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Limerick student wins top environmental prize
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A LIMERICK transition year student has grabbed the climate topic prize in the popular school competition EPA’s The Story of Your Stuff.
Oonagh Hales, who is a transition year student in St. John’s Baptist School in Hospital, scored a winning prize in this environmental competition with her video about the lifespan of plastic cutlery.
The Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) The Story of your Stuff competition is now in its fifth year, with a record number of entries. The competition asks students to engage in storytelling around real environmental challenges.
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Search By Live95 News Team A County Limerick student has won a top prize for her video explaining the story of plastic cutlery.
Oonagh Hales from John the Baptist Community School took the Climatic prize for her entry in the EPA s The Story of Your Stuff 2021 competition.
Now in its fifth year, the competition hinges on story-telling around real environmental challenges and brings together curiosity, creativity and science.
Students are encouraged to consider the challenges to our environment, and contemplate how we might tackle them through modification of production and consumption practices for the everyday ‘stuff’ in our lives.
EPA competition encourages teens to become environmentally aware Published: Sunday, 17 January 2021 14:06
Secondary school students are being asked to become more aware of the environmental impact of their belongings.
The Story of Your Stuff competition is inviting teenagers from right across the region to investigate the life cycle of household items and present their findings in imaginative formats for a chance to win 500 euro vouchers.
Programme Manager of the Environmental Protection Agency Dr. Jonathan Derham says the project is ideal for students learning from home.
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The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has launched a competition to challenge students to investigate the life-cycle of their everyday ‘stuff’.
The competition, ‘The Story of Your Stuff’, asks students to address climate issues with creativity and also awards a special prize for Irish language entries.
Students are encouraged to consider answers to questions of environmental sustainability raised during the pandemic.
The competition is aimed at secondary school students. Entrants are tasked with researching the life-cycle of an everyday item or environmental impact of an activity, and creatively telling its story through a visual medium.
Now in its fifth year, the competition aims to get young people thinking about sustainability, climate action and environmental protection, spread the word among their friends and family and make lasting and impactful changes.