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Award 2023 Award 2023

Recently, I interviewed Emily Johnson about her wind turbine efficiency experiment. Emily started off by choosing 6 different blades for her homemade wind turbine to see which type would work the best. Once she had put her models to the test, she then calculated the overall results with one blade standing out in particular. Emily found that the smoothest and most aerodynamic blade created the most power.

This experiment is on an interesting and on topic as that is what everyone is talking about (sustainability). So, an excellent job to Emily and her achievements with this experiment. Thanks, The NCP

Therese Gunning, Legal Director BT Ireland presents the BT Young Scientist & Technology Exhibition 2023 Chemical, Physical and Mathematical Category 1st Place Junior Individual Award to Emily Johnson, Newbridge College Co Kildare for the project ‘Optimising wind turbine efficiency’

We would also like to say a huge congratulations to Heidi Beary (1Y) who is being put forward to the national finals by the Kildare LEO for her entry into the Junior competition “My Entrepreneurial Journey”. A fantastic achievement, well done Heidi.

Congratulations to Etienne Thompson who came second in the Feis Ceoil (Junior French Horn) classical music competition in the RDS.

Athletics triumph

Congratulations to the Newbridge College swim teams who competed in the All-Ireland finals on 26th/03/2023. Callie Walsh, Lily Crawford, Caroline Redmond and Alison Mahon won bronze medals in the 4 X 100m medley. Congratulations also to the boy’s swim team who were finalists in the relay – Tom Spollen, Matthew Spollen, Jamie Hardigan and Ryan Crawford. Well done to all!

Congratulations to the Minor Girls Team who were placed 5th in the All-Ireland Cross-Country Championships on Saturday in WaterfordRachael Keaney (6th), Isabella Walsh, Hannah Cash, Laoise McDaid and Anabelle Fadden. Well done to all involved!

Congratulations to Tara Mulhall (5th yr) who progressed to the final of the Irish national Mace debating championships on the 25th/03/2023.Tara debated four times on Saturday and ranked 9th in Ireland overall!

Four 2nd year students are working on a project for the Young Environmentalist Awards 2023. Their project has been selected for the regional semi-finals which are taking place today. As part of their project they are introducing compost bins into our school. As a start they would encourage you to use the brown compost bin provided in the ref. We wish Isabel Connolly, Freya Nolan, Clodagh Lannon & Aoife Mackay the very best of luck!

Congratulations (again) to Tara Mulhall in fifth year on winning the Best Individual award at the Business Bootcamp held in UCD this month. This bootcamp aims to help students commercialise a scientific project. 30 winners attended from this year’s Young Scientist and Tara took home the Best Individual award. Well done on this achievement.

Well done very talented musicians, soloists and choir on their wonderful performances during our annual ‘Celebration of Music’ night. It was so good to have the tradition return after the Covid enforced hiatus.

Mrs.

Congratulations to our TY mini-companies that represented Newbridge College in the county final of the Student Enterprise Awards in Killashee on Thursday. ‘Suds 4 Buds’ (Lena Quinn, Orla Courtney, Lucy Harkin, Niamh Molloy & Ruby Hennessy) won the prize for Best Stand and Rachel Davitt came 2nd in the county with her company ‘Rachies Bakes’. Congratulations to the students and their teachers on all their great work.

Ger Doyle