A COMPANY set up by a teenager from Kildare that produces stickers to create designer-looking high heels has won the top prize at the Student Enterprise Awards national finals in Croke Park, Dublin.
Tara Haughton (16), the brains behind “Rosso Solini” and who attends Cross and Passion College in Kilcullen, won the senior category at the County and City Enterprise Boards’ student programme. Rosso Solini are red soles that are attached to high-heeled shoes to make them resemble big brands such those by French designer Christian Louboutain.
In the intermediate category, which features second- and third-year students, the students behind “Grian Dingle Peninsula Playing Cards”, from Pobal Scoil Corca Dhuibhne in Kerry, took the top prize.
The junior category overall prize went to Stirling Ó Mháirtín from “Awe Wish Ireland” bracelets in Dundalk Grammar School. More than 240 teenage entrepreneurs from secondary schools in every county competed. The programme saw about 15,000 students from 400 schools research, set up and manage their own real-life businesses.
