Castlebar students' app wins Trailblazers award at BT Young Scientist ^Featured

The app with the potential to save lives was created by Luke Benson, Donnchadh Barry and Paul McDonagh, 5th year students at the Castlebar college.

The app detects when a person with an underlying illness collapses, and then contacts emergency services and tells passersby how they can help.

You can view a video of how the app works at the end of this article.

Three other Mayo entries were Highly Commended:

St Joseph's Secondary School, Charlestown
An Investigation Into The Posturing Behaviour Of Farrowing Sows And The Interactions of Sows With Their Piglets. 

Biological and Ecological, Junior 
Student: Rebecca McDonnell

Rice College, Westport

Response In Native Fish To Environmental Stress. 
Biological and Ecological, Intermediate  
Students: James Poole, John Hewer

Overall, Mayo was very well represented at this year BT Young Scientist Exchibition with two schools Colaiste Chomain, Rossport, and St Joseph's Secondary School, Charlestown, have multiple entries.

Students, teachers and parents can be very proud of the high standard of projects exhibited by secondary schools from Mayo.

The following were the other secondary schools from County Mayo that exhibited at the 2012 BT Young Scientist and Technology Exhibition:

Minister Ring with students from St. Gerald’s College, Newport Road, Castlebar. Pictured Minister of State Michael Ring T.D., Declan Askin (Teacher), Luke Benson, Donnachadh Barry, Paul McDonagh Project: iCollaspe: A mobile phone application for assisting those who are liable to collapse.

Davitt College, Castlebar

Similarities of the Irish Famine (1845-1852) and East Africa Famine (20 July, 2011-present).
Social and Behavioural Sciences, Intermediate 
Students: Michelle Tolan, Eleanor Arrowsmith, Hannah Sweeney

St Joseph's Secondary School, Charlestown

Advertising: What works? 
Social and Behavioural Sciences, Intermediate 
Students: Cailín Durkan, Michaela Leonard, Aileen Casey

St Joseph's Secondary School, Charlestown
 
Financial Maths: Interactive Learning Versus Traditional Classroom Learning: You Be The Judge! 
Social and Behavioural Sciences, Intermediate St Joseph's Secondary School.
Students: Jacqueline Brennan, Hannah Duffy, Katie McDonnell

Colaiste Chomain, Rossport

Minister Ring with Deirbhíle Ní Gherbháin agus Bean Uí Lían (Teacher) from Colaiste Chomain, Rossport. Deirbhíle's project was an Individual entry: ‘Tinfoil for Brains’: An investigation into the release of Aluminium from everyday tinfoil on contact with food.

Colaiste Chomain, Rossport

"Prátaí Plaisteach" fiosrú ar láidreacht an bith-phláisteach déanta ó stáirse prátaí.
Chemical, Physical & Mathematical Sciences, Junior 
Students: Séamus Muirithe, Keith Naughton 

Colaiste Chomain, Rossport 

'Bainne Greamannach' Iniuchnú Ar Cé chomh Eifeachtach Atá Gliú Déanta ó Bhainne.
Chemical, Physical & Mathematical Sciences, Intermediate 
Students: Tracey Ní Mhóráin, Shauna Ní Sheibhleáin 

Davitt College, Castlebar

The Effect Of Caffeine On The Rate of Seed Germination. 
Biological and Ecological, Intermediate  
Students: Fintan Murphy, Keith Mulchrone, Shane Nugent

Rice College, Westport

Response In Native Fish To Environmental Stress. 
Biological and Ecological, Intermediate  
Students: James Poole, John Hewer 

St Muredach's College, Ballina

A Quantitative Study Of The Sand Organisms That Link The Food Chain In The River Moy. 
Biological and Ecological, Senior  
Students: Rory Upton, Cillian Upton, Brian Lavelle