Main Awards
| Award Title | Category | School | County | Project Title | Student(s) | Video |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Young Scientist & Technologist(s) of the Year | Health & Wellbeing | Mercy Secondary School Mounthawk | Kerry | GlioScope: Multi-task Deep Learning and Causal AI for Glioma & Glioblastoma Profiling | Aoibheann Daly |  |
| Best Group | Technology | Ursuline College | Sligo | Sheep Strength II: Using Sheep Wool to Reinforce Concrete | Aoife Fadian Jessica O'Connor |  |
| Runner-up Individual | Chemical, Physical & Mathematical Sciences | St. Mary's C.B.S. | Laois | There's Plenty of Room To Break Through at the Bottom | Joshua Corbett |  |
| Runner-up Group | Chemical, Physical & Mathematical Sciences | Stratford College | Dublin | A simulation of Axion Monodromy inflation to investigate whether it can describe our Universe | Ritvik Venkateshwar Hao Wen Liu |  |
Gold Partner Awards
| Award Title | School | County | Project Title | Student(s) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Abbvie Health & Wellbeing Award | Moate Community School | Westmeath | Ferma-Aid: Using Fermentation to Produce Nutritious, Easily Digestible and Sustainable Emergency Food Aid | Shona Kinahan Ella Hamm Mairead Cusack |
| Kerrygold Social & Behavioural Award | Coláiste Mhuire Mullingar | Westmeath | Investigating exposure, intergroup threat and rejection in adolescent male attitude development | Seán Murphy |
| Smurfit Westrock, Chemical, Physical & Mathematical Award | St. Mary's C.B.S. | Laois | There's Plenty of Room To Break Through at the Bottom | Joshua Corbett |
| The Analog Devices Technology Award | Celbridge Community School | Kildare | Developing a Compression Pipeline for deploying Neural Networks in Wearable Sleep Apnoea Detection. | Addison Carey |
| The Amgen Biological & Ecological Award | Sutton Park School | Dublin | Lily Pads to Lifesavers - The Healing Power of Nuphar Lutea | Nadia Salamat |
Educator of Excellence awards
| Award Title | School | County | Teacher Name |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kerrygold Social & Behavioural Educator of Excellence Award | Greystones Community College | Wicklow | Rebecca Wray |
| Abbvie Health & Wellbeing Educator of Excellence Award | Coláiste Choilm | Cork | Karina Lyne |
| Smurfit Westrock Chemical, Physical & Mathematical Science Educator of Excellence Award | St Mary's College | Derry-Londonderry | Ann Blanking MBE |
| Analog Devices Technology Educator of Excellence Award | The Institute of Education | Dublin | Catriona Hendry |
| Amgen Biological & Ecological Educator of Excellence Award | St Josephs College | Tipperary | Mary Gorey |
Best School Awards
| Award Title | School | County |
|---|---|---|
| Best School Northern Ireland | Abbey Christian Brothers School | Down |
| Best School Republic of Ireland | Moate Community School | Westmeath |
Founders' Medal
Presented to Julie Sinnamon
Fr. Tom Burke Bursary award
| Award Title | Category | School | County | Project Title | Student(s) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fr Tom Burke Bursary Award | Social & Behavioural Sciences | Cashel Community School | Tipperary | Assessing how well Junior Cycle prepares students for Leaving Cycle | Oisin Howley |
Special Awards
| Award Title | Sponsor | School | County | Project Title | Student(s) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aer Lingus Future Innovators Award | Aer Lingus | Cookstown High School | Tyrone | TrailTalk: Your World, Your Stories | Luke Johnston Daniel Brownlee |
| The AerCap Sustainable Skies Award | AerCap | Colaiste Chiarain | Limerick | PowerPredict: Predicting Outages up to 10 days in advance | Miles Bueno Sarah Hurley |
| The AIB Award | AIB | St. Gerard's School | Wicklow | RePortfolio: An AI-Driven Financial Portfolio Reporter | Luke Redmond |
| AirNav Ireland Safety Innovation Award | AirNav | Presentation College Headford | Galway | Memory metal crumple zones | Eve Kennedy |
| The AMD Award | AMD | CBS The Green | Kerry | AI-Based Defence System Against Asian Hornet Predation on Honeybee Colonies | Alex O'Connor |
| Democracy & Elections Award | An Coimisiún Toghcháin, The Electoral Commission | Boyne Community School | Meath | Emoji Politics: How Informal Speeches, Emojis & Messages Affect Perception of Political Messages Among Irish Youth | David Kincius Kipras Samoska Jack Turner |
| The Atlantic Technological University Award | Atlantic Technological University | Sandford Park School | Dublin | Artificial Intelligence: Help or Hindrance to those with Dyslexia? | Benjamin Griffiths Alfie Patrick Scott Stephenson Sam Colleary |
| The CSO Award | Central Statistics Office | Christian Brothers College Monkstown | Dublin | Cash, choices and costs: Do Irish households invest well? | Eoghan Conroy |
| CIÉ Group Award | CIÉ Group | Coláiste Mhuire Mullingar | Westmeath | WaterWatch: an AI-powered early flood warning system | James Heffernan Charlie Murtagh |
| The Coimisiún na Meán Award | Coimisiún na Meán | Ardgillan Community College | Dublin | The Mask of Masculinity | Willard Vintem Shane Cooper |
| ComReg Award | Commission for Communications Regulation (ComReg) | St Mary's Secondary School Mallow | Cork | Design and Development of a Solar-Powered SMART Buoy as a Sustainable Solution for River Health | Holly Fitzgerald Alison Kerrisk Maeve O'Reilly |
