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Abbie Mazzelle and Emma Heaphy from Presentation Secondary Listowel won the Best Project Award at SciFest 2024. Photo By : Domnick Walsh © Eye Focus LTD
TWO students from Listowel won the the Best Project Award at SciFest 2024 at the MTU Kerry Campus on Wednesday.
Emma Heaphy and Abbie Mazzelle from Presentation Secondary Listowel won the award for their project “Would People Live on an Island if Given the Necessities” and will go on to represent Scifest@MTU Kerry Campus at The SciFest National Final in November.
Their investigation aims to tackle the housing crisis in Ireland. Their solution is to use the islands around Ireland and propose that people live on the islands to make more space on the mainland.
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“We have sent out a survey with ranging questions helping us find our answer; would people live on an island if given the necessities? We have analysed this data. To inform questions for our survey we carried out statistical analysis on the censuses over the past 15 years”, said Emma.
“We have also looked at the environmental side of this and have produced a fully functioning sustainable island”, added Abbie.
In other awards from the event, Ethan Ward from CBS Secondary School, Tralee, was SciFest Best Project Award Runner Up. Boston Scientific Medical Devices Award went to CBS Secondary School, Tralee’s Jaidon Ward Barrett, Tomasz Bober, Rian Curtin. Presentation Secondary School Tralee students Ciara and Saoirse Murphy, were winners of theCommunications Award.
Ciara and Saoirse Murphy, from Presentation Tralee winners of the Communications Award.
Eirgrid Cleaner Climate Award went to Senan O’Brien and Rebecca O’Sullivan of Pobalscoil Inbhear Scéine, Kenmare.
Speaking at the opening of the event, Professor Maggie Cusack, President of MTU, acknowledged the huge amount of effort by all involved evident from the quality of projects submitted and thanked the teachers for their mentorship.
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“We look forward to seeing some of you here today live out your STEM dream and study with us at MTU. Our state-of-the-art STEM building at the Kerry Campus is well underway and will be complete in 2025. This new building will provide all the facilities to enable the students of today to become to the engineers and scientists of tomorrow”.
Causeway Comprehensive School Kerry students Robyn Cregan Emily O’Sullivan and Doireann O’Keeffe arrive for SciFest 2024. Photo By : Domnick Walsh © Eye Focus LTD
SciFest, founded in 2006 is a celebration of science, technology, engineering, and maths (STEM) education. Spanning all of Ireland it has grown in the 19 years to become Ireland’s largest second-level STEM fair programme.
Winners from each regional STEM fair go on to compete at a national final in November. Winners from the national final compete at the Regeneron International Science and Engineering Fair (ISEF) in America and attend the Long Night of Science in Berlin. The SciFest programme is funded primarily by Intel Ireland, Boston Scientific and EirGrid.
Anna Ahern , Emma Scanlon and Shauna Riordan Students fom Colaiste Ide Dingle arrive for SciFest 2024. Photo By : Domnick Walsh © Eye Focus LTD
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