TAS Childrens Art Competition

I would just like to say that there has been a tremendous response from kids around Tullamore for the art competition! I went into Byrne's World of Wonder on Thursday to have a look, and there were some pictures already on display, with loads more to be added that day! A class from St. Joseph's school in Tullamore all submitted a picture each! There is some great work there from kids of all ages. To anyone in the area, its worth going in to have a look!

As the closing date was officially yesterday, we will still accept late entres (to the store) on Monday or Tuesday - hurry!

We will have details soon of when the Presentation Ceremony will take place.

Seanie.

I was told today that there are almost 100 entries altogether (so far)! Thats more than the Credit Union get every year for their art competition!

Seanie - major Kudos to TAS and your good self for organising this event. Its great to get the youngsters involved and it seems like you've had a phenomenal response. I really am delighted for you and want to say a big thanks for keeping this hobby going.

So a huge congratulations from me which I'm sure all the folks on the board will echo.

By the way, is there any chance you could post the winning images (or even all of them) to a website? I'm sure the kids would get a real kick out of knowing their work was on the net. I'll volunteer to help out in any way with scanning/processing etc and if required, I'd be delighted to donate some web space for free. And I'm sure the bigger kids here would also like to see the pics that would have beat them if you'd allowed their entries(Bll H, Dave Power... )

Three big cheers to TAS

Dave McD

Thanks a lot Dave! There is nothing stopping the likes of KAS and the rest of the clubs here doing something like this. In fact, I'd encourage it. Only good can come from it.

Michael suggested that we scan in all the pictures and create large thubmnails of them, and put them up on TAS's website. As there is a huge workload, we might call upon you and your offer Dave. Regarding webspace, we'll see how that goes along, but certainly on the scanning side, we'd like to share the workload! It is a great idea too, as links can be shared from e.g. Byrnes Group's own website, this site, any schools with websites that took part etc. Kids love to see their pictures displayed!

We'll keep you posted.

Seanie,

You can put me down for scanning too!

Seanie

I also second the praise and congrats heaped upon yourself and TAS. I think the art competition as a vehicle for promotion of Astronomy among kids is ideal. The success of your competition got me thinking that maybe it is something the World of Wonder franchise throughout Ireland would be interested in pursuing. This could be done in association with IFAS and the local astronomy clubs culminating in a grand All Ireland final...What do you think...would WorldofWonder be interested and would IFAS be interested...