Project Title:
Radio frequency identification device (RFID) system to prevent mis-fueling of vehicles
Category:
Senior Technology Individual
Students involved:
Shauna Hallinan (Ashford Parish)
Project Details:
A device that emits a visual and audible signal in the event of attempt to introduce an incorrect fuel pump nozzle into a fuel port.
Filling a vehicle fuel tank with an incorrect fuel type is an error that occurs regularly. At best this error results in a situation where the mistake is recognised on the forecourt and the fuel can be pumped out of the tank without damage to the engine. This incurs costs in terms of payment for the removal of the fuel from the tank but also in terms of time lost and refuelling costs, this project proposes to resolve this.
Project Title:
Early Health Indicator For Infants
Category:
Senior Technology Individual
Students involved:
Emily Duffy Knockaderry Parish
Her 4th project in 4 years.
Project Details:
Infants have little means of communication, especially when they are ill, temperature is an excellent indicator of whether a child is ill or otherwise. Often parents only identify an increase in temperature when it is critically high.
This project proposes to integrate a temperature sensor into the waist band of a conventional child’s nappy that will provide instant visual temperature reading each and every time the nappy is changed. I will also implant a urine test strip underneath the first polyester layer of a nappy which will provide parents a method of determining a child’s health at home.
Project Title:
Female Friendly Fone Alert System
Category:
Intermediate Technology Group
Students involved:
Leah Barry (Raheenagh), Aine Upton (Old Mill) & Muireann Tobin (Newcastle West).
Project Details:
Mobile phones were designed for men, several of the features such as the vibrate function were not designed with the female 50.4% of the population in mind.
80% of women carry their phones in their handbag/purse and miss over 50% of incoming calls on a daily basis, our project is to design a device that will alert you to incoming calls by adapting a handbag to vibrate and change colour whilst sending a signal to a key fob.
Project Title:
An investigation into how silage quality influences lactation quality and yield amongst a Dairy Herd
Category:
Intermediate Biological Group
Students involved:
Jamie Campbell(Ardagh), Niamh O Connell (Asketon) Mary O Connor (Foynes)
Project Details:
This project analyses silage from ten farms. The silage was analyzed with the help of Roche’s feeds. The milk records were obtained from each of these farms and all data was analyzed to determine if the quality of silage used influences the lactation records produced.
Project Title:
Tremor Glove
Category:
Intermediate Technology Group
Students involved:
Sophie Bridgeman (Knockaderry) and Caoimhe Danaher (Knockaderry)
Project Details:
The girls have designed a glove that can be used by a person with a hand tremor. The glove reduces the tremor for people who suffer from it. The glove allows a person with a hand tremor to carry out everyday tasks that could otherwise prove very challenging.
Project Title:
Blumet
Category:
Intermediate Technology Group
Students involved:
Amy Ryan (Ardagh), Mairead Ryan (Ardagh) and Amy Ryan (Knockaderry)
Project Details:
The girls have designed an attachment for a cycling helmet that uses wireless technology to light indicators on the helmet that will inform motorists as to which direction a cyclist is turning. it will stop the cyclist having to remove their hands from the handle bars which would increase safety.
Project Title:
Development of a natural PH indicator to detect spoilage in milk.
Category:
Senior Mathematical Physical Group
Students involved:
Siun Ni Cheallaigh (Newcastle West), Roisin Nolan (Kilcoleman) & Alanna Slater (Newcastle West)
Project Details:
Have you ever gone to the fridge to get some milk for your cereal only to find it was gone off but only after you poured it all over the last bowl of cornflakes? Well, as our research discovered, it is a common occurrence despite best before dates. What is required is a visual indicator as to the condition of the milk.
Project Title:
Get the Lead (Pb) Out!
Category:
Senior Technology Individual
Students involved:
Eve Montgomery (Newcastle West), Sophie Leenders (Newcastle West) & Claire Nolan (Newcastle West)
Project Details:
This project plans to establish if the drinking water of the houses in Newcastle West conform to the minimum standards for lead, by taking samples from the houses/ housing estates and having them tested in an approved facilities.
