Secondary school students from Foxford and Ballina last week scooped a number of top awards at the annual Scifest in the Institute of Technology, Sligo.
Students from St Joseph’s Secondary School Foxford (Patrick Conwell, Adrian Holmes, and Richard Bourke ) were runners up in the overall competition for Best Project Award, sponsored by ABBOTT Ireland. Other students from the school who were winners were: Richard Bourke who received second prize in the Intermediate Technology category, and Grace Moran and Aisling Reilly received second prize in the Senior Life Science Category.
Coláiste Chomain, Ros Dumhach, Ballina students, Sean O’ Leanachaiu and Máirtín Ó Ciarán, also received first prizes in the Junior Physical Sciences category.
SciFest is a one day festival of science in which 200 students from Sligo, Mayo, Leitrim, Roscommon, Donegal, Cavan, and Galway entered. SciFest is jointly funded by Intel and Discover Science and Engineering. It is supported by a number of other partners and the institutes of technology therefore creates a valuable link between the second and third level education sectors and between education and industry.
