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SCIFEST SciFest promotes Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) education through the provision of a forum for students at the local, regional and national level to present and display their scientific investigations. SciFest@Clongowes (an online event this year!) featured entries from both Elements and Syntax students. Well done to all of the students who participated, who really shone, demonstrating their capacity to research, collate and communicate science.
2021 SciFest Winners and Commended Students Elements Highly Commended:
AbbVie Young Innovators Awards:
Syntax Highly Commended:
Peter Gibbons
Caolan Lannon
Colin Simon Fellowes
Arthur Jaggs
Tom Walsh
Ibai Juntilla El Busto
Luke Duggan McGettigan
Connor Caso
James Maguire
Captain’s Prize Students’ Choice Award Winner:
Richie Hyland
Max Sweetman
Maxim Staysukaytis Noah Dunne
Elements Overall Runner Up SciFest 2021:
Jack Reams
Patrick Jones
Bristol Myers Squibb Passion for STEM Award:
Elements Overall Winner SciFest 2021:
James Lee
Tim Boyle
ELEMENTS ART COMPETITION Elements boys took part in an Art Competition this year with the boys asked to choose a tree on the grounds of the College to study and draw. Mrs Brennan, their teacher noted that ‘they paid particular attention to line and texture in the creation of these stunning CLONGOWES LIFE
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Lino prints’. The choosing and cataloguing of the trees would not have been possible without the help of College Librarian Ms O’Loughlin and Fr Rector Michael Shiel SJ. Ms O’Loughlin helped the boys obtain information on the trees in Clongowes whilst Fr. Michael Shiel obtained maps and documents pertaining to the trees on the grounds of the College.
Syntax Overall Runner Up SciFest 2021: Mike Chen
Syntax Overall Winner SciFest 2021: James Keenan
A wonderful ‘virtual gallery’ was launched where the boys could showcase their work. Touchingly, Mrs Brennan had a message for her students that I’m sure will resonate with all those who have attended the school – ‘Clongowes Wood College is a very special place. We hope this exhibition reminds you in some way of what a beautiful place it is, and the beautiful people, and indeed trees that inhabit it’.
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