A team of four teenagers from Dublin, Longford, Offaly and Tipperary claimed the winning spot at the 2015 BT Young Scientist Business Bootcamp with their project An Tionchar (The impact hurling boot) yesterday.
The winning project is a boot with a built-in water detection system, so the owner knows when it’s time for it to be replaced.
Renuka Chintapalli (15) from Loreto Secondary School Balbriggan in Dublin; Mark Lyons (16) from Lanesboro Community College in Longford; Shiofra Ryan (16) from St Brendan’s Community School in Offaly; and Jack O’Meara (16) from St Joseph’s College Borrisoleigh in Tipperary were names best overall team after impressing a panel of judges from academia, media and business with their pitch.
Kate Duggan (15) from Coláiste Iognaid in Galway was recognised as the best individual student.
The awards were presented at the end of a four-day workshop where students were shown how to turn a creative idea into a business proposition.
Congratulating all the participants, Shay Walsh, managing director of business, BT Ireland, said: “In creating the BT Business Bootcamp we wanted to help students bridge the gap between education and business and over the past few days we’ve seen some fantastic evidence of what the students have learned through the programme.”
For the first time, the BT Young Scientist Business Bootcamp will be replicated in two additional territories. BT will partner with the Khalifa University of Science, Technology & Research to host the first international BT Business Bootcamp in April. The first Northern Ireland Bootcamp will be hosted by Queens University Belfast later this year.
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