Shauna O Keeffe, a third-year student from Castleisland Community College, is hoping to win her second national title in as many years in the National Sophia Physics Competition.
Shauna was part of a group that won the Junior category last year, and this year she undertook her own research and entered the competition again.
She has now been short-listed as a finalist. Five different transition-year groups have also been short-listed as finalists in their categories.
Shauna s project is a study about electrostatics in bees and how they interact with flowers in nature.
Bees are among the earth s hardest-working creatures and are one of the most important plant pollinators.