| The Cubic³ Connected Intelligence Award | Cubic³ | Mercy Secondary School Mounthawk | Kerry | GlioScope: Multi-task Deep Learning and Causal AI for Glioma & Glioblastoma Profiling | Aoibheann Daly |
| Department of Education and Youth ESD Award | Department of Education | St Mary's Secondary School Mallow | Cork | An Investigation into the Role of Noise in Irish Schools: Impacts on Behaviour, Learning, and Emotional Health in Mainstream and SEN Students | Rea Vinovrski |
| DAFM Award | Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine | St Mary's Secondary School Mallow | Cork | An Investigation into the Effects of various NFB and N- Fertilizer Amendments on the Growth of Barley Plants: A Route towards a more Sustainable Agriculture. | Alvy Fitzgerald Anna Duggan Leah O'Sullivan |
| DCU STEM Innovators Award | Dublin City University | Athlone Community College | Westmeath | Enduring Learning Dynamics: A Novel Approach to Analyse and Improve Forgetting and Alignment Drift in Machine Learning | Srinidhi Karthik |
| ECAS 112/SOS Best Project in Irish | ECAS/Coast Guard | Coláiste Naomh Eoin | Galway | AIRID: Ag úsáid córas nua, le cabhair intleachta saorga, chun canúintí díothaithe na Gaeilge a athchruthú. | Solomon Ó Gliasáin |
| The ERC—Tom Kellaghan Award | Educational Research Centre (ERC) | Rockwell College | Tipperary | Studytok | Sean Cahill Paddy Corcoran |
| The Eli Lilly Award | Eli Lilly | St Andrews College | Dublin | Identification of Belizatinib as a Potential Novel Treatment for Pancreatic Cancer | Niall Hennessy |
| The Engineers Ireland Steps Award | Engineers Ireland (The Institution of Engineers of Ireland) | Castleknock College | Dublin | How AI can combat disinformation and deepfakes online | Oisín O’Gorman Ashkan Samali Feargal Browne |
| The EPA Award | Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) | CBS The Green | Kerry | Sustainable Biostimulant Strategies to Reduce Nitrogen's Contribution to Greenhouse Gas Emissions | Chris Neerakkal |
| FSAI Award | Food Safety Authority of Ireland | St Marys College Arklow | Wicklow | The Effect of Artificial Sweeteners on Gut Bacteria: An In-Vitro Study | Niamh McGeachan |
| The GSI Award | Geological Survey Ireland | Mary Immaculate Secondary School | Clare | An initial analysis of 320 million-year-old micro coprolites from Doolin | Béibhinn O'Loughlin |
| The Housing Agency Award | The Housing Agency | Desmond College | Limerick | Effective Medical Solution for Bed Bugs (Cimex Lectularius) | Sophie Keane |
| The IOP Award | Institute of Physics | Stratford College | Dublin | A simulation of Axion Monodromy inflation to investigate whether it can describe our Universe | Ritvik Venkateshwar Hao Wen Liu |
| Intellectual Property Office of Ireland Award | Intellectual Property Office of Ireland | Castleblayney College | Monaghan | Shading the Future: Ultraviolet Bioprotective Solutions for Human and Environmental Health. | Hannah Quinn Caoimhe Quinn |
| Irish Science Teachers’ Association Special Award | Irish Science Teachers’ Association (ISTA) | Coláiste Muire Máthair | Galway | Breaking The Bias: Have science books evolved enough to represent female scientists fairly? | Liya Walsh Crystal Quinn |
| The Kerry Sustainable Nutrition Award | Kerry Group | Moate Community School | Westmeath | Chew Green: Unsticking The Problem | Rachel Coghlan |
| MBRYONICS Bringing Innovation to Light Award | MBRYONICS | St Joseph's Secondary School Rush | Dublin | UV index calculation: Integrating Cloud Classification and Machine Learning for Precision in UV Forecasting | Éabha McBride Layla Nolan Leah Mullen |
| The Medtronic Innovating to Extend Life Award | Medtronic | Castleknock College | Dublin | GlucoBit: A low-cost IoT enabled glucose visualisation and alert device | James Harcourt |
| Met Éireann Award | Met Éireann | Malahide Community School | Dublin | Taking “The Stick” for a walk: A year long study of Malahide’s microclimate and what it means for Ireland’s official weather station network. | Nicholas Connolly Evelyn Debish |
| SuperValu “Food for the Future” Award | Musgraves | Coláiste Bríde | Dublin | NutriTrack: Rethinking Healthy Eating | Tegan Timmons |
| The National Disability Authority Award | National Disability Authority | C.B.S. Thurles | Tipperary | Urban Inaccessibility: A Quantitative Analysis of the Impact of Physical Barriers on Wheelchair Users’ Quality of Life. | Luke Blackwell |
| National Water Forum Award | National Water Forum | Mary Immaculate Secondary School | Clare | TURCAST: Forecasting turlough depths through machine learning and data analysis | Oisín Jackson |
| The Ombudsman for Children’s Award | Ombudsman for Children’s Office | Terence Mac Swiney Community College | Cork | Bumblebee | Mikayla Ryan Reece Morey Alex McKee |
| The Oracle Academy Award | Oracle Academy | Kinsale Community School | Cork | Sherlock: An improved, universal AI model for the automatic evaluation of bias in news media | Afric Deasy |
| The Re-Turn Award | Re-Turn | Millstreet Community School | Cork | ReThread | Farhan Tijani |
| The Regeneron Award | Regeneron | Lanesboro Community College | Longford | CAPILL: Medicine Dispenser for People with Reduced Hand Mobility | Ronan Lyons |
| Repak Innovation Award in Packaging Design and Recycling | Repak | Scoil Chonglais | Wicklow | Biodegradable Fruit Stickers | Emma Harmon Aimee O'Reilly Keelynn Keogh |
