Farming and ice buckets to showcase north galways top scientific talent

FROM farming practices to the ice bucket challenge, North Galway students are hoping to make their mark on this year’s BT Young Scientists exhibition that gets under way in Dublin next week.
A host of schools throughout the city and county have reached the finals of the competition, with a group of students who represented their school in last year’s event invited back to a panel discussion alongside European Ryder Cup winning captain Paul McGinley.
Coláiste Mhuire Ballygar will be represented by fifth year student Cian O’Leary whose project on soil compaction is aiming to impress the judges in the biological and ecological division.
The keen farmer is combining his love of agricultural science and practical experience on a neighbour’s farm to determine the causes of soil compaction and the implications it has on crop yield.