The SciFest programme aims to encourage a love of science, technology and maths through active, collaborative, inquiry-based learning and to provide a forum for students at local, regional and national level to present and display their scientific investigations. All 1st year students participated in a Scifest event at the school on 3rd March. There was […]
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BT Young Scientist
On Thursday 12th January eighty one 1st year students and a small representative group of TY students travelled with Ms Suzanne McMahon, Ms Jackie Hayes, Ms Laura Walshe and Ms Ann Ryan to visit the exhibition in the RDS and support Robert Guest, TY student under the guidance of Science teacher Ms Mary Brady, in […]
Borrisokane Community College will be respresented at the 2017 BT Young Scientist.
Robert Guest ,Transition year student , has successfully reached the exhibition stage of the BT Young Scientist in the RDS this Wednesday to Saturday inclusive. Robert has been diligently working on his project titled Development of an Algorithm for Increasing the Efficiency of Computer Component Selection for the past few months. We wish Robert the very best of luck at the […]
Birr Castle Trip & Presentation 1st year Awards
All 1st year students travelled to Birr Castle and Science museum last November. They partook in workshops that day in Science. They enjoyed travelling through the grounds and gardens on a horse and cart. They also experienced a guided history tour of the castle. As part of research and engaging the key skills of Communicating, […]
Science Week Lecture
On Wednesday, 9th of November, Transition year students at Borrisokane Community College received a talk on Biomedical Science and Engineering from Liam Brennan, a spokesperson from GMIT (Galway Mayo Institute of Technology). Beginning the talk, he explained to everyone what exactly biomedical engineering is. It is a new branch of engineering which involves the creation […]
