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B4udecide.ie at the Young Social Innovators Annual Showcase

The b4udecide team attended the Young Social Innovators (YSI) Annual Showcase 2011.  You may have been lucky enough to receive a b4udecide t-shirt, sticker or highlighter promoting the website, www.b4udecide.ie.

Over 1,000 students from all over the country took our online quizzes and polls during the regional Speak Outs and the Annual Showcase.  The b4udecide website features quizzes, polls and video interviews with young people on relationships and dealing with peer pressure. The website also features experts talking about issues that can affect young people.

The HSE Crisis Pregnancy Programme sponsored a YSI challenge award called "Relationships & Sexual Health" this year. Congratulations to the winners of this award - St Angela’s College, Co Cork pictured below who won this award with their project "Because of You". The winning team wanted to promote positive relationships amongst teenagers and to demonstrate that all teenagers deserve to be treated well in a relationship. The aim was to raise awareness about abusive relationships and give people the courage to break away from unhealthy relationships.

Relationships & Sexual Health

Winner: "Because of You", St Angela’s College, Co Cork

This year we were delighted to see a large increase in projects examining relationships and sexual health matters.  Projects examined issues such as relationship pressures, sexual orientation, STI’s, teenage pregnancy, sex education and healthy and unhealthy relationships.

The HSE Crisis Pregnancy Programme was very impressed with all the projects and would like to say congratulations to all students who took part!

Other Winners included:

• Young Social Innovators of the Year 2011- “Divert Your Stride from Suicide” Mount Mercy College, Co Cork
• Runners-up: 2nd:  “Missing Persons” Davis College, College, Mallow, Co Cork
• 3rd:  “Under the Influence”, St Declan’s Community College, Kilmacthonas, Co Waterford      

Challenge Awards:

• Making our Country More Inclusive & Poverty Free- Winner:  “Actions Speak Louder than Words”, Our Lady’s College, Drogheda, Co Louth
• Making our World a Better Place for Young People- Winner:  “Sow the Seed, Sit and Read”, St. Pauls, Co Galway
• Making our World One World- Winner: “Youth Alive, Alert, Enthusiastic” Presentation College, Co Carlow
• Making our World Greener-Winner: “Let’s Get Greener”, Mercy College, Coolock, Co Dublin
• Making our World Safer -Winner: “Smooth Cycling” Mercy Heights, Skibbereen, Co Cork
• Making our World Fair & Just- Winner: “Reduce the Abuse”, Loreto Convent, Letterkenny, Co Donegal
• Making our World Healthier – Physical Health Award- Winner:  “C the Bright Side”, Coláiste Muire, Ennis, Co. Clare
• Making our World Healthier - Mental Health Award- Winner:  “I Swing that Way? St Columba’s Comprehensive School, Glenties, Co Donegal
• Relationships & Sexual Health- Winner: “Because of You”, St Angela’s College, Co Cork
• Making our Community Better-Winner: “I Need You”, Presentation College, Tuam, Co Galway
• YSI Step Up Challenge (for projects continuing over more than one year)-Winner:”Hope Square”, Presentation College, Tuam, Co Galway
• YSI Post-It (Poster) Challenge-Winner: “Homelessness”, Sacred Heart, Clonakility, Co Cork
• YSI Using Technology to Change the World for Good Challenge- Winner: “W.O.O.F. – Welfare of Our Furry Friends”, St Anne’s Secondary School, Rosanne Rd, Co Tipperary
• YSI Fun-Raising Challenge-Winner: “C the Bright Side”, Coláiste Muire, Ennis, Co. Clare