Picture: Domnick Walsh
Three Killarney students have emerged triumphant from the SciFest finals at the Kerry campus of the Munster Technological University and they will now represent the county in the national finals in November.
Rachel Griffin, Luke O’Sullivan and Liam Waldron, from Killarney Community College, submitted a project entitled Self-Similarity and Fractal Geometry: Roots of the Pythagorean Theorem which was deemed a winner,
SciFest is an all-island initiative which fosters active, collaborative and inquiry-based learning among second-level students. The programme operates throughout the school year and, being locally and regionally based and free-to-enter, it is highly inclusive and accessible.
Winners from the national finals will get to compete at the Regeneron International Science and Engineering Fair (ISEF) in America and in the Hong Kong Global Youth Science and Technology Bowl (GYSTB) as well as attending the Long Night of Science in Berlin and participate in the Broadcom Masters International Programme in America.
The SciFest programme is funded primarily by Intel Ireland and Boston Scientific.
Professor Maggie Cusack, President MTU, acknowledged the huge amount of effort by all involved evident from the quality of projects submitted and thanked the teachers for mentoring the projects.
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