TU Dublin Volunteering Award for Media Production & Digital Arts students
TU Dublin Volunteering Award for Media Production & Digital Arts students
Congratulations to six Media Production & Digital Arts students, members of the Tallaght Campus inter-disciplinary team awarded the 2024 TU Dublin Volunteering Award for the Most Creative Charitable Campaign for the Laura Lynn 3D Assist Programme.
Heather O'Connor, Lauren Creighton, Eve Lucas, Brandon McNamee, Nicola Ní Dháibhí and Molly Brady-Rice worked with students from Mechanical Engineering and Advertising & Marketing Communications to create and record a Hallowe’en with a difference for children in wheelchairs, who are currently in the Laura Lynn Hospice.
Students from all three programmes met with the children and their families to find out about the children's interest to design personal costumes that would resonate with them. Mechanical Engineering students 3D-modelled and designed the Hallowe’en costumes, and all three programmes helped paint and decorate the costumes for a parade held at the hospice.
The MPDA students captured the whole process and created a documentary piece now being used by Laura Lynn which was shown at the NTUTORR National event at Croke Park in April.
The team was also nominated for an award in the Union of Students in Ireland’s Student Achievement Awards Ireland. Open to students across the whole of Ireland, the awards 'celebrate the contribution students from across Ireland have made to the student community and Irish society in the past year'.