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THE schools of the Burren have continued to build on the regions blossoming reputation for scientific achievement with an excellent show- ing in last weeks BT Young Scien- tist Competition which took place in Dublin.
Students from Scoil Mhuire in En- nistymon, Mary Immaculate Sec- ondary School in Lisdoonvarna and Gort Community School all gained high marks from the judges in the RDS.
Indeed, Mary Immaculate were the second most successful school in the competition in terms of the amount of prizes that they brought home. With one first place, two second place, a third place and a number of
commendation under their belts, the students of Lisdoon did their school proud.
Sixth year, Laura Sims, took home the prize for first place in the Senior Social and Behavioural category with her examination of the importance of voter geography in elections.
Evelyn Linnane and Tess McGov- ern were awarded a second place for their project on tolerance and prejudice while Darren O’Gorman also came second in his category for his project on temporary limestone FEN Coh
Transition year student, David Crowe, was awarded third place in his category while there was also commendations for Ciara Griffin, Amie Barrett, Amy McGrath, Sine- ad McMahon, Catriona Callinan.
Meanwhile, the weekend proved very successful for transition year student Emma Hennessy who was awarded the SafeFood title and re- ceived a commendation for her KO) (em
In her project, Emma used ad- vanced scientific methods of testing to compare how many germs were present on cans of coke bought in a number of different locations.
The BT Young Scientist also proved to be a happy hunting ground for Gort Community School. In just their second year in the competition, the school put up another good show- ing this year with one project receiv- ing a commendation.
Leaving Cert James Mahon, fourth year Cian Brassil and third year Joe Murphy also received a green ribbon
for their project which attempted to investigate the possibility of using Zebra Mussels as an organic ferti- liser.
After the success of the “The Elec- tromagnetic Glove’ invented by Finn Krewer, Robin Flake, Michael Sell and James Mahon last year, Gort Community School continued to gain a place in the media at this year event.
Indeed, James Mahon, soimpressed the people from RTE that they asked him to present the section on the Ex- hibition for the DEN News2day pro- eramme.
More than 1400 projects from all over the country entered the BT Young Scientist Competition this year, with only 500 making it to the erand final in Dublin.