There's Always Light at the End of the Tunnel

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. Source. 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. . 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 ...

In science today we switched classes. Since the start of the year i had Ms. O C and we were doing chemistry. Now we are doing physics and we have   Mr. D. I don’t really like physics and I’m not going to do it next year for 5 th and 6 th year. But I’m sure that it would be fun to do some of the different experiments and things like that that you can do when you do physics. We are still working on our projects that we were doing for the young scientist. We are going to be entering into the sci-fest competition so we have to keep working on them and trying to make them better. For the project that the group I’m in we are do a project to show the importance of washing your hands and how fast germs and bacteria can spread. We have finished the first part of our project and now we just have to make the agar and take the swabs of the different things that we want to test and then leave them in an incubator to see what happens. Ms O C said that we will be able to do that next Tuesday s...

Today in science we were testing the ph levels of different shampoos. In class yesterday we started to learn about cosmetic science and the first thing that we looked at was hair and shampoo. We were asked to bring in shampoo and when I went home from school and told my brother that I needed to bring in some shampoo to school he gave me a weird look but not to worry I got some any way. It was a pretty simple experiment we just put different samples into test tubes and mixed them with a little bit of water and put in a strip of universal indicator paper and hey presto we were pretty much done. We just had to leave them for a while and then compare then to the different colours for each of the different ph levels. It was a really good experiment and a bit random too but it was fun .

Yesterday in science we spent the class planning an experiment that we would be doing today in class. The experiment was to make foam and it was really cool and pretty simple too. I was working with Jessica for this experiment. There wasn’t really that much that we had to do. it was really just mixing all of the different substances together into one conical flask. Ours didn’t seem to be very foamy but I was kind of foam. I think that we got the measurements a bit mixed up and that’s why it didn’t work as well as we had hoped but we did manage to make some sort of foam by the end of the class.

Today all of the tys headed off to the RDS to go and see the young scientist exhibition. It was a good day overall. All of the tys entered into the young scientist competition at the start of the school year to see if they got accepted. We worked in groups for this project too. Only one of the groups that entered from ty got accepted into the competition and there was also a group from fifth year that got accepted into the competition. When we got to the RDS it was packed there was lots of other school there too. We were allowed to split into different groups and go around where ever we wanted during the day but we were not allowed to leave the RDS. I spent most of the day with Kellie and Louise we always managed to lose Róisín and Niamh like every five minutes but we alas managed to be with each other at some point in the day. We first began to look around at all of the projects and some of them looked really good and interesting and people really did put a lot of effort into them a...

In science today we were doing an experiment. The experiment was to do with find the PH of things and trying to make different colours with the chemicals that we had to use. MS O C said that it was a competition to see who could make all of the colours first. I and Jessica got off to a bit of a rocky start as we didn’t really understand what we were meant to be doing. But we figured it out pretty quickly well Jessica figured it out anyway. Once we knew what we were doing things would get better would you think so well they didn’t... First we couldn’t work the Pipette and when we got it to work the acid would only come out in drops so we decided to get a new one. But once again it would only let the liquid come out in slow small drops. But we decided that we wouldn’t bother to change it this time. So we were able to make the colour red because that only needed acid. Then once we had that colour done we started to work on a different colour. I thought...