Sean Dunne Trinity Access Programme Ambassadors Awards Announced
Posted on: 11 June 2008
Twenty-one student ambassadors were awarded certificates at the second annual awards ceremony of the Sean Dunne TAP Ambassadors Programme. The students were presented with bronze, silver and gold certificates by the Guest of Honour, Sean Dunne’s wife, Gayle Killilea on June 6th.
The Trinity Access Programmes are part of Trinity’s contribution to tackling social exclusion, through a range of innovative, targeted initiatives for individuals who, for socio-economic reasons, have not yet realised their full educational potential.
The TAP Ambassadors initiative is a formal programme for student involvement in the delivery of a wide range of TAP activities. Students are recruited as TAP Ambassadors and trained for a minimum of one year. This year seventy-two ambassadors volunteered to assist in running over twenty different TAP activities including: poetry and pictures workshops; student shadowing days; summer school; and the educational achievement awards.
The TAP Ambassadors Programme serves as a means of mobilising the energy of students and of providing them with a forum in which to engage with the wider city community in a spirit of volunteerism. The programme, which is sponsored by Sean Dunne and Gayle Killilea, has provided TAP with a vital support base of ambassadors, who are committed to supporting others in realising their full educational potential.
TAP Ambassador Aisling Brennan with Gayle Killilea.