{"id":214765,"date":"2025-12-04T09:34:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-04T09:34:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/214765\/"},"modified":"2025-12-04T09:34:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-04T09:34:07","slug":"louth-teen-wins-global-entrepreneurship-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/214765\/","title":{"rendered":"Louth teen wins global entrepreneurship award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Co Louth teenager has become the first Irish winner of the Global Youth Entrepreneurship Challenge.<\/p>\n<p>16-year-old Carla McDonnell was selected to represent Ireland at the competition in New York after winning an award for innovation at the For\u00f3ige NFTE Youth Entrepreneurship Awards earlier this year.<\/p>\n<p>Her company, Vax Chill, is a portable cooling system designed to keep livestock vaccines at the correct temperature on farms, reducing spoilage.<\/p>\n<p>Carla, who attends St Louis Secondary School, plans to use the $5,000 (\u20ac4,280) prize money she won to further develop her business.<\/p>\n<p><b>Watch the video to find out more.<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Co Louth teenager has become the first Irish winner of the Global Youth Entrepreneurship Challenge. 16-year-old Carla&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":214766,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[178],"tags":[79,18,236,19,17],"class_list":{"0":"post-214765","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entrepreneurship","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-eire","10":"tag-entrepreneurship","11":"tag-ie","12":"tag-ireland"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115660617444093139","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214765","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=214765"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214765\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/214766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}