| Road Safety Authority Award | RSA | Rosses Community School | Donegal | Testing Irish Seaweed as a Low-Cost, Eco-Friendly Absorbent for Road Oil Spills | Adam Krska Owen McGee Ryan Boyle |
| The RTE Science and Society Award | RTE | Presentation Secondary School Clonmel | Tipperary | Assessing and combating misconceptions & misinformation about Autism diagnoses | Cara Darmody |
| The Science for Development Award | Self Help Africa | The Kings Hospital | Dublin | Solutions to Combat Lead Pollution in Soil and Water in Kabwe, Zambia | Matthew Johnson Yung Hei Tsang |
| Smurfit Westrock Chemical, Physical & Mathematical Award Smurfit Westrock Chemical, Physical & Mathematical Educator of Excellence Award | Smurfit Westrock | St. Mary's C.B.S. | Laois | There's Plenty of Room To Break Through at the Bottom | Joshua Corbett |
| Speed Fibre Group “Connected Horizons” Award | Speed Fibre | Ursuline College | Sligo | Sheep Strength II: Using Sheep Wool to Reinforce Concrete | Aoife Fadian Jessica O'Connor |
| Tackle Your Feelings Award | Tackle Your Feelings | Abbey Christian Brothers School | Down | How Well Does the GAA support Health and Well-being in each County in Ireland | Robbie Albert Brian Garvey |
| Research Ireland Societal Challenge Award | Taighde Éireann—Research Ireland | St Josephs College | Tipperary | An investigation into a protection protocol for Native Irish Honey Bees against the new, invasive Vespa velutina using using sound waves | James Maher Daniel Ryan Begley |
| Teagasc Award | Teagasc | St Mary's Secondary School Mallow | Cork | An Investigation into Soil Organic Matter in North Cork Using UAV RGB Imagery: Supporting the “4 per 1000” Initiative & Climate Change Mitigation | Méabh Dorgan Katie Fitzgerald Muireann Murphy |
| eFlow STAR (Sustainable Transport Award Recognition) | TII/eFlow (Turas Mobility Services) | Marian College | Dublin | Mean-Field Game Theory for Adaptive Traffic Signal Control: A Hybrid AI-Mathematical Framework for Equilibrium-Based Optimization at Urban Intersections. | Arjun Gambhir |
Biological & Ecological Sciences Category Winners
| Award Title | School | County | Project Title | Student(s) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3rd Junior Individual | Rosses Community School | Donegal | Jellyfish Barriers for Bathing Areas | Tomas Downey |
| 2nd Junior Individual | Coláiste Phádraig CBS | Dublin | Do microplastics in freshwater sediments alter the nitrogen cycle? | Blake Carey |
| 1st Junior Individual | St. David's College | Dublin | Disease Diagnosis Model for Febrile illnesses | Pradyumna Suraj Rao |
| 3rd Junior Group | Moate Community School | Westmeath | Using Native Irish Plants to Reinvigorate Soils Following Prolonged Flooded at Lough Funshinagh | Rachel Pillion Emma Kelly Emily Galvin |
| 2nd Junior Group | St Bricin's College | Cavan | The Grass is Greener with Alpacas: Fertiliser Value, Application Methods, and Weed Seed Germination | Eoin Slattery James O Reilly |
| 1st Junior Group | St Mary's Secondary School Mallow | Cork | An Investigation into Soil Organic Matter in North Cork Using UAV RGB Imagery: Supporting the “4 per 1000” Initiative & Climate Change Mitigation | Méabh Dorgan Katie Fitzgerald Muireann Murphy |
| 3rd Intermediate Individual | St Vincent's Secondary School | Louth | An Investigation into the effect of Arm Strength and Core Strength on the ability to perform a handstand successfully. | Dearbhla Leavy |
| 2nd Intermediate Individual | CBS The Green | Kerry | Sustainable Biostimulant Strategies to Reduce Nitrogen's Contribution to Greenhouse Gas Emissions | Chris Neerakkal |
| 1st Intermediate Individual | St. Leo's College | Carlow | Like Mother Like Daughter: Pursuing beneficial traits of native Irish queen bees through controlled breeding to ensure species survival in changing climates. | Naomi Picovici |
| 3rd Intermediate Group | Árdscoil Uí Urmoltaigh | Cork | Is Lung Capacity the Key? - Assessing differences in physiological attributes between students on a school GAA team and those who are not. | Cathal Murphy Tom Kingston |
| 2nd Intermediate Group | Coláiste an Spioraid Naoimh | Cork | Don't Stop Bee-lievin' | Jonathan Varughese Cian Manning |
| 1st Intermediate Group | St Mary's Secondary School Mallow | Cork | An Investigation into the Effects of various NFB and N- Fertilizer Amendments on the Growth of Barley Plants: A Route towards a more Sustainable Agriculture. | Alvy Fitzgerald Anna Duggan Leah O'Sullivan |
| 3rd Senior Individual | Greystones Community College | Wicklow | ElecticEvolution- Using cold plasma for plasmid mediated DNA transfer | Richie Johnson |
| 2nd Senior Individual | Loreto Secondary School Letterkenny | Donegal | Eco Purge: Biodegradable Plastic with Enzyme-Driven Microplastic Degradation | Arya Satheesh |
| 1st Senior Individual | St Andrews College | Dublin | Identification of Belizatinib as a Potential Novel Treatment for Pancreatic Cancer | Niall Hennessy |
| 3rd Senior Group | Mercy Secondary School Mounthawk | Kerry | Empowering the Global South: Revolutionising Fast Fashion Run-Off Treatment using Solar-Powered Bioadsorption. | Oluwatomiwa Abigail Adetunji Jeri Maeve Samonte Jolin Weng |
| 2nd Senior Group | Kinsale Community School | Cork | Soleus - the forgotten knee muscle? Is its neglect contributing to an increase in incidence of Anterior Cruciate Ligament injury in Ireland? | Miah O' Callaghan Peter Leahy |
