Computer Science

Stratford wins at BTYSTE!

Huge congratulations to Liam and Joseph (TY) for their two wins at the BT Young Scientist & Technology Exhibition this evening and to Bláithnáid for her Display Award!

BTYSTE 2024

Stratford College is thrilled to have four projects invited to exhibit at the BT Young Scientist & Technology Exhibition this month. This is a huge result for the school and comes after the best individual project last year was won by our former 6th Year student Ayush Tambde. There were over 2,000 entries with 550 projects selected for the final exhibition. 

Ms O'Kelly

TY's compete in SciFest@Schools with their coding projects

The TY's competed in the SciFest@Schools competition on Monday, 4th December showcasing their coding projects. From AI chatbots to saving the fishes, this year's coding projects (all through Scratch) showed how creative the TYs were with the variety of projects on show.

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.