Success at BT Young Scientist Exhibition for ACC Students
Posted: 17th January 2012
Mr. Friel, Shane Gonley and Matija Milenovic at
BT 2012 with HEAnet Award, Highly commended rosette in background.
The BT Young Scientist and Technology exhibition took place last week in Dublin. Athlone Community College had two projects accepted among the 550 finalists. Transition Year students, Paul Connaughton, Jamie O’ Kane and Neil Dermody entered a project entitled’ Ragwort – yellow peril or precious flower?’. The students investigated where ragwort grows in Ireland. They also looked into the uses of ragwort and discovered that thirty species of insects and fourteen types of fungi grow on it.
Shane Gonley and Matija Milenovic at BT Young Science
and Technologist Exhibition 2012
Second Year students, Matija Milinovic and Shane Gonley were awarded
a Special Merit Award and Highly Commended for their project: ‘Group Idea
Sharing and Developing Website’. The students set up a website for individuals
and groups to share ideas on science and technology. They also compared
the effectiveness of idea development by groups with idea development
by individuals.