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Author: Denise McNamara
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Seven projects from Galway students – working on topics ranging from female scientists in textbooks to the effects of war – all came home with major awards from this year’s BT Young Scientist & Technology Exhibition in the RDS.
The projects – selected from 550 entrants overall – came from five city, county and offshore island schools and involved twelve students.
Three students from Coláiste Naomh Eoin, Inis Meáin – Cian Ó Conghaile, Máitiú Mac Donnacha and Senan Gleeson – were second in the junior age group of the Chemical, Physical & Mathematical Sciences category for their project on whether marine pollution is attacking the coast.
Matthew Daly from the Presentation College, Headford, was second in the intermediate age group of the Chemical, Physical & Mathematical Sciences category for his project on using modern Artificial Intelligence (AI) models to analyse data from telescopes.
PCH students Conn Naughton and Jonathan McPhilbin took second place in the Senior Group Technology Category for their project ‘Multimedia Content Analysis Using Python: Brightness Sound and Colour Extraction’.
The pair also won the Stripe Software Award for their project.
In the Technology category in the same age group, Jack Barry from Coláiste Iognáid in the city won for his research on developing a ‘nasogastric tube’ – the soft tubes that normally go into the nose, throat and stomach to feed formula to a child – to determine correct positioning by way of a colour change.
First Years Liya Walsh and Crystal Quinn from Coláiste Muire Máthair were second in the junior age bracket of the Social & Behavioural Sciences category for their exploration of science books and whether they excluded female scientists.
From the same city school, Yehor Popkov won a display award for his exploration of how to gauge how contented Ukrainian students are in schools; this was in the Health and Wellbeing section.
Finn Mannion and Euan Burke of Seamount College, Kinvara, were second in the junior age bracket of the Biological & Ecological category for their analysis of the environmental effect of war using a calculator assessing cost and cost and outcome.
Caption: Therese Gunning, Legal Director at BT Ireland presents the 2nd place Junior Group Social and Behavioural Sciences Category Award to Crystal Quinn and Liya Walsh, Colaiste Muire Mathair, for the project ‘Have science books evolved enough to include sufficient female scientist references?’
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