Teacher Aidan Burke of St Patrick's NS Tuam, pictured receiving the Financial Wizards award at the Junior Entrepreneur Programme All Ireland Showcase Day from Shane Corcoran, International Sales Manager of Tweak.com at the JEP National Showcase Day.

St Pat’s Quiz Book scoops national Junior Entrepreneur Award

TUAM’s next generation of entrepreneurial talent is thriving among the boys of St Pat’s Primary School who have scooped a national award at the Junior Entrepreneur National Showcase at the RDS this week.
The group of 46 boys won the Financial Wizard Award for the Beat the Quizmaster book they compiled and published, which went on to sell over 900 copies.
Every boy in the class has contributed a question to the book, which proved the most profitable winner among the ten national awards, generating a profit of €8,799 from €12,000 sales.
The boys were among 5,500 children to attend the Junior Entrepreneur Programme All Ireland Showcase Day at the RDS on Monday where they got to meet a host of leading entrepreneurs and media celebrities.

Read more in this week's edition of The Tuam Herald