Eoin wins top NI prize at the BT Young Scientist and Technology exhibition

Eoin Rossney-Hyde, Lower VI, won three awards for his project at the BY Young Scientist & Technology Exhibition at Dublin's RDS.

1st Senior Individual for Social & Behavioural Sciences

BT Best School Northern Ireland

BT Northern Ireland Best Project 

Belfast Telegraph - 12 January 2025

Rathmore Grammar School has taken home the prize for Best Northern Ireland School at the 61st BT Young Scientist & Technology Exhibition.

This year’s esteemed student event received some of the highest number of NI entries it has experienced in eight years, with 14 projects from eight schools in Northern Ireland participating.

Held at Dublin's RDS on Friday and Saturday, Rathmore pupil Eoin Rossney-Hyde also took home the prize for Best Northern Ireland Project.

His project focused on ‘the application of abstract mathematical theories to mitigate against racial and gender bias in AI’.

Thousands of school students descended upon Ireland’s capital at the weekend to participate in the exhibition, which is one of the leading school science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) initiatives in the world, annually showcasing incredible STEM-focused ideas in project entries from secondary school students aged 12-19 years.

President of Ireland, Michael D. Higgins officially opened the event.

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