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East Cork Direct,
Midleton CBS Secondary,
St. Marys Road, Midleton,
Co. Cork, Ireland.
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Phone:
(021)
631555
E-mail:
ecdirect@eircom.net
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EAST CORK DIRECT
WEB-SITE DESIGNERS
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Introduction
We at East Cork Direct, a young
enterprise mini-company, aim to design high-quality,
economically viable web-sites for businesses in
our locality. This site is a demonstration of our
skills.
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Company Profile
At the start of the
year, seven Midleton CBS, transition year
students came together to form E.C.Direct, a
Young Enterprise Ireland Mini-Company. Our idea,
web site design, was a highly original and
innovative product. We found our web-site design
marketplace by locating our target market at the
lower cost end, specifically identifying small
and medium sized businesses in the East Cork area
that desired web-sites but preferred not to pay
high prices charged by professionally established
web-site design companies. However there was one
major challenge which we had to overcome if our
innovative idea was to work. The challenge was to
learn how to design web sites to a high standard.
This was difficult but worthwhile in the end.
Once we had designed one site we started to
receive many demands for our services and this
has continued right up to the present.
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European
Championships
We here at East Cork Direct at happy
to announce that we recently finished first in
the All-Ireland Young Enterprise Mini-Company
Competition. We will now go on to represent our
country at the European Mini-Company
Championships in August at Hannover, Germany. click here to find out more>>>
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Midleton
CBS School
East Cork
Direct is run my students from fourth year
Midleton CBS. The school is a Christian Brothers
secondary school based in Midleton, a town in
county Cork, Ireland. The fourth year programme
we participated in is intended to give students a
year between the Junior and Leaving Certificate
programmes to mature. It has been restructured to
ensure students do not lose study habit while
retaining the T.Y.O. features. While students are
encouraged to take T.Y.O. we have left it
optional i.e. a Junior Cert pupil may proceed
directly to fifth year if he wishes.
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Mini-Company Programme
We are taking
part in a mini-company programme run by Young
Enterprise Ireland. The programme is designed to
give students real pratical learning experience.
They are tasked to set up their own company and
to produce a product or service and make a profit.
This is "learning by doing" as the
student learns from his mistakes and profits from
his success. click
here to find out more>>>
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