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Bolton Trust-DIT-Steorn Student Enterprise Competition
The final of this year's Bolton Trust-DIT-Steorn Student Enterprise Competition took place in DIT Aungier Street at the end of March. In a tightly-contested final, the winners were the RISSA team - five students in their third year of the BSc (Hons) in Product Design. Richard Gore, Alex McFadden, Valentine Nicosia, Stephen Walker and Siobhan O'Keeffe won the top prize of €5000 for their presentation of their product - "a new type of visor with a heating element demister".
This competition, which carries a total prize fund of €12,000, generates huge interest in DIT and this year attracted ninety entries from teams right across the Institute. These were reviewed by a panel of adjudicators who drew up an initial shortlist of thirty-two teams to participate in the quarter finals. Eight teams came through that stage to the semi-finals and eventually four made it through to the final stage. In addition to the first place prize of €5000, the second prize was €2,500, third prize was €1500 and fourth prize was €1000. Each of the four runner up teams were presented with a cheque for €500.