.CBS The Green students Tadhg Scanlon and Ruairí Healy won the Newstalk Best Communicator Award for ‘Levels of microplastics in different beaches along the west coast of Kerry’.at the Scifest Exhibition at IT Tralee on Wednesday. Photo by Dermot Crean
SECOND-LEVEL students from all over Kerry displayed their science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM) skills in IT Tralee on Wednesday.
There were an amazing 80 entries in the 12th SciFest@College competition which is the largest and most inclusive second-level STEM fair initiative on the island of Ireland.
Tralee was well represented by the local secondary schools and they didn’t go home empty-handed with Mercy Mounthawk picking up four awards.
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Students Ben O’Reilly and Georgia Twomey won the Inclusion in Science Award (Sponsored by IT Tralee) for their ‘Spotlight’ project; Daire Doyle ‘Brien and Sean Vieux won the Physics Award for ‘Investigating the Energy Released by the Plasma Formation of Grapes’; Nicola Moriarty, Patrick Nolan and Sean Fitzgibbon won the Specsavers Award for ‘A Safety System for Bicycles to Improve Road Safety’ and Natalia Talaga and Temisan King were Abbott Runner-up Best Project Award for ‘An Investigation into whether Graphene is an Effective Alternative to Plastic’.
Gaelcholáiste Chiarraí won two awards — Jared Ó Briain, Tomás Ó Dhuibhne, Seamus Lucey won the Space Award for ‘Colonising Mars’ and Kiana Breathnach and Zoe Ni Chearuill won the ISTA Award (Best project in Junior category) for ‘Investigating the use of Neural Implants to reduce Parkinson’s Disease’.
CBS The Green’s Ruairi Healy and Tadhg Scanlon won the Newstalk Best Communicator Award for ‘Levels of microplastics in different beaches along the west coast of Kerry’.
The Overall SFI Discover Best Project Award was won by Timothy McGrath of Community College Killorglin for ‘An R&D study on using a nutrient treatment biofilter to combat oceanic and freshwater deadzones which harnesses the intrinsic potential of halophyte species’.
He will go on to compete at a national final in November 2019. The winner(s) of the SciFest National Final 2019 will be presented with a trophy and will represent Ireland at the International Science and Engineering Fair (ISEF) 2020 in Anaheim, California.
Since launching in 2008, more than 60,000 students have participated in the competition, which represents an average year on year increase of 23% in participation. SciFest is funded primarily by Science Foundation Ireland, Boston Scientific, Intel Ireland and Specsavers. Scroll down for photos…
CBS The Green students Ted Hanley and Jimmy Maunsell at the Scifest Exhibition at IT Tralee on Wednesday. Photo by Dermot Crean.Gaelcholáiste Chiarraí students Seamus Ó Luasaigh, Jared Ó Briain and Tomás Ó Duibhne at the Scifest Exhibition at IT Tralee on Wednesday. Photo by Dermot CreanMercy Mounthawk students Laoise Ross, Nicole Vizer and Pablo Lopez at the Scifest Exhibition at IT Tralee on Wednesday. Photo by Dermot Crean.Mercy Mounthawk students Rowan Carter O’Flynn, Siobhan Clifford and Qintar Ameed at the Scifest Exhibition at IT Tralee on Wednesday. Photo by Dermot CreanCBS The Green students Hiúdaí Hayes and Ahnaf Ahmed at the Scifest Exhibition at IT Tralee on Wednesday. Photo by Dermot Crean.Mercy Mounthawk students Holly O’Sullivan, Megan Fly and Ephrata Yosef at the Scifest Exhibition at IT Tralee on Wednesday. Photo by Dermot CreanCBS The Green students Josh Quilter and Oran Maunsell at the Scifest Exhibition at IT Tralee on Wednesday. Photo by Dermot Crean.Gaelcholáiste Chiarraí students Sorcha Nic Gearailt and Leah Ní Sheanacháin at the Scifest Exhibition at IT Tralee on Wednesday. Photo by Dermot CreanColáiste Gleann Lí students Leah Williams Morgan and Karolina Szlapka at the Scifest Exhibition at IT Tralee on Wednesday. Photo by Dermot Crean.CBS The Green students Ciaran Cahill and Joel Varghese at the Scifest Exhibition at IT Tralee on Wednesday. Photo by Dermot CreanMercy Mounthawk students Owen O’Connor and Keela Hughes at the Scifest Exhibition at IT Tralee on Wednesday. Photo by Dermot Crean.Mercy Mounthawk students Kaplan Carter O’Flynn and Julia Kowalska at the Scifest Exhibition at IT Tralee on Wednesday. Photo by Dermot CreanColáiste Gleann Lí students Sabrina Isufi and Jennifer White O’Brien at the Scifest Exhibition at IT Tralee on Wednesday. Photo by Dermot Crean.Mercy Mounthawk students Aine Mulrooney, Caoimhe Doyle and Sarah Davoren at the Scifest Exhibition at IT Tralee on Wednesday. Photo by Dermot CreanColáiste Gleann Lí students Darragh Costello and Kelsey O’Mahony at the Scifest Exhibition at IT Tralee on Wednesday. Photo by Dermot Crean
