Octane Racing from Dundalk Grammar School, have been declared the overall winners of the 2011 F1 in Schools Technology Challenge, powered in Ireland by the Irish Computer Society at the National Finals held in Griffith College Dublin last Thursday.
Team members Niall Donnolly, Adam Matthews, Kevin O’Malley, Daniel Finnamore, Daniel McCarthy-Edwards and Rollo Konig-Brock were co-ordinated by teacher Scott Nowell.
The team fought off competition from 23 other teams from all over Ireland to claim the National Title and trophy as well as the opportunity to represent Ireland in the 2011 World Championships in Malaysia in September and €2,000 in prize money.
Work for the 2011 Finals began last September with schools registering their interest in competing. Intense competition followed with 600 students representing 150 second level schools from across the country battling their way through the various stages of the competition to reach the National Finals.
In addition to racing head to head, the competing teams were judged on the quality of engineering, portfolio, resource management, marketing, graphic design and sponsorship activities and on a verbal presentation of their work.
ICS Skills CEO Jim Friars said: “Congratulations to all the teams who took part in this year’s competition. The standards were exceptionally high and it is always great to see how enthusiastic the students are about the competition.”
This is Dundalk Grammar School’s fourth year in the competition and second consecutive year winning the National Finals.
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