Computer Science

BTYSTE 2024 -The Results are in!

Four Stratford projects qualify for the BT Young Science and Technology Exhibition 2024!!! Watch this space!

EU Code Week: Stratford students discover more block-based programming tools

EU Codeweek (7th - 22nd October) is being celebrated in Computer Studies classes all of this week. Students are exploring a variety of block-based programming websites including Super Coding Ball (programme your own football game!) . 

6th Year student features on front cover of Sunday Business Post's '30 under 30' Tech young guns

Well done to Ayush, who has been included in the Sunday Business Post's '30 under 30' Tech young guns for a third year in a row (and the second year to be included on the front cover!).

Four students reach Bebras National Finals and two prizewinners!

Hearty congratulations to 2nd year students Christopher, Ugo and Nino (12-14 years age category) and to 5th Year student Phoenix (16-18 years age category) who were invited to the Bebras Computational Thinking National Finals. Nino came 1st and Phoenix came 3rd in their respective categories. A phenomenal result!

TY's retro-gaming in Pytch and Raspberry Pi workshop

On Friday, 5th May two Trinity College Computer Science lecturers/researchers visited the TY's in the computer lab to bring to life gaming using the Scratch-to-Python web app called Pytch and Raspberry Pi's.

TY team wins two awards at SciFest@College competition

Four TY teams competed in the SciFest@College competition hosted by TU Dublin (Blanchardstown) on Wednesday, 3rd May. Well done to Rachel, Jamie and Caoimhe who won two awards for their coding project called "Hidden Disabilities" - 1st in the  Intermediate Technology category and a Regeneron special award for Life Sciences!

5th Year student invited to compete in All Ireland Programming Olympiad (AIPO) Final Round

Congratulations to 5th Year Computer Science student Yoan Perenovski who was invited to compete in the Final Round of the 2023 All Ireland Programming Olympiad on 11 March.

5th Years compete in All Ireland Linguistics Olympiad (AILO) preliminary round

On Monday, 23rd January all the 5th years competed in the preliminary round of the All Ireland Linguistics Olympiad. The qualification mark for the National Final this year was 74.9%. While no Stratford student qualified, well done to Sam who just missed out on the Finals, getting 72.98%. So, so close!

Stratford hosts 5th Year Assembly and special BT Young Scientist & Technology Assembly

The 5th Years ably hosted their Assembly on Tuesday 17th January. It was combined with a special BT Young Scientist & Technology Assembly where Ayush, Joseph and Liam spoke about their respective projects. Ayush explained the importance of his project in terms of breast cancer research and we now can see why he was awarded the Best Individual Project and Horizon Student Award for the overall best Biological & Ecological project at BTYSTE 2023. Liam and Joseph demonstrated their projects too and there was much interest! The finalists parents were invited to the assembly too.

Congratulations Ayush Tambde!! Best Individual Project 2023! And to our two 3rd Year Young Scientist Finalists!

Ayush Tambde, aged 17 and in sixth year in Stratford College won the prize for Best Individual, with his project, 'Analysis of single-cell proteomic data to understand the mechanisms of oncogenic transformation and how to control them'. 

Ayush also won the Horizon Student Award for the best overall Biological and Ecological project.