Project Title:
Burnt Bovines
Category:
Junior Biological Group
Students involved:
Jack Corkery (Knockaderry) and Diarmuid O Flynn (Knockaderry)
Project Details:
The boys have carried out an investigation into the photo-sensitive influence of Heracleum mantegazzianum on Cattle.
Project Title:
An Analysis of the Hypoglycin A levels in Sycamore Samara and its Contribution to Equine Atypical Myopathy
Category:
Senior Individual Biological
Students involved:
Stacey Flynn (Templeglantine)
Project Details:
Stacey has carried out an exploratory study investigating the correlation between mass of Samara and Hypoglycin A levels in the seed and seedling of Acer Pseudoplatanus which contribute to Equine Atypical Myopathy.
Project Title:
Can Our Language Think For Us?
Category:
Intermediate Behavioural Individual
Students involved:
Ben Montgomery
Project Details:
I wish to investigate the idea that our spoken or written language can affect our thoughts with certain biases, presuppositions or philosophies or I will see the impressions various languages have of each other i.e. stereotypes.
The effects of sound ranges of languages, the coincidental evolutions of languages and their politics created from any possible stigma attached to the area it came from.
Project Title:
Bee Cool
Category:
Junior Technology Group
Students involved:
Danny Moriarty and David O’Brien
Project Details:
The project looks at a practical way of cooling bee hives during extreme temperature conditions by designing a thermos-regulating device that will aid in maintaining the bee hive at its optimum temperature.
It employs a technique that will eliminate the need for bees to use up unnecessary energy to cool down the hive.
It aims to improve the efficiency at which bees work and overall increase the yields of honey being produced.
Project Title:
A statistical analysis of the Syrian refugee crisis
Category:
Senior Behavioural Group
Students involved:
Niamh Liston and Hannah Barrett
Project Details:
This research will focus on why some EU countries will accept more refugees than others.
In order to answer this question we adopted a similar approach to Mori (2004) who developed an explanatory model as to why some countries admit higher numbers of refugees and asylum seekers.
Mori’s (2004) model suggests that a country’s economy, population density and democratic level are explanatory factors when analyzing the number of asylum seekers they accept. Using statistical quantitative analysis, we will test the impact of the above factors on the number of immigrants EU countries are willing to accept.
We devised a survey aimed at investigating the attitudes of some European citizens towards the refugee crisis that we will analyze using SPSS software.
Project Title:
That’s the Emji’s for you!!
Category:
Junior Behavioural Group
Students involved:
Ciara Brouder and Victoria Brouder
Project Details:
In response to this study The Minister for Education, at the time (2010) Ruairi Quinn, launched The National Strategy to Improve Literacy and Numeracy among children and Young People 2011-2020. This strategy aims to improve literacy skills among young people and the main target was to get in line with International standards.
With this strategy in mind and the growing popularity in the use of emoji among young people, we decided to carry out an investigation into the use of emoji to improve literacy skills among 2nd class students. Emoji is a fantastic tool for younger children who may not have a large vocabulary with which to express themselves when story writing.
Our study is based on a second class in a local primary school. We have received excellent assistance from the teacher. We also received permission from each of the children’s parents to participate in our project. We have introduced emoji flash cards to them and we have been getting them to describe what was being expressed in each flash card.
Our aim is to get to a stage where the kids can make up a story or summarise a nursery rhyme using emojis and analyse the pre and post test results.
Project Title:
An investigation using bull sperm into the biophysical factors that lead to conception in mammals.
Category:
Senior Technology Group
Students involved:
Conor Kennedy, Jack O Connor and Killian McMahon
Project Details:
The boys have designed a fertilisation device that aims to treat infertility in bovines.
The microfluidic device recreates the biophysical factors which have been researched thoroughly by the boys.
The device can be fabricated using the standard soft lithography technique. This technique is used for fabricating or replicating structures using elastomeric stamps, molds and conformable photomasks.