Aidan Mamo Cooney and I from Coláiste an Spioraid Naoimh have been lucky enough to be picked to represent our school and county at the 2018 SciFest National Final after winning our regional round in Cork Institute of Technology – CIT.
As part of this final we have made a video to share the results of our project. We are really proud of what we have achieved and its results.
Our project aims to reduce waiting lists for young people for access to vital mental health services. Using source data from HSE Ireland we analysed to optimum way to allocate resources.
We really want to share our findings and we would really appreciate it if you voted for our video and shared the link! You can vote once a day for the rest of the month.
Thanks very much,
Tony O’Halloran
Congratulations to our Leaving Certificate student Dara Costelloe.
He is one of the exceptional students to have been awarded a scholarship by the Naughton Foundation.
The scholarship programme was established in 2008 to promote the study of engineering, science and technology at third level in Ireland. Each year a number of exceptional students are awarded scholarships to study at undergraduate level at any publicly funded university or third-level institution in Ireland.
Dara will be presented with his medal and cheque at the award ceremony to be held in Trinity College on the 29th September. Coláiste an Spioraid Naoimh will also receive a prize of €1,000 which will be used in our school science laboratories.
The 2018 Salters’ Festival of Chemistry took place in U.C.C. on Wednesday 2nd May
Congratulations to our four First Year students Jimmy O’Riordan, Ali Kahn, Brian Donnelly & Timmy O’Riordan.
They came 3rd in the University Challenge.
As part of the challenge the students has to solve some puzzles using forensic techniques.
Well done to them and their teacher Ms. A. O’Mahony.
Coláiste an Spioraid Naoimh students exhibited two projects in the Sci-Fest competition held in C.I.T. this Friday 20th April.
5th Year student Joel Abraham displayed his project “Flow Technology: Water Level Sensing Unit For Vehicles”.
Tony O’Halloran, 5th Year and Transition Year student Aidan Mamo Cooney, displayed a group project “Applications of Queuing Theory to CAHMS”.
This project won the SciFest 2018 Science Foundation Ireland Best Project Award.
Tony and Aidan have qualified to exhibit their project at the SciFest 2018 National Final which will take place in November.
The staff and students of Coláiste an Spioraid Naoimh are hugely proud of all the exhibitors and their achievements.
Mr. T. Kerins
Congratulations to our students and teachers
Our Fifth Year student, Tony O’Halloran won 3rd prize in his category of Senior Individual Chemical, Physical & Mathematical sciences and the Royal College of Surgeons special award.
Transition Year student Aidan Mamo Cooney was highly commended for his project.
Our First Year students Ben Maher, Ross O’Donovan & Timmy O’Riordan also did C.S.N. proud and received very positive feedback. Apparently they have started planning their entry for next year!
It was a brilliant achievement for the students to be chosen to present their projects at the B.T. Young Scientist Exhibition and they were fantastic representatives for C.S.N.
The students describe their projects below:
Applications of Queuing Theory to the Public Orthodontic Treatment System:
My project looks at the applications queuing theory to the Irish Public Orthodontic Treatment System (IPOTS). Queuing Theory is a branch of applied mathematics which uses probability theory and Markov chains to model queues. By creating a model of the IPOTS I was able to simulate the effects of potential policy changes. Currently there are no published methods of doing this other than trial and error. My project creates a highly accurate tool which allows decision makers to make more informed choices regarding public policy in healthcare.”
Tony O’Halloran (5th year)
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A Network Model To Analyse Peer Learning:
This project involves applying the mathematics of Network Theory to the learning networks present in a group of 6th years in CSN. I am mapping these networks in order to better understand how they are formed between students when they communicate regarding study or homework. My research has led to some surprising results which I am currently analysing by calculating specific aspects regarding to the elements of the two. These results will allow me to reach some conclusions which in turn will allow me to make suggestions in order to make peer to peer learning more effective. This should improve learning methods in schools and make education easier for a larger range of students.
