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THERE was Limerick representation aplenty at the Stripe Young Scientist and Technology Exhibition (YSTE) at the weekend.
Local young minds took home an impressive seven awards from the 62nd instalment of the competition.
Three awards went to Coláiste Chiaráin.
Miles Bueno and Sarah Hurley took both the AerCap sustainable Skies Award and second place in the Senior Technology Group category for their project ‘PowerPredict: Predicting outages up to 10 days in advance’.
Thomas O’Sullivan placed first in the Junior Individual category for his ‘Chirp’ project, described as a low-cost approach to bat monitoring using AI audio analysis.
Four awards went to Newcastle West’s Desmond College, a school which also has a proud history of YSTE success.
Sophie Keane took home the Housing Agency Award and second place in the Senior Individual (Health and Wellbeing) category for her project ‘An effective medical solution for bed bugs’.
Daniel Doherty took home second place in the Junior Individual (Health and Wellbeing) category for his ‘Grip Geenie’ project, which aims to bring “comfort and confidence” to people experiencing grip issues, “one twist at a time”.
Nell McMahon placed third in the Intermediate Individual (Health and Wellbeing) category for her project ‘AsthmaSense: A system for recording and predicting asthma attacks’.
