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06 Sept 2025
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06 Sept 2025
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St Mel's College students Jared Weafer and Gerard Gerard Keogh are pictured with Mr Moore (Ag Science teacher), Ms Reynolds (Biology teacher) and Ms Dolan (Deputy Principal)
Congratulations to St Mel's College, Longford 5th year students, Gerard Keogh and Jared Weafer who qualified for the BT Young Scientist Exhibition 2024.
The title of their project is “Upcycling waste streams for agricultural use and protecting water sources” and is entered in the senior Biological and Ecological category.
This is a huge achievement as it is one of 550 projects that have been selected out of the 2000 projects that applied across Ireland. The students project looks at using industry waste to replace chemical fertiliser in Irish agriculture. This same industrial waste is currently being released into water sources causing pollution.
If this project finds that this waste can replace chemical fertiliser it could then eliminate the waste being released into water and reduce input costs on Irish farms.
Jared Weafer and Gerard Gerard Keogh are pictured with Mr Moore (Ag Science teacher), Ms Reynolds (Biology teacher) and Ms Dolan (Deputy Principal) and everyone at St Mel's College wish them every success and are so proud of their achievements thus far.
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