Limerick students study viability of algae bio diesel for Stripe Young Scientist competition

THERE are three Stripe Young Scientist projects from Villiers Secondary School on the city's North Circular Road.

Second year students Aidan Hogan and Dawid Andralojc are entering a project, which is investigating how informed Irish adolescents today are in geographical and political matters. They are doing a direct comparison to a similar investigation in 1991.

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The project is in the social and behavioural sciences category. The group project is called A Study into Today’s Teenagers Political and Geographical Knowledge Compared to 1991.

Transition year student Hannah Marcus-Clancy is graphing the changes in the language used in Irish media between the pre-Covid years (2018 and 2019) and post-Covid years (2021, 2022 and 2025).

This individual project is under the social and behavioural sciences category. The project is titled: How did Covid infect our language?

The above two projects are focusing on demographic data for certain time periods, offering comparisons and studies of how things have changed.

Transition Year students Barry Wilmot, Rian Howlin and Sergio Martí Guerrero are investigating the feasibility of an algae-based biodiesel.

The group project is under the chemical, physical and mathematical sciences category.

It’s called ‘EcoFuel: Algae-powered biodiesel for sustainable energy.’

With ever-growing concern about climate change and fossil fuels, there is a drive towards sustainable, eco-friendly options, which this project is focusing on.