{"id":4190,"date":"2020-10-02T08:52:24","date_gmt":"2020-10-02T07:52:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/moatecs.com\/?p=4190"},"modified":"2020-10-02T08:52:24","modified_gmt":"2020-10-02T07:52:24","slug":"moate-ty-students-awarded-for-their-projects-at-scifest-including-runner-up-best-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moatecs.com\/moate-ty-students-awarded-for-their-projects-at-scifest-including-runner-up-best-project\/","title":{"rendered":"Moate TY students awarded for their projects at SciFest, including Runner-Up Best Project"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Moate TY students awarded for their projects at SciFest, including Runner-Up Best Project<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Judging and awarding of the SciFest Regional Final was done virtually this year due to COVID restrictions. The event usually takes place in the Athlone Institute of Technology. Five groups of TY students submitted their projects and made videos of their main findings for the panel of judges.<\/p>\n<p>With their project \u2018<em>Dispel the Smell of Goat\u2019s Milk\u2018, <\/em>Emily Ray and Sharon Seery won the Runner-up Best Project Award . The students will proceed to the National Final of SciFest this November.<\/p>\n<p>Rachel McCann and Niamh Collins were given a Merit award for their project \u2018Sitka vs Broadleaf: The Impact of Ireland\u2019s Forestry Plan on Biodiversity\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>Emma Keenan and Hannah Malone received an Environmental Award for their project \u2018 <em>Does Seaweed contain the Solution to Ireland\u2019s Fertiliser Run-off Problem?\u2019<\/em>. Cliona McCormack and Emily Korzeniewski also received an Environmental Award for their project <em>\u2018Effects of Dredging on the River Shannon\u2019. <\/em><\/p>\n<p>Aoife Murray and Megan Clinton were awarded a Chemistry Prize for investigating <em>\u2018Can Biochars Derived from Farm Waste Reduce Greenhouse Emissions from Irish Soils?<\/em>\u2019 As a result of this achievement, MCS was awarded the RSC School Chemistry Award.<\/p>\n<p>Congratulations to all the students involved and their supporting teachers Ms Maire\u00e1d Cusack and Ms Margaret Mandal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Moate TY students awarded for their projects at SciFest, including Runner-Up Best Project Judging and awarding of the SciFest Regional [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4185,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moatecs.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Aoife-Murray-Megan-Clinton-Chemistry-Award-Copy.jpg?fit=2080%2C1560&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moatecs.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4190"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/moatecs.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/moatecs.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moatecs.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moatecs.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4190"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/moatecs.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4190\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moatecs.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moatecs.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moatecs.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moatecs.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}