Young Scientist Exhibition

Last Thursday, TYs and second years went on a trip to the BT Young Scientist Exhibition in the RDS. There is a group from TY representing our school in this exhibition. Their experiment was about the 'Ideal Conditions for Learning'.They did their experiment in local primary schools and tested certain variables like lunch, PE, light and music. They were lots of interesting experiments at this exhibition and it was really interesting to look at all of them. Companies like RTE and Road Safety Authority had stands there. The band, Hometown were at the RTE stand and they performed their new single. Ryan Tubridy was also there and people were crowding around him trying to get his picture. We also looked at the Primary School projects, one of them was 'Does the size of your head determine your intelligence?', they measured the size of our heads and in the end the answer was no, it doesn't determine your intelligence, it just depends how you use it. It was a good day out and overall I think people enjoyed it. 

Blog Challenge

I just made a new Voki. See it here: As part of our TY challenge we had to make a voki. This is the one I made. I made a chipmunk but there were loads of other characters to choose from. 

Punchestown

Last Thursday, we went to a Road Safety talk in Punchestown. It was quite a long bus journey to get there. When we arrived, we went inside, the room was set up with different stalls along the walls. There was also a demonstration by the fire brigade on how they take apart cars when they have been in a crash and there is someone trapped inside. They take off the roof and the doors and they break the windshield and windows. While we were walking around the stalls, there was a special guest, Andrew Morley from Home and Away. He was there because although he is an actor he is also a fire fighter in Australia. He told us some stories about what he has experienced while being a fire fighter. Some of the stories were quite detailed, but they really taught about how our actions on the road have an effect on all the other drivers on the road. There were also speeches from the mayor of Kildare, a paramedic, a garda and a firefighter. We were also shown clips of videos to promote road safety. When you hear about things people have experienced in road accidents or while working to help people in an accident, it really hits you how it can happen to absolutely anybody. Hearing stories on the news you think 'that'll never happen to me', but in reality, it can happen to any of us. I think this road safety talk was very inspirational and having the guest speakers definitely made us realise just how dangerous careless driving can be.

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