Re your Where Are They Now piece on the Young Scientists — I just wish to note that Jean Byrne, 1992 Young Scientist, sadly passed away in 2007 from the complications of cystic fibrosis. She was just 31 years old and had been heavily involved in CF campaigning and education.

In the 50th year of the Young Scientist Exhibition, the political and media establishment have little appreciation of what science and technology have achieved. Humanity has been transformed: we live longer, healthier, relatively pain-free lives, with comforts, education, communication, entertainment, travel and countless choices that have enhanced us beyond anything contemplated 50 years ago.

STUDENTS have been making an exhibition of themselves for 50 years at the Young Scientist & Technology Exhibition.

FIRSTLY, well done on your huge year. Can you tell me the differences between the competitions in Dublin and in Prague?

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.

The 50th BT Young Scientist and Technology Exhibition has opened. Last year 1,200 students submitted 550 projects and over 45,000 people visited the exhibition.

The kind of small beginnings that U2 enjoyed in their own school could yet lead to fame for Ireland’s budding musicians, the Edge predicts.

Three third-year students from Kinsale Community College in Co Cork have won the overall prize at this year's BT Young Scientist Exhibition.

In the industrial age, 80% of people were hired for their skills from the neck down, but in today’s information age, 80% are hired for their attributes from the neck up.

The annual BT Young Scientist Exhibition kicks off at the RDS in Dublin today.

Denis Lehane previews the BT Young Scientist Exhibition

MINISTERS stalking the leadership of Fianna Fáil played a cagey game as they waited for the clock to run out on Taoiseach Brian Cowen’s consultation exercise.

A nervous wait lies ahead for students across Ireland gathered at Dublin's RDS as final judging gets underway ahead of the announcement tonight of the 2009 BT Young Scientist of the year.

This year's Young Scientist Exhibition is due to be officially opened at the RDS in Dublin today by President Mary McAleese.

VOCATIONAL school principals will not spend their time minding classes that require supervision because of the Government’s decision to cut back on payments for substitute teachers, a conference has heard.

TEACHERS have warned that students might be unable to take part in the BT Young Scientist and Technology Exhibition in January because government cutbacks will mean schools cannot pay a substitute for teachers to bring them to the event.

PAT KINSELLA already has difficulty every week organising substitution cover for teachers taking students out to school events or games.

TEACHERS should provide unpaid supervision of classes when colleagues are away with students for class activities or sports matches, Education Minister Batt O’Keeffe has suggested.

The annual Young Scientist and Technology Exhibition gets underway at the RDS in Dublin today.

Hundreds of schoolchildren are gathering at the RDS in Dublin today for the opening of this year's Young Scientist Exhibition.

A new magazine aiming to reverse the declining number of students taking science and engineering subjects at second and third level was launched today.

The atmosphere crackled with excitement – and one million volts of electricity - during an experiment displayed at the BT Young Scientist and Technology Exhibition’s opening ceremony today.

BT today announced that it will continue its sponsorship of the BT Young Scientist & Technology Exhibition, committing €1.5m over the next three years.

A new exhibition promoting social awareness among teenagers is set to become almost double the size of the established Young Scientist Exhibition, it was claimed today.

A Limerick student who designed a new computer programming language tonight won the Esat BT Young Scientist of the Year.

A record number of secondary school students have reportedly entered this year's Young Scientist Exhibition, which opens in the RDS in Dublin on Thursday.

A landmine detection device is among innovative projects on display at this year’s Young Scientist exhibition in Dublin.

A RECORD number of students have entered projects in the 40th Young Scientist & Technology Exhibition, which gets underway in Dublin this week.

FOR sheer self-confidence and raw imagination it would be hard to beat the performance of Irish students whose work goes on show today at the annual Young Scientist Exhibition.

STUDENTS from all over the country are busy setting up stands at the RDS in Dublin today to compete for the prize of Young Scientist of the Year.

PRESIDENT Mary McAleese has been forced to curtail public functions and will spend New Year’s Eve at home with family as she recovers from a broken ankle.

THE appliance of science is still alive and well in our schools, judging by the number of entries for this year’s Young Scientist & Technology Exhibition.