The Children ARE Our Future

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Wonderful morning spent viewing presentations from the future business leaders of Ireland which is part of Tech Week 2015 here at Dublin Castle.

Innovative Social Entrepreneur 2015 Finalists, six groups of children from Primary Schools, have been put to the test, Dragon’s Den Style. Among the judges were Ann Horan (Ryan Academy), Daniel Ramamoorthy (Government appointee for entrepreneurship) and Jean O’Sullivan of Enterprise Ireland and Jordan Casey – youngest app inventor for Apple when he was aged 9!

UCD Smurfit are proud sponsors of Bizworld programmes in local primary schools in Dublin. Masters of Business Administration participants take an active part in these programmes every year. MBA Participant Deepak Sharma mentored the winning team from Griffith Barracks multidenominational primary school.

Michael McDonnell ~ Specialist EMBA Programme Manager