SOME aspects of the Young Scientist competition have faded but not many because it changed my life forever. !I absolutely loved it. I went there thanks to a teacher at my school who was always encouraging people to attend. I had all the fears that someone might have about what this thing was going to be like, whether I was going to make any projects that would be worthwhile for it.

WE don’t have oil wells or gold mines in Ireland but we have amazing young brain power, President Mary McAleese declared when she opened the 47th BT Young Scientist and Technology Exhibition in the RDS in Dublin yesterday.