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Stand Number: 5200

Project title: Investigating Mycelium Electrical Signals: Developing a digital interface and exploring applications of fungal networks as biohybrid sensors.

Overview: Developing a biohybrid sensor through the amplification and digital to analog conversion of electrical signals produced by stimulated mycelial networks and investigation into the applications.

School Name: Coláiste Choilm

School County: Cork

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Stand Number: 5200

Project Title: Investigating Mycelium Electrical Signals: Developing a digital interface and exploring applications of fungal networks as biohybrid sensors.

Overview: Developing a biohybrid sensor through the amplification and digital to analog conversion of electrical signals produced by stimulated mycelial networks and investigation into the applications.

Lead Student: David Hamilton

School Name: Coláiste Choilm

School County: Cork

Teacher Name: Paudie Scanlon

Project Type: Individual

Age Group: Intermediate

Stand Number: 5201

Project title: The changes in vocal ability during a menstrual cycle

Overview: I plan on measuring just how much a female menstrual cycle affects your vocal ability/range. This is because I have noticed a change in myself.

School Name: Bush Post Primary School

School County: Louth

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Stand Number: 5201

Project Title: The changes in vocal ability during a menstrual cycle

Overview: I plan on measuring just how much a female menstrual cycle affects your vocal ability/range. This is because I have noticed a change in myself.

Lead Student: Aobha-Jane

School Name: Bush Post Primary School

School County: Louth

Teacher Name: Sharon Boyle

Project Type: Individual

Age Group: Intermediate

Stand Number: 5202

Project title: 'Crisis Crunch' - A Healthier and Sustainable Alternative for Emergency Relief

Overview: This project offers a sustainable, cost-effective food source for emergency relief by fortifying biscuits with dehydrated fruit and vegetable peels, enhancing nutrition in affected areas.

School Name: Coláiste Choilm

School County: Cork

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Stand Number: 5202

Project Title: 'Crisis Crunch' - A Healthier and Sustainable Alternative for Emergency Relief

Overview: This project offers a sustainable, cost-effective food source for emergency relief by fortifying biscuits with dehydrated fruit and vegetable peels, enhancing nutrition in affected areas.

Lead Student: Dania Ahmad

School Name: Coláiste Choilm

School County: Cork

Teacher Name: Karina Lyne

Project Type: Individual

Age Group: Intermediate

Stand Number: 5203

Project title: The impact of diet interventions on 2km rowing performance.

Overview: Rowers often face challenges maintaining optimal performance, and diet plays a crucial role. This project aims to investigate the impact of specific dietary modifications.

School Name: Loreto Secondary School

School County: Cork

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Stand Number: 5203

Project Title: The impact of diet interventions on 2km rowing performance.

Overview: Rowers often face challenges maintaining optimal performance, and diet plays a crucial role. This project aims to investigate the impact of specific dietary modifications.

Lead Student: Freya Lysaght

School Name: Loreto Secondary School

School County: Cork

Teacher Name: Ciara Motherway

Project Type: Individual

Age Group: Intermediate

Stand Number: 5204

Project title: A novel approach to regenerative agriculture through the use of Comfrey as a sustainable soil enhancer.

Overview: A comprehensive investigation into the use of Comfrey, a sustainable biological soil enhancer, as an alternative to artificial fertilisers in agriculture.

School Name: C.B.S. Thurles

School County: Tipperary

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Stand Number: 5204

Project Title: A novel approach to regenerative agriculture through the use of Comfrey as a sustainable soil enhancer.

Overview: A comprehensive investigation into the use of Comfrey, a sustainable biological soil enhancer, as an alternative to artificial fertilisers in agriculture.

Lead Student: Luke Blackwell

School Name: C.B.S. Thurles

School County: Tipperary

Teacher Name: Danielle Slattery

Project Type: Individual

Age Group: Intermediate

Stand Number: 5205

Project title: Fashion over Function: Do Polo Wraps cause more harm than good?

Overview: To see if the wearing of Polo Wraps affect the temperature of horses front legs applying my findings to the effect on horses’ tendons.

School Name: Mary Immaculate Secondary School

School County: Clare

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Stand Number: 5205

Project Title: Fashion over Function: Do Polo Wraps cause more harm than good?

Overview: To see if the wearing of Polo Wraps affect the temperature of horses front legs applying my findings to the effect on horses’ tendons.

