Polytunnel gardening progress for Spring 2025
The TYs have planted potatoes and onions during their horticulture class and these should be ready by May. They've also built some teepees for beans and peas outside.
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TYs attend iWish 2025 - Women in STEM conference
The TY girls and Ms O'Kelly attended the iWish conference in the RDS on Thursday, 6th February for the first time. iWish is a community committed to inspiring young women to consider careers in Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths.
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TYs hike part of the Wicklow Way
Some of the TY boys hiked part of the Wicklow Way with Mr Kelly and Mr Fennell on Tuesday 4th February.
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Women in STEM - visitors join Computer Studies class on Zoom
On Thursday, 23 January the TY girls and 1Y class participated in a Zoom call with Ava (3rd Year UCD Computer Science student) and Jenny (recently graduated from Trinity Engineering) during Computer Studies class.
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Stratford Chess Club begin to play in Chess Tournaments
Congratulations to the Stratford Chess Club who with the support of Mr Barrett and Dr Ryan have begun to compete in Chess Tournaments. Thanks too to the the TYs who take so much time organising the Chess Club every week.
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BTYSTE 2025 - TY students win 2nd prize in Biological & Ecological Sciences, Intermediate, Group category!
Major congratulations to Hao Wen, Ritvik and Noah who won 2nd prize in the Intermediate-Group-Biological & Ecological Sciences category at the BT Young Scientist & Technology Exhibition (BTYSTE) 2025 Awards Ceremony on Friday 10th January with their K.E.V.I.N project and to 3rd year students Ciara and Callum for presenting their excellent BUZZ project to many interested organisations and well-known visitors!
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TY students reach semi-finals of Certified Irish Angus Schools competition in Airfield Estate
Congratulations to Omri and Paddy in Transition Year who reached the semi-finals of the Certified Irish Angus Schools competition on 9th January. The competition challenges students to rear five Irish Angus calves over 18 months while completing a research project.
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TY French debates!
Throughout the first term, Transition Year students explored the topic of Gastronomy in French and ended their unit with a debate opposing 4x and 4y on the following motion : "Les services de livraison de plats à emporter tels que Deliveroo ont remplacé la convivialité qu'on trouve chez nous ou au bistrot".
Two Stratford projects competing in 2025 BT Young Scientist & Technology Exhibition (BTYSTE)
We're all thrilled for our 3rd and 4th Year students who are competing in this year's BT Young Scientist & Technology Exhibition, starting 8th January to 11th January! Best of luck to Ciara and Callum with their BUZZ project and to Noah, Ritvik and Hao Wen with their K.E.V.I.N. project.
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TYs compete in SciFest@Schools demonstrating their coding projects
Over the past two days the TYs have demonstrated their code, design process logs and posters to two SciFest@School judges. There were lots of prizes and the winners will go on to represent Stratford College at the SciFest@College competition next May in TU Dublin (Blanchardstown campus).
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