Sci-fest

Today all of the T.y’s headed off to Tallaght I.T to take part in the sci-fest competition. We left school bright and early at 8 o clock. We arrived in Tallaght around 8.45 and we first had to register. We had to also pick two talks that we would like to go and see. There were four different talks so we chose two and we got free tickets in to see them.


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Once we had registered and found out where we had to set it we made our way over to stick our poster. It didn’t take very long and we were ready in no time. We walked around for a little while looking at some of the other projects that were being set up. All of the St. Wolstans girls were in different places depending on what type your project was.
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After the opening ceremony the judging started. During the opening ceremony a few different important people talked about science and there was also a minister there too who talked to us for a few minutes as well. In total my group had two judges but after we had lunch other groups got different judges to ask them some more about their projects.
Science projects

After half an hour we could go to the talks and at this time all of the judging was finished. The two talks that i went to were “Fighting crime with science” and “Howling Jelly Babies and other cool chemistry”. These talks were held while the judges were making their decisions after lunch about the groups that won prizes.
I thought that the talks were good and they were made kind of interesting so it wasn’t like we had to sit for forty minutes learning loads of different information. At the end of the talks there was time for questions which was really good too.
Here are some videos from the chemistry talk.





After both of the talks we had to take down our posters and get ready for the awards ceremony. St Wolstans did really well in the awards. Five different groups won awards and one of the groups won the best overall project in the sci-fest competition. Aoife B, Kate E and Stephanie H won the best overall project with their project that was “To test the free radical theory of ageing and the counteracting effects of antioxidants.” Their project was also accepted in to the Young Scientist 2011. Well done girls you deserved to win. And well done to all of the other groups that won prizes a lot of work went into all of the different projects.

It was a really good day and there was really good results too. It was enjoyable even if it was all about science and it was a really long day too but it was enjoyable.

The winners :)







Well done girls.

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