WINNERS OF AWARDS IN VARIOUS CATEGORIES

Various Categories winners

Various Categories winners

Chemistry Physical and Mathematical Sciences

Junior Group: 1st Cian Hughes, David O Reilly-Healy, eWave Guided Wheelchair - A Wireless Robotics Project, Gonzaga College, Dublin; 2nd Vincent Grace, Hugh Clancy, Designing and Building a Search and Rescue Robot incorporating New Mechanical Features and Heat Sensors, John Scottus School, Dublin.

Individual: 1st Clare Kavanagh, Intriguing Endings of Number Sequences, Our Ladys College - Drogheda, Louth; 2nd Clare Fletcher, Earthquake Resistant Buildings, Loreto High School - Beaufort, Dublin.

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Intermediate Group: 1st Laura Kennedy, Yvonne Purcell, Catherine O Shea, Fizzics, Loreto Secondary School - Letterkenny, Donegal; 2nd Michelle Picardo, Lise-Ann O Neill, Has Ireland Alternative Sourecs of Iodine in the case of a Nuclear Emergency?, Dominican College - Drumcondra, Dublin; 3rd Aoife Mc Sweeney, Elaine Webster, Cars - The Kinetic Energy source of the future, Coláiste Choilm, Cork.

Individual: 1st Edward Judge, Reducing Drag using Novel Surfaces, Kinsale Community School, Cork; 2nd Joint Gary Redmond, E - Lection, Arklow Community College, Wicklow; 2nd Joint Andrew Milliken, Hydraulic Fluid Contamination Testing for Vehicle Test, Crumlin High School, Antrim.

Senior Group: 1st Nicola OKane, Ciara ODonnell, Hubble Bubble toil and trouble - The Physics of foam, Loreto College - Coleraine, Derry; 2nd Hugh Hurley, Conor Meehan, Winding Drum Problem, Coláiste an Spioraid Naoimh, Cork; 3rd Christopher McParland, Brendan murphy, Perfect Sense!!, Abbey Christian Brothers Grammar School, Down.

Individual: 2nd Riana McKeith, C60-Science Soccer Ball, Maynooth Post Primary School, Kildare; 3rd Brian Kinsella, PS1 Pot Stirrer 1, Coláiste Lorcáin, Kildare.

Social and Behavioural Sciences

Junior Group: 1st (joint) Ciara Mc Cormick, Katherine Hayes, Olivia Murphy, Who are the Amber Gamblers?, Mount Anville Secondary School, Dublin; 1st(joint) Ailbhe Murphy, Maebh Horan, An Investigation into Surveys and Sampling Methods, Loreto Secondary School - Wexford, Wexford; 3rd Daniel Fleming, Mark Carroll, Fulachtaí Fia - Feast or Famine, Gaelcholáiste Choilm, Cork.

Individual: 1st Aisling O Rourke, Sport and Study - do they mix?, Loreto Abbey Secondary School - Dalkey, Dublin; 2nd Clare Cooney, Visible Pollution in an Urban River, Mount Mercy College, Cork; 3rd Emily Lynch, Tennis - An Analysis of Play, Our Ladys College - Drogheda, Louth.

Intermediate Group: 1st Sorcha Schnittger, Aislinn Bergin, Kate Riordan, How Music Affects Study!, Newtown School - Waterford, Waterford; 2nd Feargal McGuinness, Sean Lyttle, Declan McLaughlin, Variation in thought processes of monolingual and bilingual belfast children, St Malachys College - Belfast, Antrim;

3rd Rory Beirne, Denise Neary, Aisling Breathnach, Fluoride - Friend or Foe, Scoil Mhuire - Strokestown, Roscommon.

Individual: 1st Naomi O Connell Schultheiss, Do I look fat in this? Pressures of apprearance on teenagers, Mary Immaculate Secondary School, Lisdoonvarna, Clare; 3rd Orlaith Mc Carthy, Improving Text Books - The Scientific Way, Coláiste Muire - Cobh, Cork.

Senior Group: 1st Christopher Kane, Emily Breen, Sinead O Neill, Road Safety, Coláiste Lorcáin, Kildare; 2nd Mary Kelly, Valerie Flynn, Is Text Messaging Having an effect on Written Language?, Mount Sackville Secondary School, Dublin; 3rd Keira McCarthy, Katie Fitzgerald, Linda OConnell, N22 - Which way to go?, Coláiste Choilm, Cork.

Individual: 1st Tríona Collins, Lazy Days, Ballincollig Community School, Cork; 2nd Laura Jones, 2 Become 1 - A Parents Perspective, Christ King Secondary School, Cork.

Biology and Ecological

Junior Group: 1st Janice Mohan, April Bracken, Catherine Conlon, a Study of the Theba Pisana: A Mediterranean Snail, Our Ladys College - Drogheda, Louth;

2nd Rory McGrath, James McGuigan, Niall Hetherington, To investigate bacteria types and numbers in ice cubes, Newbridge College, Kildare;

3rd Catherine Gaffney, Aoife Gorey, Kavanagh Lindsay, Grubbier? Guys R Girls, Presentation Secondary School, Kilkenny.

Individual: 1st Mark Sims, Factors effecting the distribution of carlina vulgaris, Mary Immaculate Secondary School, Lisdoonvarna, Clare;

2nd Caoimhe Loftus, Mountain Water - is it as clear as they claim?, Newbridge College, Kildare;

3rd Mark Egan, A survey of wild mushrooms from Kindlestown forest, St Davids Holy Faith Secondary School, Wicklow.

Intermediate Group: 2nd Laoise Dunphy, Emma Áine Flynne, Lisa O Callaghan, Is your fitness influenced by the type of school you attend?, Coláiste Muire, Cork;

3rd Laura McKenna, Aoife Brennan, Behaviour & Life Cycle of the Woodlouse, Loreto College, St Stephen's Green, Dublin.

Individual: 1st Clare Byrne, Youth Smokers - The Physiological Effects, St Dominics High School, Dublin;

2nd Kate O Connell, The effects of exposure on the size of the purple sea urchin, Mary Immaculate Secondary School, Lisdoonvarna, Clare; 3rd Grace Bolton, The Level of Salt in Processed Food, Royal School Cavan, Cavan.

Senior Group: 1st Aoife O Halloran, Orla Fitzpatrick, Variations in the shape and strength of limpets, Mary Immaculate Secondary School, Lisdoonvarna, Clare;

2nd Eimear McCarthy, Jean Noonan, The influence of pollution on nutrient cycling in the Curaheen river, Coláiste Choilm, Cork;

3rd Daniel Yu, Daewoo Hong, Sangwoo Kim, Regeneration, St Andrews College, Dublin.

Individual: 2nd (Joint) Brid Doherty, Effect of mobile phones on seed germination, Mary Immaculate Secondary School, Lisdoonvarna, Clare;

2nd (Joint) Fiona O Donoghue, Variations in the size of lichens growing on stone walls in north Clare, Mary Immaculate Secondary School, Lisdoonvarna, Clare;

3rd (Joint) Katie Grufferty, A Comparative study of nitrates and other pollutants in river and well water in Co Cork, Glanmire Community College, Cork;

3rd (Joint) Maria Fenlon, Antics - The Study Of Ants Behaviour, Borris Vocational School, Carlow.