STUDENTS from three Limerick city schools won awards at the first Green-Schools Travel Bus Stop Art competition where their work was displayed on five bus stops across the city. Six students from Catherine McAuley School, St Patrick’s BNS and St Patrick’s GNS won awards. The competition aimed to highlight local bus stops in the vicinity of schools and create a connection with public transport networks.
Three students from Catherine McAuley school were recognised for their excellence in the competition. Katie McDonnell’s winning entry was titled The Sensory Bus Stop, Emily O’Brien was awarded for her entry called The Solar Bus Stop and Rachel Mulcair-Joyce’s entry was recognised by the judges for her enthusiastic and creative design of an e-bus stop. Two students from St Patrick’s BNS won their school competition with creative interpretations of what they felt a bus stop of the future would be.
Robert Buca, a 4th class pupil, won the senior category in his school and wowed the judges with his interpretation of a bus stop of the future. Patrekur Fridriksson, 2nd class student in St. Patrick’s BNS, won the junior category in his school with his ‘healthy and bright bus stop’ design.
Junior category winner Carleigh Callanan, 1st class in St Patrick’s GNS, created an imaginative bus stop which looked like a fox, with a litter picking robot, solar panels and food and water for pets. Julia Lebecka, a 6th class pupil, presented a beautiful futuristic design surroun.