| 1st Senior Group | Castleblayney College | Monaghan | Shading the Future: Ultraviolet Bioprotective Solutions for Human and Environmental Health. | Hannah Quinn Caoimhe Quinn |
Health & Wellbeing Category Winners
| Award Title | School | County | Project Title | Student(s) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3rd Junior Individual | Greystones Community College | Wicklow | Sure Sit Mat: A mat designed to help people with dementia sit down safely with confidence. | Tyler Ferguson |
| 2nd Junior Individual | Desmond College | Limerick | Grip Geenie "Bringing comfort and confidence to users, one twist at a time." | Daniel Doherty |
| 1st Junior Individual | St Mary's Secondary School Mallow | Cork | An Investigation into the Role of Noise in Irish Schools: Impacts on Behaviour, Learning, and Emotional Health in Mainstream and SEN Students | Rea Vinovrski |
| 3rd Junior Group | Coláiste Mhuire Mullingar | Westmeath | EcoEase: Recycling Workwear into Fidget/Stress Relief Toys for Neurodivergent Minds | Thomas Francis Hyland James Hyland |
| 2nd Junior Group | Abbey Christian Brothers School | Down | How Well Does the GAA support Health and Well-being in each County in Ireland | Robbie Albert Brian Garvey |
| 1st Junior Group | Tullamore College | Offaly | The Infection Detector: How Cabbage Juice Tracks Infections using a natural pH Indicator. | Rachel Carroll Killian Dromey |
| 3rd Intermediate Individual | Desmond College | Limerick | AsthmaSense: A System for Recording and Predicting Asthma Attacks | Nell McMahon |
| 2nd Intermediate Individual | Presentation Secondary School Thurles | Tipperary | Game On or Game Over? Competition’s Impact On Health and Wellbeing | Grace O'Shaughnessy |
| 1st Intermediate Individual | Mount St Michael | Mayo | Secure Hands: Evolving Real-Time ISL Translation for Critical First Responder Communication (A Refined and Extended Study). | Dana Carney |
| 3rd Intermediate Group | Boherbue Comprehensive School | Cork | Silent Struggles: Farmers Mental Health And The Weight Of Change | Cathal O'Shea Fionn Murphy |
| 2nd Intermediate Group | St Josephs College | Tipperary | Mapping Ireland's Future "Care Gaps"-A Composite Risk Index for Access to Care in an Ageing Population. | Luke Ryan Daniel Groome Jack Groome |
| 1st Intermediate Group | Moate Community School | Westmeath | Ferma-Aid: Using Fermentation to Produce Nutritious, Easily Digestible and Sustainable Emergency Food Aid | Leah Winters Shona Kinahan Ella Hamm |
| 3rd Senior Individual | Coláiste Bríde | Dublin | NutriTrack: Rethinking Healthy Eating | Tegan Timmons |
| 2nd Senior Individual | Desmond College | Limerick | Effective Medical Solution for Bed Bugs (Cimex Lectularius) | Sophie Keane |
| 1st Senior Individual | C.B.S. Thurles | Tipperary | Urban Inaccessibility: A Quantitative Analysis of the Impact of Physical Barriers on Wheelchair Users’ Quality of Life. | Luke Blackwell |
| 3rd Senior Group | St Mary's Diocesan School | Louth | Investigating the effects of different frequencies when sleeping among teenagers aged 13-17 | Ruairí Ó Gráinne Fergus Nolan Conor Dolan |
| 1st Senior Group | Terence Mac Swiney Community College | Cork | Bumblebee | Mikayla Ryan Reece Morey Alex McKee |
| 1st Senior Group | Dominican College | Galway | From Vessel Support to Insulin Production: A Prototype Stent for Diabetes Complications | Deepta Suresh Janefrances Muoneke |
Social & Behavioural Sciences Category Winners
| Award Title | School | County | Project Title | Student(s) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2nd Junior Individual | St. Joseph's C.B.S. | Louth | Do Teenagers Trust AI More Than Their Parents or Teachers | Jayden McGahon |
| 1st Junior Individual | Moate Community School | Westmeath | Elo Evolution: Redefining Chess Ratings | Nemhain Doolin |
| 3rd Junior Group | Kinsale Community School | Cork | Numbers don’t discriminate - the curriculum does! How can we solve the equation and create a fair maths education for every student? | Cushla O'Reilly Elise O'Sullivan Caoimhe Ní Charragáin |
| 2nd Junior Group | Kinsale Community School | Cork | School Phone Pouches: Do They Really Limit Students' Screen Time? A Statistical Analysis | Ella Holly Grace Holland |
| 1st Junior Group | Heywood Community School | Laois | Exploring taste familiarity and visual recognition accuracy of fruits and vegetables in children aged 8-12 years | Síona Lalor Aoibhinn Malone |
| 3rd Intermediate Individual | Mercy Secondary School Mounthawk | Kerry | Developing A Personalised Diagnostic Model: For The Detection of Bullying Behaviors in Secondary Schools | Bienheureuse Tumba Kolapanu |
| 1st Intermediate Individual | The Institute of Education | Dublin | Policy vs Practice: Projected Impact of Ireland’s Vape Tax and Flavor Ban | Katie Zheng |
| 1st Intermediate Individual | St Kilian's Deutsche Schule | Dublin | Alleviating Pronunciation Difficulties for English Learners | Jacob Roantree |
| 3rd Intermediate Group | Coláiste Mhuire Mullingar | Westmeath | Burnout and beyond: The impact of stress, job security and living costs on teacher retention | Zack O'Brien Matthew Heslin Rhys Brady |
| 2nd Intermediate Group | Ardgillan Community College | Dublin | The Mask of Masculinity | Willard Vintem Shane Cooper |
| 1st Intermediate Group | Portumna Community School | Galway | Does the Autism Label Change How We See Our Classmates? | Eve Kenny Aisling Treacy Allie Callanan |
