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Tara Mulhall with her project in the RDS (Photo: Martin Connelly)
A Newbridge College student has won two awards in the BT Young Scientist and Technology Exhibition held in the RDS.
Tara Mulhall achieved first place in the Senior Individual category for her project: Forecasting an individual's political leaning based off their social media profile.
Tara also won the Fr Tom Burke Bursary Award.
Shaunak Mohapatra of Confey Community College in Leixlip also received two awards.
The first Award he received was - 2nd in Technology in Intermediate Category while the second Award he received was Special Industry Award from .ie We are Ireland Online (National Registry for Ireland Web domain).
Another Newbridge College pupil Emily Johnson won first prize in the Junior Individual category for her project: Optimising Wind Turbine Efficiency.
Other awards were won for projects presented by students in Celbridge, Leixlip, Maynooth,
Addison Carey of Celbridge Community School was Highly Commended for her project: Sláinte-Link: A Web3 based secure medical records system."
Anna O’Flaherty and Niamh Barry of Maynooth Post Primary School won a Display Award for an investigation into the practicality of proliferating blood transfusions and to discern why there has been a decline of donations in Ireland over recent years.
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