ISTA Award

Irish Science Teachers’ Award winners: Brothers, Harry, James and Jack Knoblauch, St Brendan’s College, Killarney, Co. Kerry with Rory Geoghegan, ISTA. Teacher: Marie Vaughan

Students: Mark Roche and Cormac Ward, School: Avondale Community College, Rathdrum, Co. Wicklow

Teacher: Aoife Sullivan

Student: Ria Reddy School: Mount Anville Secondary School¸ Dublin 14

Teacher: Bernard Crampton

“For the last three years, the winners of SciFest have gone on to represent Ireland at the Intel International Science & Engineering Fair. All of these winners have consistently demonstrated the excellent creative thinking skills of our second level students and the dedication that their parents and teachers have to promoting inquiry based learning. SciFest creates opportunities for students to work cooperatively with others on areas of local, national and global scientific and engineering interest and Intel is delighted to be a part of this national initiative.”

Leonard Hobbs, Public Affairs Manager, Intel Ireland

SciFest National Final—SciFest@SFI Discover 2014—Excellence in STEM Awards

All 38 students who exhibited at SciFest@SFI Discover were presented with Excellent in STEM Award plaques. These were presented by Margie McCarthy, Head of Education and Public Engagement, SFI.

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1. Carla Kaveh and Emma Wilson, Santa Sabina Dominican College,

Sutton, Dublin (Teacher: Paul Nugent) 2. Kate Culligan, Clodagh Hunt-Sheridan, Dominican College, Griffith

Avenue, Dublin (Teacher: Michael Moriarty) 3. Erica Neilan and Nicole Dolan, Meán Scoil Muire gan Smál,

Co. Rocommon (Teacher: Padraig Harlow) 4. Ceili Cowan, Kayleigh Bourke, Kenneth Conlon, Coláiste Dún

Iascaigh, Cashel Road, Cahir, Co. Tipperary (Teacher: Rachel Burke) 5

5. Diarmuid Geever, St Nathy's College, Ballaghaderreen, Co. Roscommon (Teacher: Oonagh Redmond) 6. Ben Brown, Sean Hannon and Cian Dunne, Blackrock College, Co Dublin (Teacher: Hugo Rowsome) 4

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