I was delighted to visit the BT Young Scientist Exhibition in the RDS on Thursday last. I met up with many students from Co Louth and thoroughly enjoyed hearing about their projects. I was very impressed by the standard of all the work presented and great credit is due not only to the students but to their teachers who guide and encourage them in their work.
Aoife McDonnell from St Louis Secondary School Dundalk with her project on Lipoprotein Lipase and it's activity in bovine milk.
Conor Ryan, Stephen Woods and Stephen Lynch from Bush Post-Primary School who scooped the Irish Patents Office Special Award, a Highly Commended and a Display Award for their project on "Mooboots".
Mohammad Beshr and Tiernan McGurk from De la Salle College Dundalk with their project on the extraction of caffeine from beverages.
Alex Cahill and Shane McQuillan from De la Salle College Dundalk with their project on the prevalence of racism and sectarianism in the border region.
Cian Murphy and Ronan O Shea from De la Salle College Dundalk who presented a project on Creating a Seal for Food Products.
Ellie Loughran from Our Lady's College Drogheda with "Spiral Patterns in tree cones in Ireland".
Ellen Edwards and Eimear Magee from St Louis Secondary School Dundalk who developed a game, Invaders and Defenders, about viruses and bacteria.
Do looks matter? In the case of food, that's what Irene McDonnell and Miriam Mulholland from St Oliver's Community College Drogheda wanted to find out.
Kayleigh Brady, Roisin Keating and Nicola Belton from Bush Post-Primary School with their project "Virtual Stoning - a new trend in social media sites"
Does your caffeine intake affect your sleep pattern? Yes it does if you are under 30! That's according to St Louis Secondary School students Caoimhe Kerley, Melissa Lawrence and Ciara McQuillan.
Megan Crilly and Dara Goss from St Vincent's Secondary School Dundalk with their project on the effects of Yoga on Blood Pressure and Heart Rate.
Aoife Begley from St Vincent's Secondary School with her project on Slip or Non-Slip Tiles which was awarded a Highly Commended in the Chemical/ Physical/Mathematical Sciences category.
Home Brewers Beware! Aiveen O Callaghan, Alibhin Sally and Grainne Smyth looked at the effect of hot press temperature variation and bottle storage conditions on variations in alcohol concentration. They were awarded a Highly Commended in the Chemical/Physical/Mathematical Sciences Category.
Congratulations also to Sarah Begley from St Vincent's Secondary School who achieved a Display Award for her project entitled "Does restless leg syndrome really exist"?
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