Ireland: Results of the World Education Games 2012
Participation of Irish schools in the World Education Games 2012 has been the highest ever – see the table below for some statistics on participation.
The highest participation was on World Maths Day, followed by World Spelling Day and World Science Day. Considering that World Science Day was in its first year, this was a wonderful result!
| Ireland Participation | World Maths Day | World Spelling Day | World Science Day |
| Cities/Towns participating | 150 | 135 | 86 |
| Schools participating | 506 | 414 | 219 |
| Classrooms participating | 1,823 | 1,168 | 438 |
| Total participants | 16,638 | 8,109 | 1,918 |
| Questions correctly answered | 3,977,472 | 1,048,965 | 41,491 |
| Questions attempted | 4,326,353 | 1,216,373 | 81,641 |
| Total games played | 248,248 | 107,135 | 13,869 |
The Results from the Games have been verified and CJ Fallon representatives have notified all individuals and class groups. The winners received either a silver Olympic style medal or a framed certificate.
If you are one of these winners, individual or group and you would like to send us a picture (having received permission from parent/teacher/guardian), with your medal or certificate, stating your name/class/school/teacher name and the category in which you have won, then we would be delighted to put it up on our website.
Below see Miss O Flaherty’s 4th class, Scoil Mhuire Girls NS, Clondalkin, Dublin 22: the proud winners and 1st in Ireland in the 8-10yr old section in Spelling, on World Spelling Day. Well done girls, all your practicing and hard work paid off!
Well done to all the winners and a big thank you and congratulations from all at CJ Fallon to all the participants!