Tommy Collison

Sitting here in the hotel room, hoping I get this typed up in the little hour-long window of opportunity I have to use the internet (stupid voucher pass). The Young Scientist is officially finished, and my poster is lying, rolled-up, on my bed. I do love the Exhibition, despite how physically tiring it is and how your brain feels like fuzz because you’ve had to be switched on for so long. But hey, at least I have a day to recover before diving back into school.

It was fantastic to win third in my category. One of the main findings of my project was that despite high internet usage (94% had internet both at home and at school) and high social network usage (82% a member of at least 1 social network), only 34% read blogs and 7% wrote blogs. It’s nice to bring them to the forefront of people’s consciousness, even for a moment. It’d be awesome just to get more people just to even try writing one.

Those stats my the way are from my survey results, 1,781 respondents, from 11 schools over 5 counties. Read more in my project report book.

I think that now the Exhibition is over, I’ll release my project report book as a PDF online here so that people who want to take a look at my findings can do so. I’ll do that Monday, because if I do it now it’ll get buried by other posts and those who don’t read this blog on weekends.

For the rest of the evening I think I’ll do absolutely nothing strenuous. Once Dad gets back from the match (Leinster vs. some other team) we’ll grab some food and head to bed. It’s the first night since Tuesday that I’ve been able to go to bed without setting an alarm.

It will be beautiful.

See you tomorrow for MusicSunday!