SciFest
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Volume 5, Number 3
January 2014
Inside this issue:
Se co nd S ciF e st winn e r se l ect ed to co mp et e in Intel ISE F 2 0 1 4
Massive increase in participation in SciFest@School
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Minister Sean Sherlock to launch SciFest 2014
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The SciFest national final in November 2013 was the closest in years, with a number of
SciFest@College 2014
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really excellent projects vying for the top award. It was eventually decided to present
Why get involve in SciFest?
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More than 20,000 students have participated in SciFest
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Third Year Revision Crossword
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Contact Details
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the Grand Award, which includes an all-expenses-paid trip to represent Ireland at the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair (ISEF) in Los Angeles in May, to Paul Clarke from St Paul’s College in Raheny, Dublin. Paul subsequently also won the BT Young Scientist and Technology top award.
As the standard of the projects in this year’s final was so high Intel decided to consider sending a second SciFest project to this year’s Intel ISEF competition. Conor Foy from Coláiste Chiaráin in Croom, Co. Limerick came a very close second in the national competition and he was invited to the Intel facility in Leixlip where he presented his project to two engineers from the company. The engineers were so impressed with the quality of Conor’s project that he will also compete at Intel ISEF 2014. Conor will now travel to Los Angeles, with his teacher, courtesy of Intel Ireland. We are extremely grateful to Intel Ireland for this, and their ongoing, support for the SciFest project. Paul and Conor will be working hard on developing their projects between now and May. Some 7 million students from all around the world competed in science fairs like SciFest for the opportunity to participate in Intel ISEF. In all, over 1500 students will compete in the event for a top prize of $75,000. They will be judged by a team of over 1200 highly qualified judges. We wish Paul and Conor every success in Los Angeles.