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06 Sept 2025

St Columba’s students use design thinking to create some fantastic products

Transition Year students from the Glenties school took part in an Innovating Communities course

St Columba’s students use design thinking to create some fantastic products

Course facilitators Tony Kerrigan – Ice Cream Architecture and Eamonn Bonner DLDC with the students who created the GAP magazine

TY students from the Glenties Comprehensive recently completed an Innovating Communities course in Design Thinking. 

The 47 students worked in two groups with facilitators from Ice Cream Architecture and Donegal Local Development Company (DLDC). The end result was an online students’ magazine and a mobile phone Sports App.

The content of the online applications was written entirely by the students themselves and covered items such as sport, sports training and competing, dealing with injuries and teamwork. 

The magazine covered social justice issues, local businesses. lifestyle, fashion, and foods.

Innovating Communities is a LEADER Cooperation project delivered by DLDC in Donegal which aims to strengthen resilience, local development, and community-led action by training community groups, businesses and individuals in Design Thinking, a creative problem- solving process.

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