Minco Competition! :)

On Thursday, 3rd March, we took part in our first mini company. The competition took place in the Clane Gaa Club hall. The competition was only inclusive of schools in the North Kildare district. There are nine mini company groups in our school.

We left the school first thing on Thursday morning. The bus journey was not long at all. When we got to Clane we only had a short amount of time to set our stands up, as the judges were starting at ten o' clock. It took us a while to get our board set up as our board was one of the older ones, which aren't as straight forward as the new ones. Luckily though, we had some of it prepared from the day before in school, so it was just a matter of clicking all the boards together and designing it with our posters, pictures, information etc.

The teachers had to leave the hall when the judges came in to the hall. Each group had an interview with one judge. It was quite nerve wracking when we were waiting for the judge to come around to our stand. A female judge interviewed us. When she came around, we each introduced ourselves and explained what our mini company was, before she started asking us questions. We had a good interview with her. We were able to answer all of the questions well with no hesitations.

At the very end of the judging, we were asked to start packing up our stands and equipment before they announced the companies that had been short listed for the kildare Final. We got everything packed up and put back on the bus in matter of minutes. We came back in to hear that six groups from our school had been short listed. The final decision was going to be made later that afternoon and an email would be sent to our teachers informing them of the judges final decisions. My group wasn't one of the groups that was shortlisted from our school but we were still happy with how well we had progressed with the company.

We got back to school just before lunch. Lucky for us, the school was off at lunchtime for a staff development day, so we got to go home after a few minutes.

Later on Thursday evening, the message was passed on from one girl to the next about the groups that got through to the final. We had four groups from our school; The Spoover, Knot a Problem, Baby Cakes and The Just Desserts.

I am really delighted for these groups as they are all four amazing set-ups. I wish them the very best of luck in the Kildare Final on the 14th of March.

Niamh! :D