| 3rd Senior Individual | Cashel Community School | Tipperary | Assessing how well Junior Cycle prepares students for Leaving Cycle | Oisin Howley |
| 2nd Senior Individual | Bruce College | Cork | AccessiRead: Making Exams Accessible, for Everyone | Philippa Mcintosh |
| 1st Senior Individual | Coláiste Mhuire Mullingar | Westmeath | Investigating exposure, intergroup threat and rejection in adolescent male attitude development | Seán Murphy |
| 3rd Senior Group | Our Lady's Bower | Westmeath | Dyslexia in Ireland Under the Microscope | Sive OBrien Madison Moore Isobel Tierney |
| 2nd Senior Group | St Mary's Secondary School Macroom | Cork | Likes vs Rights: Should Family Vloggers Be Subject to Child Labour Laws? | Chloe Lehane Amy White |
| 1st Senior Group | St Mary's Secondary School Mallow | Cork | Pixelated Realities: When Social Media Becomes the Escape | Aoife Cregg Niamh O'Sullivan Clodagh Parkin |
Chemical, Physical & Mathematical Sciences Category Winners
| Award Title | School | County | Project Title | Student(s) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3rd Junior Individual | Loreto Secondary School Balbriggan | Dublin | Can Plants Outshine Antibiotics? | Farah Khaliq Rehman |
| 2nd Junior Individual | St Mary's Secondary School Mallow | Cork | An Investigation into the Spread of Forever Chemicals in Local Surface and Groundwater Sources of North Cork Using Low-Cost School Based Detection Methods | Jade Hosford |
| 1st Junior Individual | Pobalscoil na Tríonóide | Cork | The gloves are off – but what’s left on? Detection of chemical allergens in Goalkeeper Gloves and potential barriers for skin protection | Robert King |
| 3rd Junior Group | Christian Brothers, Synge St. | Dublin | Some Theorems and Conjectures Inspired by Gauss's 'Eureka Theorem' | Adian Islam Mahin Yataro Tsubo |
| 2nd Junior Group | Moate Community School | Westmeath | Freeze-Free Drinkers: Engineering Freeze-Resistant Livestock Drinking Systems | Denis Murray Tom O'Connell Conor Fox |
| 1st Junior Group | Christian Brothers College Cork | Cork | Using an automatic irrigation system to improve crop production | Ben Dwyer Daragh O'Mullane Oisín Sheehan |
| 3rd Intermediate Individual | Breifne College | Cavan | pHaulty Foundations: The Effect of Freshwater Acidification on Building Materials | Lewis Mohan |
| 2nd Intermediate Individual | Christian Brothers, Synge St. | Dublin | Representations of Irrational Numbers | Muhammad Ali Butt |
| 1st Intermediate Individual | Athlone Community College | Westmeath | Enduring Learning Dynamics: A Novel Approach to Analyse and Improve Forgetting and Alignment Drift in Machine Learning | Srinidhi Karthik |
| 3rd Intermediate Group | Balbriggan Community College | Dublin | Comparative study on Roman cement and Portland cement strength in a marine environment | Erin Nugent Katelyn Scott William Nugent |
| 2nd Intermediate Group | St Josephs College | Tipperary | An investigative study into how landing techniques in different sports affect strains on the ACL in athletes. | Lucy Rabbitte Aoibhe Hassett Anna Meehan |
| 1st Intermediate Group | Coláiste an Spioraid Naoimh | Cork | Investigating the Energy Absorption of Biological and Non-Biological Lattice Structures | Mícheál Ó Cróinín Macmathúna Conall Conroy |
| 3rd Senior Individual | Christian Brothers, Synge St. | Dublin | Generalisations of the Steiner-Lehmus Theorem | Zihan Chen |
| 2nd Senior Individual | St Andrews College | Dublin | ChronoSim: A computational model and tool to simulate quantum time crystals and identify parameter regions exhibiting discrete time-translation symmetry breaking | Mingyang Wang |
| 1st Senior Individual | Greystones Community College | Wicklow | AstroRim: Reconstruction of source objects in Gravitational Lenses via Physics Informed Machine Learning | Jack Walsh |
| 3rd Senior Group | Scoil Chonglais | Wicklow | Biodegradable Fruit Stickers | Emma Harmon Aimee O'Reilly Keelynn Keogh |
| 2nd Senior Group | Colaiste Muire Crosshaven | Cork | If you care breathe air: An investigation into the chemicals in vapes and cigarettes | Saoirse O Connor Buckley Holly Forde |
| 1st Senior Group | The Kings Hospital | Dublin | Solutions to Combat Lead Pollution in Soil and Water in Kabwe, Zambia | Matthew Johnson Yung Hei Tsang |
Technology Category Winners
| Award Title | School | County | Project Title | Student(s) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3rd Junior Individual | St. Michael's College | Kerry | Lights In My Eyes: A novel glare minimising, shrouded bike light suitable for Irish road conditions | Brian Enright |
| 2nd Junior Individual | Coláiste Muire Máthair | Galway | NeuroSync: AI Powered Support for Cognitive and Neurological Care | Muhammad Ashir Anwar |
| 1st Junior Individual | Colaiste Chiarain | Limerick | Chirp - A low cost approach to bat monitoring using AI audio analysis | Tomas O'Sullivan |
| 3rd Junior Group | Presentation College Headford | Galway | Poor women’s telescope in this economy! | Ailbhe Hartnett Sophie McKenna |
| 2nd Junior Group | Coláiste Mhuire Mullingar | Westmeath | Privacy vs Protection: Know Your Net | Coby Masterson Daniel Adewale |
| 1st Junior Group | St Mary's Secondary School Mallow | Cork | Design and Development of a Solar-Powered SMART Buoy as a Sustainable Solution for River Health | Holly Fitzgerald Alison Kerrisk Maeve O'Reilly |
