OVERALL WINNERS
Andrew Doran, Roisin Connolly, Kate Dowling, Abbie Byrne - Scoil Naomh Iosaf, Baltinglass, Co. Wicklow
Overall winner.pdf (0.22 MB, Adobe PDF) Title - Cinema Seat Availability
A lighting system for cinemas that makes it easier to find a seat in the dark. When the seat is not in use and is upright there would be a light on this part of the chair, which will be green to indicate that it is free. If the seat is then sat in and the occupant temporarily leaves, the seat will show red for a period of ten minutes after this time is will change to green to indicate that the seat is available.
1st – 3rd CATEGORY
1st - Eimhin O’Neill – St Anne’s NS, Straffan, Co. Kildare
1st.pdf (0.14 MB, Adobe PDF) Title – The phone ‘Smoke Alarm’
A smoke alarm built into a mobile phone as most people use mobile phones as alarm clocks. Most house fires happen at night when people are asleep.
2nd - Andrew Shields – Primrose Hill NS, Celbridge, Co. Kildare
2nd.pdf (0.23 MB, Adobe PDF) Title - Musical Toothbrush
A toothbrush that will play our chosen music for a three-minute duration, which is the recommended time that a child should brush for. The music on this brush can be uploaded through your pc.
3rd - Francesca Scott – Bray School Project, Bray, Co. Wicklow
3rd.pdf (0.15 MB, Adobe PDF) Title – The Sink Stopper
A computer that is built into a sink or bath that allows you to regulate the taps so that only a set amount of water will fill the sink/bath.
4th – 6th CATEGORY
1st - Aaron Farrell, Fermoyle NS, Lanesboro, Co. Longford
1st.pdf (0.16 MB, Adobe PDF) Title – Disabled Parking Sensor
A chip that would be incorporated into disabled parking stickers and would be picked up by a sensor in disabled parking signs in car parks. If a car does not have a sticker with a sensor when parking in an allotted space an alarm will sound to warn the person they are parking in a disabled space.
2nd - Jennifer Murray, Scoil Iosagain, Blarney, Co. Cork
2nd.pdf (0.17 MB, Adobe PDF) Title – Car Park Pick-up
A system for multi-storey car parks where the car registration is scanned upon entry and as you go up the levels of the car park. When you return there will be system available that you can key your registration in and it will tell you on what level you have parked.
3rd - James Gavigan, Fermoyle NS, Lanesboro, Co. Longford
3rd.pdf (0.12 MB, Adobe PDF) Title – The Slurry Sensor
When agitating slurry the gas that is released can be poisonous and kill. The invention is a gas sensor that can be placed on the agitator or on any other places that the gas can escape from.