Digital Leaders Award

Our school,  as lead school in our local Digital Learning Cluster, reached the final of a Tech Leaders competition run by it@cork.

We were shortlisted in the category “Excellence in Education” which was kindly sponsored by Trend Micro.

Teacher Liam Begley, who started the Cluster and is also teaching the new Leaving Cert Computer Science course in our school was joined by John Hurley to accept the award.

The citation mentioned that our school uses G Suite, giving all students access to email and cloud storage; Our implementation of Computer Studies as a Leaving Certificate Subject; Our success in the Astro Pi competition where students had experiments used on the International Space Station; and our involvement in the local Digital Learning Cluster.

The shortlisted Schools – Droichead na Banndan, Coláiste Éamonn Rís, Mayfield Community School
Mr. Hurley & Mr. Begley. Proud to accept the award on behalf of Mayfield Community school.