SCI FEST IRELAND 2012 – SUTTON PARK STUDENT SUCCESSES
On Wednesday 9th May four teams of Sutton Park students packed together their projects – the products of many months of Scientific research and very hard work- and headed to the Institute of Technology Tallaght for the 2012 SciFest Ireland Finals. SciFest celebrated their 6th Year by inviting back their first ever overall winner of SciFest Ireland – Edain Quinn (past pupil of Sutton Park)- to open the ceremony and later present some of the awards. Edain is now a Physiotherapist working in a UK hospital.
Congratulations to all the students who made it through to these finals. All of the students were a credit to themselves and the school and put an enormous amount of work into their projects.
Luke Maguire, William Quinn & Jakob Ziewer (1st Year) did a fantastic project on the effect of listening to music on the ability to learn. They used their fellow students as test subjects playing classical or rock music or no music whilst the students did timed memory tests. Their results revealed that those who listened to classical music performed slightly better than the other two groups. They presented their project very well to the judges and had an impressive display. Well done!
Ashling Sugrue, Cherie O’Keeffe & Jonathon Andrews (1st Year) did a very interesting project on facial recognition capabilities of humans. They designed a rotating plate on which they attached an upside down photo of Barack Obama whose eyes and mouth had been rotated 180 degrees. The portrait seemed OK upside down but took on a weird appearance as they rotated their plate. They discovered females were slightly faster at detecting the weird appearance. They worked hard on their project and presented it extremely well to the judges. Well done!
Ellen McGrady Hogan & Carla Mifsud Naughton (1st Year). Congratulations- these girls won:
The Junior Physics Prize and The Sustainable Energy Ireland Award
for their project examining the effects of different materials in decreasing heat loss through the walls floors and roofs of houses. They plan to continue their project and design a 21st Century EcoHouse for the next BT Young Scientist.Fantastic achievements- well done.
Anna Colwell, Daisy Barron & Aaron Ram (1st Year) . Congratulations- these students won 3 awards
The Junior Technology Prize The Discover Sensors Award The Global Citizenship Prize
for their project examining designing and building a non-electric fridge for Africa. Amazing achievements – well done. The students plan to do further research on increased cooling methods and take their project forward to the BT Young Scientist.
All of the students were great ambassadors for the school and can be really proud of themselves.
BT Young Scientist & Technology Exhibition 2012 – News
Congratulations to the 2 teams from SPS in this years BTYS Exhibition.
Ian Harrison & Caoimhe Barnes (5th Year students) won Highly Commended for their project ‘The Design and Construction of a Multi-touch Table Top Computer’.
Caoimhe & Ian also won a place on the BT Business & Technology residential all expenses paid week held in UCD in March. The students had the opportunity to pitch their business idea in Dragon’s Den style training workshops. Well done!
Ian & Caoimhe’s project was filmed for 3 programmes for RTE.
Joe Deegan & Sarah Deneher (2nd Year students) won Highly Commended for their project ‘ An investigation of the bioremediation abilities and mycelial structure of Oyster mushrooms in reducing PHC waste’ Well done!
Joe & Sarah’s project was featured in the Irish Daily Mail newspaper.
SCI FEST IRELAND 2011 – SUTTON PARK STUDENT SUCCESSES
Congratulations to Sutton Park students who scooped top prizes at this year’s Sci Fest Ireland competition held in IT Tallaght Tues 10th May 2011
Ian Harrison & Lisa Rogers (4th Year) guided by their teacher, Mr Mark Tattersall, with their project
‘The Design and Construction of a Multi-touch Tabletop Computer’
Ian & Lisa were awarded the 1st & 2nd Prize in Senior Technology
Joe Deegan, Alexandra Day & Sarah Deneher (1st Year), guided by their Teacher Ms Catherine Tattersall, with their project ‘Breaking down PHC Materials in an Eco-Friendly Way’, won 1st Prize in the Junior Biology.
Kamiel Houben & Sam Barron (1st Year) narrowly missed out on a prize but must be highly commended for super work on their project ‘To Investigate the Ability of UV Light to Sterilise Water’
Well done to all. The students are now working on furthering their research and developing their projects for next Year’s BT Young Scientist Competition
BT Young Scientist 2011 2nd Prize Senior Biology Adam Kielthy & Kmla Sharma 'Cleaning up crude oil spillages using Mushrooms'
BT Young Scientist 2011 1st Prize Junior Biology and Winners of Science Foundation Ireland Award & Jack Restan Display Award Sean Gallagher, Ronan Conlon Dooley & Ben Colwell 'Using photosynthetic algae to remove CO2 emissions from combustion of fossil fuels'
BT Young Scientist 2011 Intermediate Biology Highly Commended Caoimhe McNamara, Aly Walshe & Joshua Tobin 'Cellulase - the enzyme to save the planet'
SciFest Ireland 2011 1st Prize Senior Technology Ian Harrison & Lisa Rogers Teacher - Mr Mark Tattersall The design and build of a multi-touch table top computer'
SciFest Ireland 2011 1st Prize Junior Biology Joe Deegan Sarah Deneher & Alex day 'Breaking down PHC's using bioremediation'
SciFest Ireland 2011 Junior Biology entry Kamiel Houben & Sam Barron 'Investigating the effect of UV light to produce clean drinking water'
BT Young Scientist Senior Biology Winners 2009 Overall Winners, N.Ireland Young Scientist 2009 Winners of the Silver Crest Award at the UK Big Bang Competition in Manchester 2010
Sci Fest Ireland 2009 2nd Year students 2nd Prize winners
N. Ireland Young Scientist 2009. Winners Junior Crest Science, Winners Mining Engineering Award
BT Young Scientist 2008 2nd Year Students Junior Technology Winners
BT Young Scientist 2008 Junior Behavioural Science Winners
2nd Year Students BT Young Scientist Junior Technology Winners 2008 N. Ireland Young Scientist Overall Winners 2008 Fingal Co Council Award 2008 Winners of the Innovation Award at UK Big Bang Science Fair, London 2009 With their project 'A Web Browser for the Colour Blind'