| 3rd Intermediate Individual | Castleknock College | Dublin | GlucoBit: A low-cost IoT enabled glucose visualisation and alert device | James Harcourt |
| 2nd Intermediate Individual | CBS The Green | Kerry | AI-Based Defence System Against Asian Hornet Predation on Honeybee Colonies | Alex O'Connor |
| 1st Intermediate Individual | Celbridge Community School | Kildare | Developing a Compression Pipeline for deploying Neural Networks in Wearable Sleep Apnoea Detection. | Addison Carey |
| 3rd Intermediate Group | St Patrick's Classical School | Meath | Swift Block | Cillian Harten Sean Lahart Lucas McNamara |
| 2nd Intermediate Group | De La Salle College Dundalk | Louth | TrustLens - an AI-powered browser plugin for detecting bias | Brian McCabe Will Stewart |
| 1st Intermediate Group | Castleknock College | Dublin | How AI can combat disinformation and deepfakes online | Oisín O’Gorman Ashkan Samali Feargal Browne |
| 3rd Senior Individual | Kinsale Community School | Cork | Sherlock: An improved, universal AI model for the automatic evaluation of bias in news media | Afric Deasy |
| 2nd Senior Individual | Loreto College The Green | Dublin | A Multiscale Hopfield-Based Model Linking Molecular Pathology to Network Instability and Cognitive Decline in Alzheimer’s Disease | Tara Naughton |
| 1st Senior Individual | Coláiste Naomh Eoin | Galway | AIRID: Ag úsáid córas nua, le cabhair intleachta saorga, chun canúintí díothaithe na Gaeilge a athchruthú. | Solomon Ó Gliasáin |
| 3rd Senior Group | The Institute of Education | Dublin | Tact AI: Enhancing Adaptive Learning in AI through Tactile Feedback in Dynamic Environments | Conor O'Neill Alexander Vysotski |
| 2nd Senior Group | Colaiste Chiarain | Limerick | PowerPredict: Predicting Outages up to 10 days in advance | Miles Bueno Sarah Hurley |
| 1st Senior Group | Rockwell College | Tipperary | Studytok | Sean Cahill Paddy Corcoran |
Display Awards
| Award Title | School | County | Project Title | Student(s) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Display Award | Ursuline College | Sligo | The Coop-erative Mix: Adding chicken feathers and spent diatomaceous earth to plaster | Greta Gabryszak Fatima Mohamed Ahmed Suraiya Syeda Islam |
| Display Award | Santa Sabina Dominican College | Dublin | Who Wrote That? Can people tell the difference between music composed by AI and by humans? | Liliana Chrzan Monika Cosgrave Christina Bijoy |
| Display Award | Bunclody Vocational College | Wexford | The Firehose of Falsehood: Combating Repetition-Based Misinformation and Its Impact on Immigration Attitudes | Sam Bolger Thomas Larkin Aaron Sharlott |
| Display Award | C.B.S. Roscommon | Roscommon | An Investigation into the Design of a Novel and Sustainable Insulation Material for Irish Dwellingsay | Cain Fallon Tomas Coyle Euan Hanley |
| Display Award | Coláiste Naomh Eoin | Galway | Éadaí Thraidisiúnta Árann-Leide don Inbhuanaitheacht? | Ailbhe Deblacam Michelle Faherty Laylabelle Ní Chléirigh |
| Display Award | Coláiste Muire Máthair | Galway | A Clock Ticking on Health: Measuring Antioxidant Levels in Food Sources Using the Iodine Clock Exeperiment | Julia Matysik Anastasija Tatarnikova |
| Display Award | Dominican College Drumcondra | Dublin | Recipes For All: Accessible recipes for people with intellectual disabilities | Anna Jensen Hannah O'Neill-Scott |
| Display Award | Christ King Girls' Secondary School | Cork | HeartSupport | Lena Ogonowska Kristin Cahill |
| Display Award | Tullamore College | Offaly | CPR4ALL: A simple and affordable CPR manikin to help you save lives. | Diarmuid Eager Frankie Sheehan |
| Display Award | Mount Anville Secondary School | Dublin | Breaking records or just dress codes? An investigation into how the switch from skorts to shorts affectes girl’s confidence on the pitch. | Alice Brosnan Isla Conlon |
| Display Award | Loreto College The Green | Dublin | GlycoCycle: The Combination of Glucose Monitoring and Period Tracking | Tegan O‘Neill Laura Kelleher |
| Display Award | Our Lady's Bower | Westmeath | Coral Reef Recovery: An investigation using modern technology to prevent coral reef bleaching. | Bláthín Moran Aideen Derwin |
| Display Award | Mount Temple Comprehensive School | Dublin | Imscrúdú Turgnamhach ar Athruithe Acústacha i Veidhlíní de bharr seinnte agus creathaidh | Danu Ní Bhaoighill Torin Ó Baoighill |
| Display Award | St Joseph's Secondary School Rush | Dublin | BINBOTS | Robbie Rebueno James Paxton |
| Display Award | Virginia College | Cavan | Vacuum Silage Pit | Seán Duffy |
| Display Award | Luttrellstown Community College | Dublin | Less Fart, More Smart: How A Happy Meal For Cows Cuts Methane. | Aimee Maju |
| Display Award | Ennistymon Community School | Clare The Chemical and Physical Decompostion of Cross-Linked PVA Polymers | The Chemical and Physical Decompostion of Cross-Linked PVA Polymers | Ciallann Vaughan |
| Display Award | Meanscoil Nua an Leith Triuigh | Kerry | Mapping the Invisible: Using Artificial Intelligence to Profile Dark Matter Halos from Galaxy Rotation Curves | Jarlath Wruck |
| Display Award | Coláiste Fionnchua | Cork | An investigation of the possible existence of a secondary atmosphere on 55 Cancri e using transmission and thermal emission spectroscopy | Habiba Dar |
| Display Award | Presentation Secondary School Thurles | Tipperary | Back In The Saddle: Resilience and recovery after horse-related injuries | Bella Ryan |
