The presentation of the 3rd Annual Wood Marketing Federation (WMF) Awards for 3rd Level Students took place on recently at the Marriott Johnstown House Hotel, Enfield. The awards were presented by RTE television personality and architect, Duncan Stewart.

Cork IT student Seamus Moroney, from Clogher, O'Callaghan Mills, was short-listed for his project 'Moment Connections in Timer construction', in the Engineering section.

To reach the final was a fine achievement for the students when taking into account that over 100 projects were entered by students of engineering, architecture and design courses from third level institutions located in both the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland, using wood as the main element of their final year project.

Fifteen students were drawn for the finals from universities nationwide, including DIT Mountjoy Square Dublin, Bray PLC, Southern Regional College Lurgan, Galway Mayo Institute of Technology, NUIG, Queens University Belfast, Cork IT, UCD and the University of Ulster Jordanstown.

Speaking at the awards, Duncan Stewart spoke of the high standard of entries which had been received and thanked the WMF, all the students and their lecturers for their commitment to the competition. "This year's competition has been incredible. We have seen 15 projects at a very high standard and all the projects here today deserve to be winners." He also highlighted the need to carry out more research on the use of wood in Ireland, as the most valuable, renewable and sustainable material that can be used in areas like design, art and engineering.

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