Sci Fest

On 10th of May all of the TY's Head off to Tallaght to take part in the sci-fest science competition. I was in a group with Roisin and we sort of adopted Aoife B into our group because her science project didn't get accepted. :(

At the start of the year at the young scientist competition me and Roisin's project didn't get accepted because we were too good :L but we have been working at our project so we got accepted this time. At the young scientist competition only one group got through so this time only one group didn't get through so we were all happy. Me and Roisin we struggling a bit because a few day before we hadn't even got our poster done so we were running around , trying to get it finished on time. We did anyway so we were all happy. On the day of Sci-fest we would be leaving the school at 8 o'clock which was a bit early seeing as the competition started at like 10. But when people arrived at like 7:45 they looked really awake but some others didn't including me because I had to drag myself out of the bed at like 7:30 and got there like just in time. We were only on the coach for like 30 minutes and when we arrived at I.T.T we were told by one of the organisers where we would have our stand. Me, Roisin and Aoife we were in the Staff Room on the second floor. We got a book and a free goodies bag as well. We got like pens and badges and a furry sticker thing :)

When we got upstairs, we were a bit confused because we weren't sure whether we had to share a table with another person or not and the board behind us was shared as well. When we were all settled the like chairman of the competition had all of the contestants from all over Ireland standing around a balcony and he just sort of explained what the plan was for the day and when lunch was. Over the course of the day me and Roisin got interviewed by about 7 judges. Roisin did most of the talking because I get really nervous when I have to talk :P

Lunch was at like 12.30 to 1.30 so we all went down to the cafeteria which was huge and got like muffins and drink and stuff. We then went around looking at the college and some of us got lost including me. We also went to shows in our groups. We had tickets to go to like chemistry shows but we only went to one. In the first one there was 3 guys and they just sort of showed us these cool chemistry experiments. They were setting fire to helium balloons and spilling liquid nitrogen all over the place. It was completely safe unless you actually touched it, but when he spilled it, it changed from a liquid to a gas in like less than a second. It was so cool and he explained everything in so much detail so it was easy to understand things. The picture below shows Liquid nitrogen changing from a liquid to a gas.

When it was nearing the end of the day at about 2, we had to go and take our posters down so we could go to the awards ceremony. St. Wolstans won like 4 or 5 awards and me and Roisin were one of the groups. Our project "How different foods affect the Larynx" won 1st prise in the Physics intermediate category. We were so happy and we got our picture taken in front of everyone and we got two 15 euro vouchurs. We weren't excpecting to win but we were happy we did. All in all the day turned out to be a very good day and I really enjoyed it. Well done to everyone who entered, won and participated from all schools. :) Me and Roisin accepting our prize :)