| Display Award | St Mary's Secondary School Macroom | Cork | Reserved for a Reason: Exploring Public Perception and Misuse of Disabled Persons’ Parking Spaces and Permits, with Proposed Solutions | Áine O'Leary |
| Display Award | St Columba's Comprehensive School | Donegal | SeaSense: A seaweed-based biosensor for early sepsis detection via salivary bio markers | Klara Piechocka |
| Display Award | Beaufort College | Meath | The role of temperature-dependent enzymes in weightlifting performance | Tymoteusz Witek |
Highly Commended
| Award Title | School | County | Project Title | Student(s) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Highly Commended | St David's Holy Faith Secondary | Wicklow | Wireless Charging | Michael Goodwin Alex Tracey Cathal Quinn |
| Highly Commended | Ramsgrange Community School | Wexford | Running Road Run-off Off The Roads | Jonah Flynn Aidan King Noah Somers Neary |
| Highly Commended | Moate Community School | Westmeath | More than Makeup: The Female Athlete's Struggle in the Eye of the Media | Grace Dolan Ciara Lappin Ellen Madden |
| Highly Commended | St Mary's Secondary School Macroom | Cork | Counting the Cost of Clean Water: An investigation into the social, environmental and economical cost of frequent boil water notices in the town of Macroom | Isabelle Roberts Siún O' Connor Réaltín Walsh |
| Highly Commended | Tallaght Community School | Dublin | Stairway to Strategy: Do Older Students Spot the Nash Equilibrium Faster? | Saket Ram Pinnelli Suraj Kandel Zarif Khondaker |
| Highly Commended | Mount St Michael | Mayo | DiAssist: A Mobile Application Smart Diabetes Management system with personalised Diet Insights & Emergency Alerts | Edel Walsh Orlaith Colleran Eirinn-Jade Culleton |
| Highly Commended | Colaiste Treasa | Cork | Uniform Confidence: Do School Uniforms Reduce Appearance-Related Pressure In Irish Secondary School? | Sarah Piggott Holly McCarthy Amber Moynihan |
| Highly Commended | Gaelcholáiste Reachrann | Dublin | Can combining AI, digital wellness tools and peer support in the form of a web app help young people open up about their mental health? | Cillian Gowen Lorcan Diamond Ruth hodkinson |
| Highly Commended | Presentation Secondary School Listowel | Kerry | TempoTeacher | Amy O Mahony Emily Ashley Yvonne Barrett |
| Highly Commended | St Mary's Holy Faith Glasnevin Secondary School | Dublin | The Bias Behind the Bot: How AI Sees Gender — An Investigation of Gender Bias and Stereotyping in AI-Generated Text, Images, Voice, and Language | Ava Leone Ava Lynne Arthurs Martyna Wneczak |
| Highly Commended | St Mary's Academy CBS | Carlow | AQD 17 | Irshad Hanafi Emil Jaskula Siddharth Sharma |
| Highly Commended | St Joseph's Secondary School Rush | Dublin | Comparing Local Macroalgae and Cultured Microalgae for Eco-Friendly Water Purification: A Sensor-Based Study Using PASCO Technology | Ciara Gleeson Annet Mariya Binoy Maura Anyi |
| Highly Commended | Sandford Park School | Dublin | Artificial Intelligence: Help or Hindrance to those with Dyslexia? | Benjamin Griffiths Alfie Patrick Scott Stephenson Sam Colleary |
| Highly Commended | Coláiste Phádraig CBS | Dublin | Biomechanics of Hand Grip Strength vs Hand Size | Mohammad Mudasir Zamir Modasir Ahadmanish Wan Mohd Nabilfikri |
| Highly Commended | Elphin Community College | Roscommon | To investigate the insulating properties of various sustainable materials compared to synthetic materials | Seán Gormley Shannon Butler |
| Highly Commended | St Andrews College | Dublin | Dynamic Future Proofing of Open-Source Software using Machine Learning Powered Techniques (SecureOSS) | Max Grogan Finn O Donaill |
| Highly Commended | Stratford College | Dublin | FluxChess: A Real-Time Dynamic Chess Tutor That Teaches Through Personalised Feedback | Callum Farrell Sanket Sridhar |
| Highly Commended | Gonzaga College | Dublin | To Investigate the Properties of Wool in Pressure Sore Prevention and Wound Dressing | Brian O Connell Thomas Pegum |
| Highly Commended | St Mary's Secondary School Macroom | Cork | Scroll, Swipe, Forget? The effects of screentime on adolescent memory | Jennifer Duggan Aoibhinn Kelleher |
| Highly Commended | Coláiste Muire Máthair | Galway | Breaking The Bias: Have science books evolved enough to represent female scientists fairly? | Liya Walsh Crystal Quinn |
| Highly Commended | Castletroy College | Limerick | ‘Shine Bright, Clean Right’ - The impact of dirt/debris on solar panel efficiency | Mikas Higgins Harry Buckley |
| Highly Commended | Coláiste Mhuire Mullingar | Westmeath | WaterWatch: an AI-powered early flood warning system | James Heffernan Charlie Murtagh |
| Highly Commended | Coláiste Mhuire Mullingar | Westmeath | DiaCare+: Taking Diabetes management to the next level | Donnacha Doyle Dylan Hanly |
| Highly Commended | Kilkenny College | Kilkenny | Affordable Prosthetic Arm Mk2 | Alan Meinderink Danny Beirne-Bowden |
| Highly Commended | Jesus & Mary Secondary School | Galway | Eye-resh: A Wearable Device for a Persistent Healthy Vision. | Kowshikaa Raj Charvia Ranjithkumar |
| Highly Commended | Patrician Secondary School | Kildare | Smart Biochar: a Reusable Filter for Fertilizer-Polluted Water | Liam Somers Sam Whelan |
| Highly Commended | Presentation Secondary School Listowel | Kerry | Melting the problem; the effects and alternatives of NaCl on frosty Irish roads. | Sinéad Barry Kate O' Carroll |
