Donegal students are proudly returning to schools across the county today with certificates and awards from the 55th BT Young Scientist & Technology Exhibition.
Local pupils enjoyed significant success at last week’s event, with 21 projects on display from nine schools in Donegal. There were two Special Award winners and three Category Award winners from the county.
Coláiste Ailigh Letterkenny student Oisín Ó Fearáin won the BT- Best Project in Irish Special Award for his study into: Staidéar ar cén glúin in Éirinn atá is gníomhach agus is eolach faoi athrú aeraide
Oisín also won Intermediate Individual 3rd place in the Social and Behavioural Sciences category.
BT Young Scientist and Technology Exhibition 2019 Awards Ceremony in the RDS Dublin.
Ruth Murphy, Legal Director, BT presents the Social and Behavioural Category Intermediate Individual 3rd place
Award to Oisin O Fearain from Colaiste Ailigh, Letterkenny, Co Donegal. Photo Chris Bellew / Fennell Photography 2019
The HP “Innovation4Good” Award was won by St Eunan’s College pupil Leo Camacho. Leo impressed the judges with his work on ‘Making Social Media a Better Place Using Artificial Intelligence’. Leo also took home the Intermediate Individual 1st place award in Technology.
BT Young Scientist and Technology Exhibition 2019 Awards Ceremony in the RDS Dublin.
Ruth Murphy, Legal Director, BT presents the Technology Intermediate Individual Category 1st place award to Leo Camacho, St Eunan’s College, Donegal for his project ‘Making Social Media a Better Place Using Artificial Intelligence’. Leo also received the Hewlett Packard Enterprise Award for the same project.
Photo Chris Bellew / Fennell Photography 2019
Ciara Gilmore from Carndonagh Community School was the winner of the Chemical, Physical & Mathematical Sciences Junior Individual 3rd place award.
Ciara put her thinking cap on to answer an age-old question: Will white wine remove red wine stains from clothing? She then investigated into the reaction which occurs when white wine is rubbed into a red wine stain.
BT Young Scientist and Technology Exhibition 2019 Awards Ceremony in the RDS Dublin.
Ruth Murphy, Legal Director, BT presents the Chemical, Physical and Mathematical Category Junior Individual 3rd place award to Ciara Gilmore, Carndonagh Community School, Donegal..
Photo Chris Bellew / Fennell Photography 2019
The overall winner of the BT Young Scientist & Technology Exhibition was Adam Kelly, aged 17, a 5th year student from Skerries Community College. Adam took home the top prize for his project entitled “Optimizing The Simulation Of General Quantum Circuits”.
Check out more photos from Donegal students and their projects at this year’s event below:
BT Young Scientist & Technology Exhibition.
Pictured is Shay Walsh, Managing Director, BT Ireland and Minister for Education and Skills Joe McHugh TD with teacher Donna Furey from Scoil Mhuire, Donegal and students Rachel Fletcher and Rory Coleman at the 55th BT Young Scientist and Technology Exhibition 2019 which took place in the RDS, Dublin.
Photo; Johnny Bambury/Fennells
Pictured are students Rachel Fletcher and Rory Colemen, from Scoil Mhuire Donegal, with their project ‘ A solar powered solution for the aquaponic growth of leafy crops in developing countries’, at the 55th BT Young Scientist & Technology Exhibition 2019.
Picture Colm Mahady / Fennell Photography 2019
A study of Magalev trams, which can travel as fast as airplanes, was the basis for the entry of pupils of Magh Ene College, Bundoran at the BT Young Scientist & Technology Exhibition at the RDS. Independent MEP Marian Harkin was a visitor to the project and discussed it with (L to R):- Niamh Carolan and Emma Birney.
Alfie Green & Kieran Glackin from Rosses Community School Co Donegal with their project ‘Pulling an all Fortniter’ at the 55th BT Young Scientist and Technology Exhibition 2019 which took place in the RDS in Dublin.
Photo Chris Bellew / Fennell Photography.
Anne Caulfield, Robin Turner and Amy Orr-Strain from Loreto Community School, Milford Co Donegal and their project ‘An Investigation into the Effects on Cognition of Sucrose, Fructose, Glucose, Saccharin and Caffeine’ at the 55th BT Young Scientist and Technology Exhibition 2019. Photo; Johnny Bambury/Fennells
Coláiste Ailigh’s Clodagh Ní Chonchúir is congratulated by school principal Micheál Ó Giobúin on her success at the BT Young Scientist. Clodagh was highly commended for her project on using saliva to diagnose dehydration. Also in photo are fellow students who also represented the school at the prestigious event. Ó clé: Aisling Rodriguez , Ella Nic an Bhreithiún Ní Ghallchóir, Caitlín Ní Giolla Chomhaill agus Iseult Ní Mhathúna.
