New ‘perpetual’ trophy for BT Young Scientist and Technology Exhibition

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Mary Mullaghy 18 February 2014

Jowita Rogalska, a 19-year-old student, has been given the honour of having her design entitled ‘Genius is found in Simplicity!’ chosen for the brand new trophy to mark the BT Young Scientist & Technology exhibition’s 50th anniversary.

The Southern Regional College student based in Lurgan was selected from a competitive panel of 86 other finalists, which had been whittled down to a shortlist of five.

Speaking about her achievement, Jowita explained what her inspiration was for choosing the design: “I wanted to create a trophy design that demonstrated innovative flair but also a sense of simplicity so I experimented with a number of ideas before arriving at my finished design genius is found in simplicity.”

Artistic judging panel

The judging panel for the design has been headed by one of Ireland’s most influential artists, Graham Knuttel. Knuttel commended all the artists for their work in the fields of art and science, which he believes are intrinsically linked: “The calibre of entries received was truly incredible and we had a difficult job in selecting the overall winner. “Creativity is an all-encompassing concept that spans both art and science and this design competition was an excellent way to show budding designers that science can be a real source of inspiration for their works.”

The panel also consisted of Colm O’Neill, CEO, BT Ireland, and Dr Tony Scott, co-founder of the BT Young Scientist and Technology Exhibition.

Students from institutes of technology across Ireland, as well as regional colleges in Northern Ireland were among those eligible to compete.

The shortlist of five featured names from across the island with the other students just missing out on first spot, including Hannah Robinson from North West Regional College, Daniel Lawlor from Carlow IT, and Kirsten Donaldson and Barry Cunningham, both from Southern Regional College.

As the overall winner of the trophy design competition, Jowita receives a commemorative trophy of her own, a MacBook laptop and, of course,  the honour of having her trophy design created and presented to the winners of the BT Young Scientist and Technology Exhibition from 2014 to 2016.

 

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The winner of the 48th annual BT Young Scientist & Technology Exhibition 2012 were Leaving Cert students Eric Doyle and Mark Kelly, from Synge Street CBS, Dublin 8 have taken home the top prize for their project entitled, “Simulation accuracy in the gravitational many-body problem” in the Chemical, Physical & Mathematical Sciences category, senior section.

Eric & Mark were presented with a cheque for €5,000, tickets to the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games, the opportunity to represent Ireland at the 24th European Union Young Scientist competition taking place in Bratislava in September and a Waterford crystal trophy.
Almost 1,200 students from 30 counties covering 550 projects from 221 schools nationwide competed for the coveted title ‘Winner of the BT Young Scientist & Technology Exhibition 2012.’
Colm O’Neill, CEO, BT Ireland said, “The passion and enthusiasm we have seen from the students taking part this week has been outstanding. This year’s exhibition was bigger and better than ever before and the reaction from the students, teachers and visitors to the RDS this week has been amazing. We live in a continually changing world and what we have seen from the students this week is that they have the foresight and innovation to come up with real problem solving ideas that can help Ireland to grow and develop into the future. Huge congratulations to Eric & Mark and all the winners. I look forward to watching their progress in the coming years,” he added.
Professor Pat Guiry, Head Judge, Chemical, Physical & Mathematical category said, “The project develops a novel mathematical approach which has a diverse range of applications from satellite placement to predicting network congestion in telecommunications. In the opinion of the judging panel, an exceptional level of mathematical proficiency was demonstrated. Starting from Euler’s investigation in 1760 on the motion of planets, they simulated this complicated “many-body” problem using advanced computation and evaluated the accuracy of the solutions. Of particular note, they included an in-built accuracy estimation in their solution.”
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