Location: Nationwide
Event Website: http://www.followthefleet.ie
Start Date: 01/01/2012
End Date: 05/04/2012
The Follow the Fleet education programme is an online teaching resource that brings the world of maritime trade and adventure alive for school children between the ages of 7 to 12. Follow the Fleet has recruited over 800 national schools with an estimated outreach to 28,000 primary school children registered to take part in the programme. This year the annual schools competition is sponsored by Irish Ferries and is also supported by Ardmore Shipping, BMCI Insurance & Investments and the Port of Cork. The competition will be centred around three key themes all of which are interlinked with the lessons and Captain’s logs published on the website. The competition is open to all primary school classes registered on the www.followthefleet.ie programme, the deadline for the competition is the 5th of April 2012. All details of the competition and entry forms are available on www.followthefleet.ie