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Thursday, 8th


December 2016 The Legends of the Cork Showbands Era Was Launched in Midleton


• Launch


Legends of Cork Showband Era will be Rolling back the Years in The Midleton Park Hotel on Sunday 11 December.


Art Supple, Patrick Shields, General Manager Midleton Park Hotel and John Coleman, East Cork Journal. (Picture: Ger Bonus).


• Sean O’Sullivan, Coordinator and Diane Harrington, East Cork Journal. (Picture: Ger Bonus).


• Robert and Melissa Hanrahan, ‘Diva Sensations’ (Picture: Ger Bonus).


• Art Supple, The Victors; Mary and Derek Burke, Crystal Swing and Shane Supple. (Picture: Ger Bonus).


The Legends of the


Cork Showbands will be rolling back the years at the Midleton Park Hotel on Sunday 11 December at 8pm. Tickets at €25 available from the Mid- leton Park Hotel 021 463


5100. Memories of famous hall nights will


dance


come flooding back on the night, from the Arcadia to Redbarn in Youghal to the Lilac in Enniskeane to the Majorca in Cross-


• Catherine O’Connell, Diane Harrington, East Cork Journal; Mary Murray-Burke, Crystal Swing and Melissa Hanrahan, ‘Diva Sensations’; Madge Fogarty, Vice Chairperson Glanmire Community Association and Liz Hanrahan (Picture: Ger Bonus).


haven and the Stardust on the Grand Parade. It is a historic occasion on Sunday 11 December, not to be missed with the legendary Art Supple of the Victors, Joe Mac from the Dixies, a tribute to the


late great Cork stars such as Brendan O’Brien and Glenn Curtin. Terry Mc- Carthy with his beautiful voice from the Dixies and the very famous Tony Ste- vens. The wonderful East


Cork trio Crystal Swing – Derek, Dervla and Mary will be performing on the night. A show not to be missed! MC for the show is the


fantastic John Greene from C103. Dancing to


Glanmire Community College Announced As Winners of CEIA Development Competition


ists. Teams were asked to create their App using the MIT App Inventor – a beginner’s introduction to programming and app cre- ation that transforms code into visual, drag-and-drop building blocks,” said Dr Eamon Connolly, Electri- cal and Electronic Engi- neering Promotion Officer, CEIA.


Colasite


• Ana Cruceann, Jennifer Johnston, Brian Long, Aden Dunne Caylon Maher and Ruth Whelan from Glanmire Community College as the winning team with Judges Brian English, Head of Software Development, Robiac Technologies;


Michelle Donovan, Chief Operations Officer at Voxtake; Harry Moran, 17-year old tech entrepreneur. (Pic Darragh Kane).


Teams of Transition


Year students from schools across Cork presented their Apps to judges as part of the final of the CEIA’s App development


programme


– SySTEM. Based on the logic of George Boole, SySTEM required teams of students to develop an App for a game incorpo-


rating the true and false values of Boolean logic. Following careful deliber- ation, the CEIA – Cork’s technology network – to- day (Thursday) announced Glanmire College


Community from as overall


winner for their app ‘Are you codding me?’ The App created by Gl-


anmire Community Col- lege, ‘Are You Codding Me?’, is an educational re- flex game that teaches the user about the dangers of overfishing in Ireland. The game has 5 different fish species that


resemble en-


dangered fish in Ireland. If the user catches an endan- gered fish, they receive a


negative score – but if they catch a common fish they receive a positive score. “We would like to con- team Glanmire on


gratulate Community College


their win today. SySTEM is a new programme for us in the CEIA, and we are absolutely thrilled with the standard of our final-


Tel: 021 463 8000 • Email: info@eastcorkjournal.ie • Web: www.eastcorkjournal.ie an Chraiob-


hin, Fermoy took home an award for best functionality for their App ‘SkyClimb’, while


Colaiste an Chroi


Naofa, Carraig Na Bhfear ‘PebbleBlast’ won best marketing plan. Students from St Brogans College in Bandon took home the award for best design for their App ‘Paddy’s Panic Run’.


“Each team had to cre-


ate a game concept and assign roles to team mem- bers including project manager, app developer, graphic designer and sales and marketing. I would like to take


this opportunity to congratulate all of the


the Diva Sensations from 11pm to late. Book Now – tickets sell-


ing fast at €25.00 available from the Midleton Park Hotel 021 463 5100. Special BandB rate in- cluding breakfast is availa-


participating teams, each one showed excellent skill and creativity in the devel- opment of their Apps,” he added. The CEIA provided


training workshops for participating teachers and students over the course of the programme on Pro- gramming, Design, project management and presenta- tion skills, as well as indi- vidual team mentors from companies including John- son Controls, CIX, Horner APG, Cork Training Cen- tre, CIT Boston Scientific and Tyndall National In- stitute. Each industry men- tor


provided their team


with support and industry knowledge from the begin- ning of the App develop- ment programme, right up to the competition final. “This is the first year of


the programme and the level of interest we have had from schools and teachers, but also from in- dustry, has been incredible. We would like to sincerely thank our incredible indus- try mentors for devoting their time and energy to the programme over the past 12 weeks. We would also like to thank our judg- es – Brian English, Head


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ble for the show only at the Hotel on 021 463 5100. The Show will also be


playing at the Rochestown Park Hotel Cork on Wom- en’s Little Christmas Fri- day 6 January 2017. Watch this Space.


of Software Development, Robiac Technologies; Mi- chelle Donovan, Chief Operations Officer at Vox- take and Harry Moran, 17- year old tech entrepreneur, for their time and dedica- tion to the programme,” said Valerie Cowman, Skills and Education Chair of the CEIA.


“Coding has never been so important and we think that SySTEM is a fantas- tic and innovative way of showcasing IT, STEM and engineering as exciting and interesting career options to the next generation. Due to the phenomenal success of the programme, we hope to expand it even further next year to include even more schools,” she added. The CEIA Skills and Ed-


ucation Group promotes STEM education to stu- dents from the ages of 10- 18 through programmes such as the SySTEM App competition, CANSAT competition, maths tuto- rials linked to the leaving cert curriculum, Discover Science


workshops and


other events. Further in- formation is available on the CEIA website www. ceia.ie.


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