TRALEE CBS students have won the Overall award in the Senior Social and Behavioural Sciences category at the BT Young Scientist and Technology Exhibition in Dublin tonight.
Michael Kirby, Padraig Crean and Michael Carroll created a farm safety book.
Their project was ‘A study into the effectiveness of teaching farm safety skills to young children by integrating different teaching pedagogies into a children’s storybook’.
Hughly proud of Michael Carroll, Padraig Crean &Michael Kirby who were overall winners of the Social & Behavioural Sciences Category. An absolutely tremendous achievement. Congrats to the 3 boys their teacher/mentor Máire Fitzgerald and all teachers involved. pic.twitter.com/EpVIyQHW73
— CBS The Green (@thegreencbs) January 11, 2019
The students incorporated pedagogical methods into a farm safety storybook. No such book exists. The project makes children safer and collects valuable information on near misses on the farm.