Scoil Pól scientists sent to Bootcamp
Aisling Daly, Shane Shinnors and Daniel Gammell, students at Scoil Pól Kilfinane, this week are taking part in the annual BT Young Scientist Business Bootcamp at UCD.
The group of three took first place in the Senior Social and Behavioural Sciences category, as well as taking home the Irish Research Council Award. Their project studied Seasonal Affective Disorder (S.A.D), and investigated the effect that various lux values have on people’s mood.
The students were chosen as a select group of just 30 from eight counties for the Bootcamp, that includes the winners of 2022’s BT Young Scientist & Technology Exhibition, Aditya Joshi and Aditya Kumar.
Principal of Scoil
Pól, Mike O’Hara has said that ‘this is an excellent opportunity for the students, they have put in endless amounts of work and time and it is brilliant to see them reap the rewards from this competition’.
Two Mallow students will also be participating, Lydia Kelleher and Sophie Creedon from St. Mary’s Secondary School in the town. Both 16, they won with their investigation into sports-related cranial impacts, and the design and development of wearable technology to better enable the measurement and recording of such head impacts.
For the bootcamp, the students will be working from Monday to Thursday this week on six projects, selected by the judges from the BT Young Scientist & Technology Exhibition 2022. A member of the original project team will work with four other Bootcamp students on their project, and they will develop the idea further based on the workshops they take part in throughout the week.
The students will experience first-hand the world of technology, commercialisation, business propositions and entrepreneurship, with the culmination of the four-day programme seeing the students pitching their ideas to an expert panel of judges.