Aidan Mamo Cooney (4th year)
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Microorganism’s Reaction to Light and Sound:
Two other first year students – Timmy O Riordan and Ross O Donovan – and I are attending the BT Young Scientist Competition 2018. Our project title is ‘Microorganisms reaction to light and sound’. We are growing microorganisms in the lab and seeing how different amounts of light and different frequencies of sound affect the growth of the microorganisms.
Ben Maher (N. Fionnbarra)
Well done and congratulations again to the students and their teachers from all in C.S.N.
The main competition awards at ISEF’17 were on Friday morning. In these our 6th Year student Cormac Larkin was awarded a second place in the Physics and Astronomy category.
This is another outstanding achievement for him as there were more than 1700 projects in total at the competition. Furthermore he will have the honour of having an asteroid named after him.
Congratulations Cormac from all in C.S N.
Cormac Larkin (6th year) is currently one of four students from the island of Ireland attending the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair (ISEF) 2017 held at the Los Angeles Convention Center in Los Angeles California. The competition is by invitation only and Cormac was in invited as a consequence of his achievement in winning the Intel Award at the BT Young Scientist and Technology Exhibition earlier this year.
Cormac’s project “Case Study of Data Mining in Observational Astronomy: The Search for New OB Stars in the Small Magellanic Cloud” involves a new method of searching for a particular type of star from openly available astronomical data. He has increased the total existing known number of these stars by about 10%. His method is currently the only systematic process for finding these and their distribution and presence has significant implications for the formation and structure of our Universe.
On Tuesday Cormac was invited to attend the Alumni Lunch. He was one of a very small number of participants invited to speak briefly in front of the entire audience at the Entrepreneur and Excellence in Science and Technology panel.
Wednesday involved a day of intensive judging and interviews after which the participants unwound with an exclusive all-expenses evening at the Universal Studios theme park!
We at Colaiste an Spioraid Naoimh are very proud that Cormac and his accompanying teacher Mr. Kerins are representing our school and our country at this prestigious competition.
C.S.N. Robotics Competes in DELL/EMC VEX WORLDS competition in Lousiville Kentucky
On the 18th April eight students accompanied by Ms. Walsh packed their bags and flew out to Kentucky via Chicago. We had won the national finals in the Dell/EMC Vex Robotics Competition held at the CIT in January, and we were preparing to compete in the World Vex Robotics Competition. The robot had been upgraded and painted and the team had practiced extensively in the run up to the trip.
We had a few days to ourselves on arrival and these were spent making the final touches to the robot, seeing the sights, and enjoying some tourist activities. We went on a shopping trip to the outlet center, saw a baseball game and went to downtown Louisville. We were also treated to a trip of the Flex Ltd. facility in Louisville, learning about the business and what products and companies they work with. Flex was responsible for shipping the robot and also gave the students an extensive tour and a great lunch, going above and beyond as a sponsor.
Day 1 of the competition was hectic with registration and setup as over 500 individual teams from all over the world were entering were . Once those were sorted the robot was sent for inspection and passed with flying colors. The team participated in the driver skills part of the competition which went well. Day 2 of the competition began with the parade of nations, with the boys and a giraffe walking out in front of the entire competition waving the Irish flag, there was an electric atmosphere in the convention center and the team were ready to jump into their first match. The tournament got off to a great start with a decisive victory for the robot. The competition was fierce on day 3 with a mix of wins and losses. Day 4 found the team finishing around mid-level in the competition. We watched an amazing final and were delighted as the overall winners came from our own division.
We are very grateful to all of the companies that sponsored us and enabled us to attend this competition. Please see school Facebook page for full list and for more details on the robot, the team and the trip. The travelling students were: Daniel Murphy, Sean Cronin, Aaron McGee, Harry Moran, Kevin O’ Regan, Matthew Cronin, Jamie O’Leary and Elvinas Seporatis
-Aaron McGee
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