TO NURTURE creative and entrepreneurial skills will be the quest for post-primary students this June with the return of an annual free programme.
The Empower programme, created by Mary Immaculate College (MIC) and Technological University of the Shannon (TUS), will see school students search for solutions to current local and global challenges.
The free programme, running in Limerick from June 6-9, will be returning for its seventh year and by the end, will have participants present their business idea to be in with a chance to win prizes across categories including Overall Winner, Best Innovation and Most Creative Pitch.
While Empower challenges students to work in teams and think innovatively, an “important” part of the programme is also to “have fun” and “meet new people”, according to Trish O’Sullivan, Enterprise and Community Engagement…
