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
Entrants
Ritvik, Noah and Hoa Wen (Third Year) are entered in to the Intermediate, Group, Chemical, Physical & Mathematical Sciences category with their project, “Investigating if AI can help us make better batteries”.
Bláithnáid (TY) has designed a robot to help provide assistance to older people called “Helper 347”. Bláithnáid is entered in the Intermediate Individual, Health & Wellbeing category.
Liam and Joseph, (TY) are entered in to the Intermediate, Group, Technology category with their project, “Sienna: Your dynamic AI Voice companion – Redefining Personal Assistance”.
Stratford’s fourth project, (Second Year) Ciara’s project title is “ISL (Irish Sign Language) Translator and is entered in the Junior, Individual, Techology section.
Judging
Judging begins on Wednesday 10th January and the doors open to the public from Thursday 11th – 13th January.
It is Liam and Joseph’s second time to be invited to BTYSTE and for the rest of our students it is their first experience!
We wish each of them the very best of luck in this exciting competition! Stratford is very proud of you all!
The 1st years completed a zombie lab today where they used their scientific methods and thinking to identify patient zero from the zombie suspects. Using measuring skills, pH, observation skills and much more they successfully identified the source of the outbreak!
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The TY Horticulture class were out in the Autumn sunshine planting Spring bulbs using the chaos planting method. This is when a multitude of different spring bulbs (Hyacinths, Daffodils, Tulips, Crocuses, Narcissi) are mixed together and randomly planted so that we have a mixture of flowers and patterns emerging in the spring. It mimics nature and so is more enticing to pollinators and native insects that need the food in Spring.
Stratford is celebrating Maths Week 2026 (12th - 18th October) with daily activities around the school, at breaktimes and in Maths classes! The tutor-time daily quiz is proving to be extremely competitive as each form group tries to solve it and then run to find Ms Matthews in order to win the box of chocolates!
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