{"id":4292,"date":"2020-11-12T16:26:52","date_gmt":"2020-11-12T16:26:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/moatecs.com\/?p=4292"},"modified":"2020-11-12T16:26:52","modified_gmt":"2020-11-12T16:26:52","slug":"enterprise-at-moate-community-school-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moatecs.com\/enterprise-at-moate-community-school-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Enterprise at Moate Community School 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Enterprise at Moate Community School 2020<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Mini Company is a key element of first year, second year and Transition Year at Moate Community School. Entrepreneurship has never been more important to the Irish economy and Mini Company provides students with the opportunity to set up their own business. Students take their business from the idea stage, through market research to production, selling, record keeping and management.<\/p>\n<p>Last eight groups were chosen to represent the School at the County Finals which were held in Golden Island Shopping Centre on Thursday 12<sup>th<\/sup> March 2020. The county final was a very successful day for Moate Community School.\u00a0 Our school was selected at both Junior and Intermediate\u00a0 levels to represent Westmeath in the All Ireland Final in April. Those Junior Category winning group was \u2018Cosy Covers\u2019, ran by Ellen Raleigh, Lauren Finan, Skyla Looney, Kacey Mulvihill and Aine Broderick. The Intermediate winning group was \u2018TLC\u2019, ran by Lois David, Susan Dignan and Ava Kinahan.<\/p>\n<p>Both groups competed at the virtual All Ireland Final in April and \u2018Cosy Covers\u2019 was shortlisted and won \u2018The Most Commercially Viable Product\u2019. This was a huge achievement for the group and showed their commitment and hard work throughout 1<sup>st<\/sup> year. We are very proud of their achievement and hope to see them compete again in coming years.<\/p>\n<p>Mini Company is an excellent opportunity for students to start thinking about their future career, it also helps students become more creative and increases their self-confidence. It helps students to learn valuable lessons from the experience of working as part of a team and also enhances their communication skills.<\/p>\n<p>It is clear that there was a huge spirit of Enterprise this year in Moate Community School. This year we have Junior, Intermediate and Senior category mini company\u2019s getting ready to compete and continue our very successful school reputation in this competition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Enterprise at Moate Community School 2020 Mini Company is a key element of first year, second year and Transition Year [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4291,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[127],"tags":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moatecs.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/min-company.jpg?fit=1215%2C810&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moatecs.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4292"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/moatecs.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/moatecs.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moatecs.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moatecs.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4292"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/moatecs.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4292\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moatecs.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moatecs.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moatecs.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moatecs.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}