Donegal students bagged 13 prizes at the BT Young Scientist & Technology exhibition in a year where over 1,000 students battled it out for coveted prizes. Coláiste Ailigh won six awards with Abbey Vocational School and Carndonagh Community School picking up two each. The remainder were shared between Loreto Community School, St Columba’s Comprehensive School and Coláiste Cholmcille. Lórcan Ó Fearáil from Coláiste Ailigh won two awards for his project, Le dó nó gan a dó, to burn or not to burn, he was awarded junior individual and also won in the category of display project. Caolan Mc Taggart, Matthew O’Farrell and Daithi Mac Diarmada from Coláist Ailigh won an award for junior group with their project An bfhuil tionchar ag ardaithe costas bhreosla ar an cinneadh fuinneamh in athnuaite a úsaid sa teach? Does the increased cost of fuel have an impact in using renewable energy in homes? Megan Ni Bhroin, Síomha Nic Séain, Róise Ní Bhaoill also from the Letterkenny-based school were also highly recommended with their project Fiosrú ar éifeacht lus an phiobair ar luas freagartha i ndéagóirí as was Saoirse Gallagher, Sienna Devine, Aimee Quinlivan with their project An bhfuil dírítheoirí gruaige ag déanamh do ghruaig níos laige? Are hair straighteners weakening your hair? Their project also won in the category of Display Project. Michael Masterson from Abbey Vocational School with his project 'Back Air Gravitational Support -BAGS' at the BT Young Scientist & Technology Exhibition 2023 in the RDS Dublin. Photos: Chris Bellew / Fennell Photography The Abbey Vocational School students were highly commended in two categories, the Biological & Ecological and Chemical, Physical & Mathematical Sciences. Jack Hannigan presented the project Seasonal variation in the antimicrobial activity of native Irish seaweeds which was highly commended. Samaire Fern’s project What colour is pi? An analysis of patterns in the visible representation of number sequences using colours observed by people

placeholder image — Donegal students bagged 13 prizes at the BT Young Scientist & Technology exhibition in a year where over 1,000 students battled it out for coveted prizes. Coláiste Ailigh won six awards with Abbey Vocational School and Carndonagh Community School picking up two each. The remainder were shared between Loreto Community School, St Columba’s Comprehensive School and Coláiste Cholmcille. Lórcan Ó Fearáil from Coláiste Ailigh won two awards for his project, Le dó nó gan a dó, to burn or not to burn, he was awarded junior individual and also won in the category of display project. Caolan Mc Taggart, Matthew O’Farrell and Daithi Mac Diarmada from Coláist Ailigh won an award for junior group with their project An bfhuil tionchar ag ardaithe costas bhreosla ar an cinneadh fuinneamh in athnuaite a úsaid sa teach? Does the increased cost of fuel have an impact in using renewable energy in homes? Megan Ni Bhroin, Síomha Nic Séain, Róise Ní Bhaoill also from the Letterkenny-based school were also highly recommended with their project Fiosrú ar éifeacht lus an phiobair ar luas freagartha i ndéagóirí as was Saoirse Gallagher, Sienna Devine, Aimee Quinlivan with their project An bhfuil dírítheoirí gruaige ag déanamh do ghruaig níos laige? Are hair straighteners weakening your hair? Their project also won in the category of Display Project. Michael Masterson from Abbey Vocational School with his project 'Back Air Gravitational Support -BAGS' at the BT Young Scientist & Technology Exhibition 2023 in the RDS Dublin. Photos: Chris Bellew / Fennell Photography The Abbey Vocational School students were highly commended in two categories, the Biological & Ecological and Chemical, Physical & Mathematical Sciences. Jack Hannigan presented the project Seasonal variation in the antimicrobial activity of native Irish seaweeds which was highly commended. Samaire Fern’s project What colour is pi? An analysis of patterns in the visible representation of number sequences using colours observed by people

Donegal students raise the bar at BT Young Scientist & Technology exhibition

Published 16th Jan 2023, 18:33 GMT

Donegal students bagged 13 prizes at the BT Young Scientist & Technology exhibition in a year where over 1,000 students battled it out for coveted prizes

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Pictured is Tanaiste Micheal Martin TD with Shay Walsh MD BT Ireland with student Ciara Cannon from Abbey Vocational School Donegal Town and her project 'Using silica nanoparticals to create self sustaining antimicrobial surface coatings'

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Therese Gunning, Legal Director BT Ireland presents the BT Young Scientist & Technology Exhibition 2023 Chemical, Physical and Mathematical Category 3rd Junior Individual Award to Lorcan O Fearail, Colaiste Ailigh, Letterkenny for the project ‘Le do no gan a do” – Forbairt retardant doiteain eiceabhach chun caipeadh tinte fiaine a rialu’

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Grace Andrews and Meabh Cannon from Rosses Community School and their project 'How boys view the female role in society'

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Therese Gunning, Legal Director BT Ireland presents the BT Young Scientist & Technology Exhibition 2023 Chemical, Physical and Mathematical Category 3rd Place Junior Group Award to Ava Molloy, Darcy Mc Granaghan, Rose Gaffey, Loreto Community School Milford for the project ‘Quantitative Water Analysis of Mulroy Bay to Measure the Efficacy of a New Sewage System’.

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Donegal students raise the bar at BT Young Scientist & Technology exhibition

Donegal students bagged 13 prizes at the BT Young Scientist & Technology exhibition in a year where over 1,000 students battled it out for coveted prizes

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