online. The students compiled a power-point presentation for the final to explain their design.
As national winners the school won a Sindoh 3D printer sponsored by Solid Works and each team member won a €50 One4all voucher.
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