After months of hard work coding and designing their Scratch projects, the TY's were ready to present their work to the two SciFest@Schools judges on Thursday 9th December.
The two judges - TU Dublin Computer Science lecturer, Brian Gillespie and SciFest Project Manager, Hugo Rowsome - joined the classroom online. Each of the five groups shared out their screen to explain and demonstrate their Scratch projects, including their design process and the technical challenges that they faced.
The standard of all the projects and presentations was extremely high. After considerable deliberation by the judges the following groups were awarded prizes:
1st Prize: Brendan, Josh, Hugo (with their ground-breaking use of webcam and Wii-like exercise game)
2nd Prize: Yoan, Charlie, Luke (with an extremely involved Junior Cycle quiz game)
AbbVie Young Innovator Award: Phoenix, Sam, Praise (with a super-charged solar-system game)
Well done also to Daniel, Dean and Tyrese who developed a very detailed Parkour game; and to Leo, Alex and Christopher who developed an innovative maze game.
The next stage will be the SciFest@College competition in May 2022.
Ms O'Kelly
Our Transition Year (TY) students hosted a successful coffee morning in the school hall to raise funds for Our Lady's Hospice & Care Services in Harold's Cross. Year groups visited the hall in turn for tea, coffee, and treats. Thanks to Ms. Maxwell, Ms. Talbot, Ms. McGill and all our TY students.
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On Wednesday, the 23rd of September, a group of us TY students had the opportunity to welcome Irish writer Elaine Garvey to our school, where we took part in a two-hour workshop with her. On Friday the 25th of September, we embarked on our weekly trip which brought us northside, to Glasnevin Cemetery, so write Ianis, Vihaan and Matthew B (TY Weekly editors).
Some of our Chinese students celebrated the Mooncake Festival this morning with traditional treats, and stories about the holiday. The round shape of the mooncakes mirrors the bright harvest moon, symbolizing family togetherness and completeness.
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