Best of luck to all of our young entrepreneurs representing Balbriggan CC at the Student Enterprise Competition held in the Crowne Plaza in Hotel Blanchardstown today. You’re never too young to become an entrepreneur! TY Enterprise: Game Frame – Personalised frames. Budbands – Sweatband for holding earphones.   1st Year Enterprise: Petite Bijoux...Read More

A massive thank you to past pupil Jackie Wherity for delivering the JAI Success Skills programme to Ms. McGrath’s 5th Year Business class. The JAI Success Skills programme helps develop students’ interpersonal skills and problem-solving strategies necessary for the workplace. The programme ran for 40 minutes weekly for six weeks. It included activities to build...Read More

Second year Business students visited Caffrey’s Chocolate Factory today. The two hour tour which included a 25 minute film, explained in detail the story of chocolate and how cocoa beans are grown and harvested. The film showed the journey of cocoa beans from the Aztecs to the factory and the process cocoa beans go through...Read More

The Transition Year Enterprise group participated in the Enterprise in Action programme organised by Junior Achievement Ireland which encourages students to examine the role of an entrepreneur in today’s society. Students reviewed entrepreneurship and acknowledged the importance of developing entrepreneurial skills for future roles, as well as the value of ‘intrapreneurship’ and social entrepreneurship in today’s...Read More

Junior Achievement Ireland (JAI) encourages young people to remain in education and helps them develop the skills they need to succeed in a changing world. All Junior Achievement programmes are taught by business volunteers recruited from supporting organisations who are fully trained before they commence their programme. Mr. Alan Clarke from the National Asset Management Agency...Read More

The Fingal Student Enterprise Programme, which is an initiative of the Fingal Local Enterprise Office and Fingal County Council, is supported by the Dublin and Dún Laoghaire Education and Training Board (DDLETB). Congratulations to both teams who participated in the recent Student Enterprise Awards. Balbriggan Community College won the DDLETB Enterprising School Award. The Student Enterprise...Read More

Balbriggan CC is taking part in a new business challenge called ‘AIB Build a Bank’. Kerry footballing legend Colm ‘The Gouch’ Cooper came to the school to offically open the project and took the time to have a Q&A session with students on the world of Business. He also met with the top footballing Sportstars...Read More