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Stand Number: 3525

Project title: The science behind popcorn popping: Determining ideal conditions of temperature, pressure, time, and moisture content.

Overview: Demonstrate how the process of heating and popping popcorn illustrates increasing entropy, moving from an ordered (low entropy) to a disordered (high entropy) state.

School Name: St. Anne's Secondary School

School County: Tipperary

Stand Number: 2113

Project title: Are students struggling to come back to school? A study to see if post-Covid apathy or a rise in illness affects students' attendance.

Overview: A study to see if post Covid illness, apathy or the year students are in affects students' likelihood to attend school.

School Name: St. Anne's Secondary School

School County: Tipperary

Stand Number: 1518

Project title: Addicted? An investigation into the positive and negative impacts of removing student access to their phones using Yondr pouches during the school day

Overview: Does banning phones in schools or using Yondr pouches affect students' mental health, exam results, or social lives?

School Name: St. Brogan's College, Bandon

School County: Cork

Stand Number: 4307

Project title: PM-DAC: A system for removing CO2 from the atmosphere.

Overview: PM-DAC is a Passive & Modular Direct Air Capture framework that reduces the cost of carbon dioxide sequestration in our fight against climate change

School Name: St. Brogan's College, Bandon

School County: Cork

Stand Number: 4107

Project title: What shape of rotors are best for wind generation

Overview: To see if we can improve on the design of wind turbines and see if I can make them more efficient.

School Name: St. Brogan's College, Bandon

School County: Cork

Stand Number: 2600

Project title: Do I have your number one vote and why? A statistical analysis of people’s attitudes towards voting in local and general elections.

Overview: Our project aims to find out about people’s attitudes and habits toward voting in both local and general elections.

School Name: St. Brogan's College, Bandon

School County: Cork

Stand Number: 5514

Project title: Lovely Bubbly Bladderwrack: Investigating the effect of exposure on the size of air bladders on Bladderwrack.

Overview: We will investigate the effect of environmental conditions on the quantity and size of bubbles on bladderwrack seaweed in three different locations.

School Name: St. Joseph's Secondary School Spanish Point

School County: Clare

Stand Number: 5538

Project title: Pea Power: A sustainable protein crop

Overview: The goal of this investigation is to identify a more sustainable plant-based protein source that can help reduce our carbon footprint.

School Name: St. Joseph's Secondary School Tulla

School County: Clare

Stand Number: 2202

Project title: Why the Long Face? Investigating factors pertaining to the trajectories of young female equestrians into elite equestrian disciplines.

Overview: This project explores gender as a mediating factor for success in elite equestrianism and investigates lower female representation at top levels of particular equestrian disciplines

School Name: St. Joseph's Secondary School Tulla

School County: Clare

Stand Number: 3405

Project title: Bioelectrical Production: Microbial Fuel Cells (MFCs) as an alternative energy source.

Overview: Investigating the efficiency of Microbial Fuel Cells using different soil types.

School Name: St. Joseph's Secondary School Tulla

School County: Clare