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The BT Young Scientist and Technology Exhibition is an annual competition held in Dublin , Ireland early in the new year for encouraging interest in science in secondary schools, currently sponsored by BT Ireland . There were 1064 entries for the 2005 exhibition, although only 480 got through a screening process. The competition was founded in 1965 and celebrated its 42th anniversary this year. Previous to 1997, since its inception, the event was sponsored by Aer Lingus and known as the ''Aer Lingus Young Scientist Exhibition''.

The winners of the BT Young Scientist and Technology Exhibition go on to participate in international events such as the European Union Contest For Young Scientists and the Stockholm International Youth Science Seminar .


RECENT WINNERS OF THE COMPETITION

  • ''2006'': Aisling Judge became the youngest ever winner of the competition. The fourteen-year-old from Kinsale Community School was awarded the overall title for her project ''The development and evaluation of a biological food spoilage indicator''. In her project she produced a unique food indicator to let any member of the public say how fresh a food is regardless of the storage conditions.


  • ''2005'': Patrick Collison was the winner of the competition for his project ''Croma: a new dialect of Lisp''. His project produced a new Programming Language designed for making web pages. The name Croma is an anagram of Macro , which is a central part of the language. He went on to take second place at the 17th European Contest for Young Scientists in Moscow.


  • ''2004'': Ronan Larkin was the winner of the competition for his project ''Generalised Continued Fractions''. His project concerned new techniques for solving difficult mathematical equations.


  • ''2003'': Adnan Osmani was the winner for his project ''The graphical technological and user-friendly advancement of the Internet browser: XWebs''. He claimed to have developed a new networking Socket and Web Browser that enables faster Internet access even with an ordinary Modem . However, his browser, which he claimed would be commercially sold, has never been demonstrated. Aptly named ''' Icarus ''', no patents were awarded to him.



  • ''2001'': Peter Taylor, '''Shane Browne''' and '''Michael O'Toole''' were winners for their project ''Investigating symmetrical shapes formed by polygons''. They solved a problem in geometry concerning how regular polygons can be arranged into circular patterns of optimum symmetry.


  • ''2000'': Thomas Gernon won the title of Millennium Young Scientist of the Year for his project on “The Geography and Mathematics of Europe’s Urban Centres”. This was the first time in the competition's 36-year history that a Social & Behavioural Sciences project won the top award. In recognition of his achievement, Thomas was honoured with a joint civic reception from Louth County Council and Dundalk Urban District Council. He was later awarded the prestigious Alumni Prize at the 12th European Union Contest For Young Scientists , held in Amsterdam. In 2004, Thomas graduated with First Class Honours in Geology from University College Dublin . He is currently conducting a De Beers funded Ph.D. on the volcanic eruption mechanisms of diamond bearing rocks at the Department of Earth Sciences, University Of Bristol . This project involves both experimental work on particles and fieldwork at Jwaneng Diamond Mine in the Kalahari Desert, Republic of Botswana and the De Beers Venetia Mine on the South-Africa Zimbabwe border. His work on the internal structure of Volcanoes also takes him to many active volcanoes around the world, including those of Iceland, Italy, Greece and Far Eastern Siberia.


  • ''1999'': ''' in Thessaloniki , Greece . Flannery gained a BA in Computer Science from the University of Cambridge in 2003. At present she is working for Wolfram Research.


  • ''1998'': Raphael Hurley was the winner of the competition for his project ''The Mathematics of Monopoly''. In his project he determined a system for optimally selecting properties in the board game Monopoly , based on the probability of a player landing on those properties.



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