BTYSE: Coláiste Chiaráin aims to continue on winning streak

THERE are full-on preparations in Coláiste Chiaráin in Croom as six projects from the school have qualified for the BT Young Scientist competition.

The school has had huge success in recent years, winning top category prizes for the past three years and also taking away Special Awards on each occasion.

This year’s projects, all mentored by teacher Ms Edel Farrell, are PORTANOS-Portable, Extensible diagnostics by Taha Njie and Aiden Osccar; VerifyMe: A new approach to authorship attribution in the post-ChatGPT era, by Sean O'Sullivan; Intermediate Technology category: Teaching AI to recognise bacterial cultures on agar plates, by Miles Bueno; Making sustainable bio-fabrics from seaweed by Lily Li; Block it out? Does external audible stimuli affect our concentration depending on MBTI: an investigation by Amina Costello; and Testing the Effectiveness of Different Antacids by Ruben Massey.

Principal Gerard O’Sullivan commended the work ongoing in each project. “We are delighted once again seeing the fruits of our work with so many projects getting through to this stage of the competition. We are eagerly looking forward to a fantastic opportunity for our students and school.”