Sligo students (and a teacher!) get Young Scientist recognition
SLIGO students and a local teacher won awards at this year’s BT Young Scientist & Technology Exhibition. Five projects from Sligo were among the prizewinners announced at this year’s virtual virtual awards ceremony which was streamed live from the Mansion House in Dublin last Friday. Four of the prizewinning projects were from Ursuline College in Sligo town, while their science teacher Anthony Carolan also won a major award. The most successful project was that of Cianna Ruddy and Zoe Melvin which was ranked second in the Chemical, Physical and Mathemathical Intermediate Group category. Their project was “Examining bio-availability from transdermal patches”. Aoibheann Kearins was third in the Senior Individual section of the Social and Behavioural category, with a project called “Glossaphobia (a social anxiety problem): Finding Your Audience” . Two other Ursuline were highly commended. One, from Orla Devlin, Ciara Toolan and Aoibhin Maher, called “The Anti-Vaxxer
Virus”, which was in the
Social and Behavioural Intermediate Group section, while the other, from Bronagh McGee, Ella Rose Feeney, Aoife Connolly, called “It only takes 15 seconds” was in the Technology section. The other successful Sligo entry was from two students from Summerhill College, Samuel Regan and Patrick Murphy. They were third in the Social and Behavioural Sciences Junior Group category, with a project called, “How the digital age can assist teenagers to exercise during a pandemic lockdown”.
Meanwhile, Ursuline science teacher Anthony Carolon, who has been behind many successes by students from the school at the Young Scientist event in recent years, won the prestigious Analog Devices Educator of Excellence award for Technology.
There is still free access to the exhibition portal content until the end of January. You can check out the content at portal.btyoungscientist.com.