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, 18:24 GMT

Updated 16th Jan 2023, 18:30 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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Therese Gunning, Legal Director BT Ireland presents the BT Young Scientist & Technology Exhibition 2023 Chemical, Physical and Mathematical Category 1st Intermediate Individual Award to Ethan Dewhirst, St Columba's Comprehensive School Co Donegal for the project 'A comparative study Physicochemical characteristics and health-promoting properties of Donegal heather honeys Vs Maunka Honey'

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Therese Gunning, Legal Director BT Ireland presents the BT Young Scientist & Technology Exhibition 2023 Biological and Ecological Sciences Category 2nd Place Senior Group Award to Beth Doherty , Ciara Gilmore, Carndonagh Community School for the project 'Reactivation of the Epstein Barr Virus (Glandular Fever); is there a connection between the reoccurrence of it and Post-Acute COVID-19? - A Statistical Analysis'

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Therese Gunning, Legal Director BT Ireland presents the BT Young Scientist & Technology Exhibition 2023 Social and Behavioural Sciences Category 2nd Place Junior Group Award to Caolan Mc Taggart, Daithi Mac Diaramada and Matthew O' Farrell, Colaiste Ailigh, Letterkenny, for the project 'An bfhuil tionchar ag ardaithe costas bhreosla ar an cinneadh fuinneamh in athnuaite a usaid sa teach'

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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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