SciFest 2015 - Technology takes 1st Place.

Jenny Clements and David Wood impress this year's SciFest judges with their working application called Find My Car.

Their winning app helps you to find the location of your car using GPS linked to Google maps. Their vision for the app is that it can be used in many different scenarios such as locating your rental car.

David and Jenny developed the app themselves, initially using Python and then using MIT's famous app development kit "app inventor".

On show today was their fully working android version.

David and Jenny explain how they developed the app and how it works.

Second place was Emma Bowie with her project on the "Factors That Influence Choice Of Language For Junior Cert". The factors that contributed to her prize included an excellent presentation and a very good survey.

Third place went to Aoife Gallagher for her project "Building A Gel Electrophoreses To Distinguish DNA". Aofie's knowledge of her subject combined with the interesting nature of her project contributed to her win.

The judges had a difficult task choosing the winners this year. On the panel were, from left to right, past pupil Mark Doolan from the class of 2008, who has a degree from Maynooth University in Chemistry and Biology and currently works as an emergency technician, Noreen Gibson a parent and representative of from the parents association, Sheila Porter, SciFest CEO and science teacher and Head of Science at KH, Ciaran Whelan.

This year's environmental award went to Luke Harris, Craig Adams and Imran Jiwo for their project on "What Fertilizer Can Do For Your Lawn". The judges commented that the team's project was well researched.

Five highly recommended awards were also awarded to:

Ben Buller, Kevin Marcoi and Luke Henry for their Trebuchet project... and as they demonstrated IT WORKED !!!

Alexandra Zeygarnik for her project on the "bouba kiki effect" which is the non-arbitrary mapping between speech sounds and the visual shape of objects. You can read more about it here on Wikipedia -> bouba kiki effect

Moyo Mobalaji, Maeve Macken and Ella Murtagh were highly recomended for their project on "Do Electronic Devices Affect Our Sleep?"

"How Breakfast effects your performance when running" - Jamie Cullen

Sky Wrafter, Anna Fitzpatrick and Mathew Farrell - Dyslexia.

You can see more images for the day in our SciFest 2015 Gallery