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Two Young Scientist videos

Two quick videos from the Exhibition – the first is with Adrian Weckler (of the Sunday Business Post) and the second is with Donna McCabe and Science.ie.

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Young Scientist Report

Here is the report on my Young Scientist project, entitled Examining the Attitudes of Secondary School Students toward Blogging. Some background: To do this project, a two page questionnaire was posted out to 13 schools from 5 counties (a copy … Continue reading

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Young Scientist, days 3 and 4

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, … Continue reading

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Young Scientist, day 2

I’m not going to lie to you. Having no internet at the hotel makes Tommy a very unhappy bunny. It also impedes this blog’s progress. Indeed, in what experts are calling ‘pretty fail’, I’m stuck doing the day 2 post … Continue reading

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What marks the beginning?

..of the Young Scientist? The one-page proposal? Being accepted? Doing the project? Printing the project? Arriving at the RDS? If it’s printing it, then this post marks the beginning of the *breath* 2010 BT Young Scientist and Technology Exhibition :) … Continue reading

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Young Scientist

The wheels are turning. The questionnaires are converted into one big Excel file. The graphs are being made up and the Project Report Book is taking shape. 1,769 questionnaires came back from the different schools, which all had to be … Continue reading

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Required

As I suspected, some changes have been made to the questionnaire; and I start printing it out tonight. Where I plan on making my study stand out is the sheer volume. If I can get 2,000 (an entirely reachable number) … Continue reading

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Questionnaire

So, my Young Scientist project (“examining the attitudes of secondary school students toward blogging”) is chugging along nicely; I’m hoping to hand out the questionnaire to the first school tomorrow; which should really get the wheels turning. Here’s what it … Continue reading

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Success!

Today, the Young Scientist teacher took me out of Spanish to tell me that my Young Scientist project, which is entitled Examining the attitudes of secondary school students toward blogging, was accepted, and I’ll be presenting it at the RDS … Continue reading

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Logo

Weird white fuzzy stuff at the bottom is, in fact a carpet What you see before you is a TrustTommy logo that one of the teachers made for me in school, because he’s awesome. He’s been a reader for a … Continue reading

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