Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 28 June 2022

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills

Young Social Innovators: Discussion

Mr. Darragh Rawson:

-----sexual harassment and sex trafficking. It took a long time debating and arguing but we put up a poll one day in mid-October or after and everyone voted. We decided that we would go with whichever one came out on top. Once we got the idea of "Be Aware, Don't Compare" we kept it going and the whole class got involved. Everyone loved the idea and we all thought it would work perfectly but we never thought we would be here today on the back of what we chose.

On the question on other schools, every other YSI project this year was amazing. We were looking at the mica project from the students in the Donegal school who were talking here last week. That project won the competition, and it was amazing. We were delighted to see them win it.