{"id":485,"date":"2012-09-10T19:17:45","date_gmt":"2012-09-10T19:17:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.earthsound.ie\/?p=485"},"modified":"2017-09-11T15:09:13","modified_gmt":"2017-09-11T15:09:13","slug":"youth-eco-challenge-claremorris-a-free-12-week-summer-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.earthsound.ie\/index.php\/2012\/09\/10\/youth-eco-challenge-claremorris-a-free-12-week-summer-school\/","title":{"rendered":"Youth Eco-Challenge Claremorris &#8211; A free 12 week Summer Event"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Earthsound directors James Bonsall and Heather Gimson have been\u00a0helping to\u00a0run\u00a0<\/span>Youth ECO-Challenge Claremorris &#8211;\u00a0<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">an environmental and heritage project at Mayfield Lake and Wetlands, Claremorris, Co. Mayo, Ireland &#8211; with Aine Carr of Clar I.R.D., artist Mary Noonan and Claremorris Community Radio. James, Heather and Aine recruited students from local schools and implemented the programme.<\/span><\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 530px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.clarird.com\/eco-challenge\/youth-eco-challenge.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"520\" height=\"121\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">This project has been funded with support from the European Commission. This publication [communication] reflects the views only of the author, and the Commission cannot be held responsible for any use which may be made of the information contained therein.<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> The twelve week project gave 15-17 year old students from St. Colman&#8217;s College and Mount Saint Michael Secondary School an opportunity to develop their own environmental awareness project in the Claremorris area through experiential learning. A range of activities were laid on and as the project developed the students created their own outputs via artwork, videos and podcasts that reflected their experiences.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The students also\u00a0<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">filmed a video of their efforts to transform a disused water reservoir (see video below) at the &#8216;Growing Locally&#8217; community garden. The work was carried out as part of a practical action project, supervised by local artist Mary Noonan.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"embed-vimeo\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/49228969\" width=\"1600\" height=\"900\" frameborder=\"0\" webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The programme was offered in co-operation with Claremorris Community Radio, Earthsound Archaeological Geophysics and Clar I.R.D., Claremorris.\u00a0<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It was funded by the LEARGAS European Commission&#8217;s Education and Culture Directorate General\u2019s &#8216;Youth in Action&#8217; Programme and ECO-UNESCO \u2018Clubs in Action\u2019 Programme sponsored by Toyota.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #003366;\">&copy; 2012 Earthsound Geophysics Ltd.<\/span><\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=EAG_Earthsound\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earthsound directors James Bonsall and Heather Gimson have been\u00a0helping to\u00a0run\u00a0Youth ECO-Challenge Claremorris &#8211;\u00a0an environmental and heritage project at Mayfield Lake and Wetlands, Claremorris, Co. Mayo, Ireland &#8211; with Aine Carr of Clar I.R.D., artist Mary Noonan and Claremorris Community Radio. James, Heather and Aine recruited students from local schools and implemented the programme. The twelve [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[16,9,7],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p99dil-7P","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.earthsound.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.earthsound.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.earthsound.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.earthsound.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.earthsound.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=485"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/www.earthsound.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1857,"href":"http:\/\/www.earthsound.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485\/revisions\/1857"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.earthsound.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.earthsound.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.earthsound.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}