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Emily Butler, Emma Sweeney and Luke Mulloy of Ballinrobe Community School are presented with the 1st place Senior Group Biological and Ecological Sciences Category Award
TWO Mayo schools have together won seven awards at this year’s BT Young Scientist & Technology Exhibition.
From eight projects entered by 12 of its students, Mount St Michael secondary school in Claremorris took home five awards.
Mount St Michael student Dana Carney, who was interviewed by The Mayo News last year, won the National Disability Authority Award (Health & Wellbeing) category for developing Secure Hands, an app designed to enhance the efficiency of emergency communication through Irish Sign Language. Ms Carney also placed second in the individual awards for the intermediate age grade.
Her fellow Mount St Michael student, Mary Lilibeth Curry Glynn, also placed second in the Senior Individual (Health & Wellbeing) award category for her project, ‘Waste Not, Want Not’, which involved ‘a comprehensive investigation into the usability of sterile medical supplies post expiry, and [its] potential to reduce waste in healthcare’.
The Highly Commended (Health & Wellbeing) category award also went to Mount St Michael for Evolve Era, an interactive AI-powered medical-symptom tracking and diagnostic support created by Simona Gaubyte, Ema Sasnauskaite and Huria Sadiq.
The all-girls Claremorris school also earned an award in the Display Award (Health & Wellbeing) category for ‘Diawise: Empowering Educators – a technological solution for teacher training in the management of student diabetes’, by Abigail Killeen.
Meanwhile, Ballinrobe Community School received two accolades for a project by Luke Mulloy, Emma Sweeney and Emily Butler concerning the feeding habits of fledgling swifts in correlation to weather conditions. The students found that an increase in temperature led to an increase in feeding among swifts, which, due to climate change, may lead to a rise in their population.
The 2025 BT Young Scientist & Technology Exhibition, which took place in the RDS in Dublin last week, saw 546 projects entered from 223 schools around the country.
Ballinrobe Community School, Mount St Michael of Claremorris, and St Patrick’s College, Lacken Cross, were the three Mayo schools represented at the annual event.
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