Today we celebrated the achievements of all our BTYSTE 2024 entrants with a special exhibition in the school hall. Students from all years visited the stands and questioned the teams to find out more about each project, as well as the experience of presenting at Ireland’s most prestigious science and technology exhibition for students.
We also had some exciting news to share about each of our entrants: Joseph and Liam (TY) who won 1st place/Intermediate/Technology/Group & Regeneron special prize for their project - Sienna: Your dynamic AI Voice companion - will be representing Ireland at the International Science & Engineering Fair in Los Angeles later this year.
Blaithnaid (TY) won the BTYSTE 2024 Display Award for her robotics project in the health and wellbeing space.
Ciara (2nd Year) has been invited to attend the eLife exhibition at the end of March (https://elifesciences.org/) . Ciara’s project is an Irish Sign Language translator.
While Ritvik/Hao Wen/Noah (3rd Year) have been invited to enter the UN-UNESCO Young Environmentalists Exhibition (https://ecounesco.ie/) with their AI project on batteries.
Extraordinary results for all, and the whole school is hugely proud.
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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