Three students from Kinsale Community College have been awarded a first prize in Biology at the EU Young Scientist Competition in Prague.
The 2013 winners of the BT Young Scientist competition; Ciara Judge, Emer Hickey and Sophie Healy-Thow, beat off intense competition from over 120 students from 38 countries to win the award.
The prize is worth 7,000 euro, and the girls get an all expenses paid trip to the London International Youth Science Forum.
Ciara, Emer and Sophie from Kinsale Community College, Cork won the coveted 2013 BT Young Scientist & Technology Exhibition prize for their project entitled, ‘A statistical investigation of the effects of diazotroph bacteria on plant germination.’
Their project investigated the benefits of diazotrophs during the germination stage of plant growth.
The girls statistically analysed the results of their investigations using the student T-test.
