Laois winners in the BT Young Scientist Exhibition 2021 includes a second time success
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Evan Hogg from Heywood Community School winning at the 2020 BT Young Scientist Exhibition - he won again in in 2021. );
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Laois students were recognised and commended at the BT Young Scientist & Technology Exhibition 2021 Awards Ceremony and for one of them, it marked the second year in a row he has savoured success.
A total of three awards were presented to Laois students for their impressive projects entered in this year’s virtual exhibition.
In the Social and Behavioural Senior Individual section second place went to Heywood Community School student Evan Hogg. His project was called: The regulations at play behind your physical activity: A statistical analysis into how we can use SDT to better motivate the nation to participate in physical activity . Evan also own in 2020.
In August, there was cause for celebration following the miraculous rescue of two cousins who spent 15 hours stranded at sea. Ellen Glynn and Sara Feeney got into difficulty after going paddleboarding at Furbo Beach in Co Galway. A major search and rescue operation was launched after the young women failed to return to shore and many feared the worst.
1. Galway ‘miracle’ rescue
The next morning, however, the pair were discovered by local fisherman Patrick Oliver and his son Morgan. Oliver used his fishing experience to predict where the young women might have drifted and located them some 17 miles from where they had last been seen.