Shannon's work experience video

Shannon has just completed a work experience at NUI Maynooth Chemistry Department. She made a short video of her time there.



Read more of Shannon's blog here.

BT Young Scientist Exhibition 2012

On the 11th of January 2012 12 students from TY were off to the BT Young Scientist exhibition.
The entire TY year applied for the competition back in October but it was the 12 girls, within 4 groups, that had the privilege of attending the competition for 4 days.

Another trip to the Young Scientist Exhibition

Happy New Year!

First week of school is over and we are back at full speed. This week ended with a trip to the Young Scientist Exhibition in Dublin, for all TY's and 2nd Year students, where we had 5 Transition Year groups competing.

Sci-fest.

Leah tells us about the T.Y’ trip to Tallaght last week to take part in the sci-fest competition.

"A couple of days ago we went to sci fest it was an experience. We arrived early enough because we had to leave at 8 and when we got there we saw a lot of projects. My group was in the physical sciences category and we were put into a lab with a few other groups...we felt very important. Then the judges came around and analysed our projects which was fun but after our third judge we were getting tired and Hungry! After lunch we went to a few lectures i went to one on alcohol."

Read the rest of Leah's post to find out all about the sci-fest competition here.

Cutting Radishes.. and fingers! :/

Niamh is dangerous....read on.....

"On Monday, we did an exciting Science experiment. We were testing the reaction of the enzyme in radishes at different temperatures. We had to use safety goggles and plastic gloves, as usual. The reaction of the radishes with hydrochloric acid, washing up liquid and buffer created

In School Science Competition

Today, in triple science, the science teachers announced the winners of the in school science competition. There were some great prizes won, like boxes of Celebrations and vouchers for Liffey Valley. Prizes were given to the students who got through to the BT Young Scientist, and also to students who the teachers thought deserved a prize for all their hard work. The teachers judged our projects in 3 areas.

Scientific Content.
Presentation of the project.
The originality of the idea.

The overall winners were Ali Bell and Eileen Maher. They did a project about fake tan, which was quite original. Although they did not get through to the BT Young Scientist, they continued working away on their project and even went to Maynooth College to complete it!

Ms Barry came down to give out the prizes and to look at our posters which were displayed on the walls of the demo room.

After the prizes were given out, we watched "Creation" which is all about Charles Darwin's theory of evolution and his life. The teachers had kindly bought us chocolates, lolliops, crisps and fizzy drinks to reward us for our hard work.

Overall, it was a great few hours! Thank you Ms. Ward, Ms. Healy and Ms. Coogan for such a great afternoon! :)
- Sarah McE .xo

In School Science Competition

During our triple science class, all the TY's were given the opportunity to display and present their BT Young Scientist projects. All of the four groups that got through to the competition in the RDS and all the other entries got to show off all the hard work they have been doing in science since September and present their projects to the rest of the year group.

Everyone found the projects so interesting, there were some really great ideas and the hard work that everyone put in really paid off.

Nice work girls! =p

Ellie xox

My Young Scientist project

This year so far, we have been working on our B.T. Young Scientist Exhibition projects. Everyone has divided into small groups to work on their individual projects. Eimear McCarthy and I are researching “The Medical Properties of Sea Air.”

We have written a letter to Met Eireann requesting information on different aspects of sea air, and we have carried out surveys in the school. We will soon visit coastal areas to carry out experiments relating to pressure, humidity and various other properties of sea air.

We sent our detailed one page proposal to the panel of judges for the Exhibition, but unfortunately we were not accepted for the exhibition in January.

We continue to do our project for an in-school competition next year though.

I am enjoying working on my science project and I feel that is a really good opportunity to research an area of particular interest to you.

Sophie O' Carroll

Science Attack

For our minicompany our group has decided to do a science dvd of fun experiments for children. Our group is Hannah Walsh, Nicolle Mc Donagh, Ellie O Halloran, Meg Kelly, Caoilfhionn Cullen, Aoife O Brien, Susan Mc Cormack and Chloe Abbot.

I made a blog so the teachers can see the experiments online or follow our progress as we are making the dvd or even ask us questions through email at scienceattackty@hotmail.ie

Here's a link to the blog if you want to take a look :)

http://scienceattackty.blogspot.com/

Nicolle x o x o