| Highly Commended | Coláiste Choilm | Cork | Implicit Bias in the Classroom: Investigating Students Perceptions of Male vs. Female Teachers | Aoibhinn Noonan |
| Highly Commended | St Andrews College | Dublin | M-AI-RIA: AI-Powered Malaria Risk Prediction | Joyce Han Ryan Brew |
| Highly Commended | Mercy College | Sligo | Tiny Algae, Big Impact: Using Microalgae and Enzymes to Purify Azo Dye-Contaminated Water. | Małgorzata Wrotniak Órla Tancred |
| Highly Commended | Castletroy College | Limerick | Sea to Source: Can we protect, restore and sustain our upland river ecosystems? | Danann Glynn Ewan Coulter |
| Highly Commended | Scoil Mhuire gan Smal | Cork | Psychological effect of the water issue on the people of North Cork. | Leah Buckley Carley o Callaghan |
| Highly Commended | St Josephs College | Tipperary | An investigation into a protection protocol for Native Irish Honey Bees against the new, invasive Vespa velutina using using sound waves | James Maher Daniel Ryan Begley |
| Highly Commended | Cashel Community School | Tipperary | An investigation into how one small policy change with P.E. uniforms can affect a whole community | Rachel Stockil Maeve Fitzpatrick |
| Highly Commended | Cookstown High School | Tyrone | TrailTalk: Your World, Your Stories | Luke Johnston Daniel Brownlee |
| Highly Commended | Kinsale Community School | Cork | Emergency Assistive Technology for Deaf and Hard of Hearing | Rebecca Whelan |
| Highly Commended | Colaiste Chiarain | Limerick | Public awareness and reaction to Presumed consent for organ donation in Ireland | John Cian Paul Shanahan |
| Highly Commended | Gaelcholáiste Chiarraí | Kerry | Taobh Thiar den Chluiche: Tuiscint, Acmhainní agus Dúshláin i bPeil Gael na mBan a staidéar | Evelyn Ahern |
| Highly Commended | Adamstown Community College | Dublin | Sealing the Future, Polymer based adhesives for safer internal wound healing | Amelia Lupascu |
| Highly Commended | Coláiste an Spioraid Naoimh | Cork | Critical Masses of Critical Thinkers | Ciaran Lear |
| Highly Commended | Adamstown Community College | Dublin | Symbiome: Real-Time Physiological Monitoring for Early Health Detection | Swasti Sahoo |
| Highly Commended | Christian Brothers, Synge St. | Dublin | An Unusual Method for Solving Diophantine Equations Using Matrices | Sagnik Das |
| Highly Commended | Mary Immaculate Secondary School | Clare | An initial analysis of 320 million-year-old micro coprolites from Doolin | Béibhinn O'Loughlin |
| Highly Commended | St Mary's Secondary School Mallow | Cork | The Metallicity-Driven Dynamics of Hot Jupiter Formation and Migration: Consequences for Neighbouring Planetary Habitability | Katie Mae O Neill |
| Highly Commended | Christian Brothers, Synge St. | Dublin | Two Recurring Themes in Ramanujan's Notebooks | Sahibjit Singh |
| Highly Commended | Marian College | Dublin | Mean-Field Game Theory for Adaptive Traffic Signal Control: A Hybrid AI-Mathematical Framework for Equilibrium-Based Optimization at Urban Intersections. | Arjun Gambhir |
| Highly Commended | Presentation Secondary School Clonmel | Tipperary | Assessing and combating misconceptions & misinformation about Autism diagnoses | Cara Darmody |
| Highly Commended | Christ King Girls' Secondary School | Cork | And the 2026 Stripe YSTE Winner Is.. Leveraging an AI-based Project Success Predictor to Forecast Winners from Social and Behavioral Variables | Nina Massalve |
| Highly Commended | Coláiste Nano Nagle | Limerick | MyWorld: Speak, Connect, Belong | Hafsa Raiz |
| Highly Commended | St Andrews College | Dublin | Solar-Powered Low-Cost Robot River Skimmer for Oil-Based Pollution Removal | Elijah Preston |
| Highly Commended | Gonzaga College | Dublin | AI-Powered Network Security & Resilience Tool: Automated Path Analysis with Dynamic Routing Protection | Yi Ming Heng |
| Highly Commended | Mercy Secondary School Mounthawk | Kerry | A New Method of Identifying Braess’ Paradox | Torran Millar |
| Highly Commended | Coláiste Ghlór na Mara | Dublin | Prometheus: A distributed record of time-stamped and provably authentic photographic images | Conall O’Reilly |
| Highly Commended | Lanesboro Community College | Longford | CAPILL: Medicine Dispenser for People with Reduced Hand Mobility | Ronan Lyons |
| Highly Commended | St. Gerard's School | Wicklow | RePortfolio: An AI-Driven Financial Portfolio Reporter | Luke Redmond |
| Highly Commended | Sutton Park School | Dublin | Lily Pads to Lifesavers - The Healing Power of Nuphar Lutea | Nadia Salamat |
| Highly Commended | St Marys College Arklow | Wicklow | We 'Mosst' Remove Heavy Metals from Water. A Biological Solution to Heavy Metal Pollution | Alice Giles |
| Highly Commended | Presentation Secondary School Thurles | Tipperary | Turning the tide on plastic: A study of Laminaria digitata Bioplastic as a sustainable alternative to petroleum Plastics | Emma Flannery |
| Highly Commended | Moate Community School | Westmeath | Chew Green: Unsticking The Problem | Rachel Coghlan |
| Highly Commended | St Marys College Arklow | Wicklow | The Effect of Artificial Sweeteners on Gut Bacteria: An In-Vitro Study | Niamh McGeachan |
| Highly Commended | Desmond College | Limerick | Dim The Light: A Multigenerational Investigation into the Effects of Light Pollution on Artemia | Minenhle Ndlovu |
