Write a commentThree of St Coleman's top young scientists, Barry Carragher, Darren Luckie and Ronan Barr went to the BT Young Scientist Competition being held in Dublin last week.
Under the direction of Mr Darragh Corvan and Mr Michael Mc Laughlin, the three Year 8 boys have put together an impressive display of their work using the College’s telescope and a web cam. The aim was to produce a guide that local schools can use to undertake similar projects.
The boys used a telescope that was donated to us by the Society for Popular Astronomy ‘SPA’ and a ‘Microsoft Live Cam VX-3000’ web camera. The Dundalk institute of Technology Astronomy Department were extremely impressed and gave a talk to the boys on astronomy.
The boys learned an awful lot about the competition and hope to go back next year and improve on this year’s performance.