Lead Student: Katie O'Kane

School Name: Mary Immaculate Secondary School

School County: Clare

Teacher Name: John Sims

Project Type: Individual

Age Group: Intermediate

Stand Number: 5206

Project title: River Creature Crisis

Overview: Surveying a freshwater river for macroinvertebrates, nitrates and nitrites, pH and temperature, while finding the endangered species the European Freshwater Eel during testing.

School Name: St Colman's Community College

School County: Cork

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Stand Number: 5206

Project Title: River Creature Crisis

Overview: Surveying a freshwater river for macroinvertebrates, nitrates and nitrites, pH and temperature, while finding the endangered species the European Freshwater Eel during testing.

Lead Student: Eanna Patrick Maguire

School Name: St Colman's Community College

School County: Cork

Teacher Name: Aidan Noone

Project Type: Individual

Age Group: Intermediate

Stand Number: 5207

Project title: Are environmentally friendly fertilisers a viable alternative: comparing the impact of different fertilisers on crop yield

Overview: The aim of this project is to investigate the effectiveness of various fertilisers on crop yield and comparing those with lower environmental impact.

School Name: Woodbrook College

School County: Wicklow

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Stand Number: 5207

Project Title: Are environmentally friendly fertilisers a viable alternative: comparing the impact of different fertilisers on crop yield

Overview: The aim of this project is to investigate the effectiveness of various fertilisers on crop yield and comparing those with lower environmental impact.

Lead Student: Elodie O’Brien

School Name: Woodbrook College

School County: Wicklow

Teacher Name: Shauna Smyth

Project Type: Individual

Age Group: Intermediate

Stand Number: 5208

Project title: Biofluorescence as Renewable Light Energy Through the Form of Cacti

Overview: This project is connected to the one I did last year on biofluorescence. I worked in the summer, expanding it and finding real life uses.

School Name: Loreto College Swords

School County: Dublin

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Stand Number: 5208

Project Title: Biofluorescence as Renewable Light Energy Through the Form of Cacti

Overview: This project is connected to the one I did last year on biofluorescence. I worked in the summer, expanding it and finding real life uses.

Lead Student: Esha Sibi Mathew

School Name: Loreto College Swords

School County: Dublin

Teacher Name: Niamh Kilcawley

Project Type: Individual

Age Group: Intermediate

Stand Number: 5209

Project title: Vapes - Quantifying damage on developing systems (experimental approach)

Overview: Experiment to empirically explore the damage caused by vape juice (“Vape”) to developing plant, animal & fungal systems.

School Name: Christian Brothers College

School County: Cork

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Stand Number: 5209

Project Title: Vapes - Quantifying damage on developing systems (experimental approach)

Overview: Experiment to empirically explore the damage caused by vape juice (“Vape”) to developing plant, animal & fungal systems.

Lead Student: Max Power

School Name: Christian Brothers College

School County: Cork

Teacher Name: Vicki Hennessy

Project Type: Individual

Age Group: Intermediate

Stand Number: 5210

Project title: Ridiculing RICE - Producing a Proper Protocol for Acute Soft Tissue Injuries

Overview: My project aims to investigate whether the current protocol widely used for acute soft tissue injuries (RICE) is best practice.

School Name: Mount St Michael

School County: Cork

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Stand Number: 5210

Project Title: Ridiculing RICE - Producing a Proper Protocol for Acute Soft Tissue Injuries

Overview: My project aims to investigate whether the current protocol widely used for acute soft tissue injuries (RICE) is best practice.

Lead Student: Chloe Cantillon

School Name: Mount St Michael

School County: Cork

Teacher Name: Alan O’ Rourke

Project Type: Individual

Age Group: Intermediate

Stand Number: 5211

Project title: Rush To Renewable: An investigation into the biofuel potential from invasive farmland weeds such as rush and dock leaves

Overview: This project investigates the production of bioethanol from fermenting docks and rushes with the aim of producing biofuel as a renewable source of energy.

School Name: Colaiste Treasa

School County: Cork

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Stand Number: 5211

Project Title: Rush To Renewable: An investigation into the biofuel potential from invasive farmland weeds such as rush and dock leaves

Overview: This project investigates the production of bioethanol from fermenting docks and rushes with the aim of producing biofuel as a renewable source of energy.

Lead Student: Jack Rahilly

School Name: Colaiste Treasa

School County: Cork

Teacher Name: Brid Anne O'Donoghue

Project Type: Individual

Age Group: Intermediate