Harry McCann will be our Guest of Honour at our annual Awards Ceremony in October
Harry McCann will be our Guest of Honour at our annual Awards Ceremony in October. Harry is a 15 year old Entrepreneur. He founded and now runs Kid Tech. He founded Kid Tech back in November 2013 with the aim to "Teach the next generation Tech". They have received the backing and support of Viddyad, Blackberry, Norah Casey and British actor Stephen Fry.
He also recently founded and now running the Digital Youth Council with the help of Ciaran Cannon, TD, and the Director of Galway Education Centre, Bernard Kirk. The Digital Youth Council is the first of its kind In Europe, comprising of some of the top young people in tech in Ireland, the Youth Council aims to give a voice to young people involved in technology in Ireland and provide them with a platform to influence the National Digital Strategy, and the future of technology in education There are currently twelve members of the Youth Council, listed here www.digitalyouthcouncil.com which will be the main body of the movement. The Digital Youth Councils partners include big names like RTE Digital and Twitter.
Kid Tech & Digital Youth Council has featured in Irish Tech News, Digital Times, Youth Media Team, Irish Times, Irish Examiner, Today FM, KFM, Siliconrepublic, The Digital Hub, Kidscreen, Kildare Post, NACD, Journal.ie, TechCentral & The Huffington Post. I have also appeared on the Tv programs RTE Morning Edition, 3e FYI and more.
He has also done some work for big organizations including RTE Digital, Twitter and more in the area of Technology.
Harry has spoken and given several Keynotes at many events, including WWC Belfast, DojoConNI, Mobile Monday Cork, Excited in Dublin Castle, The Young creators Celebration in the NACD and more. He has appeared in a promotion video for Vodafone & ESB for there new Fibre Network. He was also The Huffington Post Young Entrepreneur of the Week.
The 1st years completed a zombie lab today where they used their scientific methods and thinking to identify patient zero from the zombie suspects. Using measuring skills, pH, observation skills and much more they successfully identified the source of the outbreak!
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The TY Horticulture class were out in the Autumn sunshine planting Spring bulbs using the chaos planting method. This is when a multitude of different spring bulbs (Hyacinths, Daffodils, Tulips, Crocuses, Narcissi) are mixed together and randomly planted so that we have a mixture of flowers and patterns emerging in the spring. It mimics nature and so is more enticing to pollinators and native insects that need the food in Spring.
Stratford is celebrating Maths Week 2026 (12th - 18th October) with daily activities around the school, at breaktimes and in Maths classes! The tutor-time daily quiz is proving to be extremely competitive as each form group tries to solve it and then run to find Ms Matthews in order to win the box of chocolates!
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