Mullingar Arts and Subject Choice

This Tuesday we had our Briery Gap qualifier in the Mullingar Arts Centre. Each group from our school performed their play infront of a judge and an audience from other schools.
In my opinion our play went very well and it was one of our best performances. Unfortunately the judge was an extreme pessimist who only gave us the bad points on our play, including our projection. Although that was slightly disheartening, it didn't kill our good moods gained from performing before an audience of our peers.

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Next week will be one of hard decisions and intense thinking, which there is usually a lack of  in TY, as each of us decides on our subjects for Leaving Cert. At the minute I am thinking about Art, Physics and Technology. Lately I have been thinking a lot about future careers and what I want to do as a job. My top choice would be in the Fashion Industry, with Film/Drama or Engineering as my back-up options. I've been searching up college courses and my dream would be to get into NCAD (National College of Art and Design), but its very hard to get in to. I'll try my hardest to reach this goal, but if I fall short there's always film and drama studies in Trinity.

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I better be ready for some hard work....

BT Young Scientist

   Last Thursday we went to the BT Young Scientist Exhibition in the RDS. A group from our school were entered and were highly commended for their work. Their project was the ideal conditions for learning in primary school. They tested different types of light, times of day and with or without music.  In the end they found out that morning classes with natural lighting and music without lyrics in the background helped the children learn.

   The exhibition itself was very good. It was great to walk around the projects and see what people our age had created. One of the best ideas I saw was a Life Ring box that had an alarm. The title of the project was "Wise Buoys" and they had come up with a device that set off an alarm and called the police when a life ring was removed. This would help people who had fallen in the water and stop the life rings being stolen and vandalised.

   My friends from Gonzaga also had a project at the exhibition. They had applied maths and algebra to a computer game called Minesweeper. It was very complicated but smart.

   So overall it was a great day and I learned a lot  x  

Projects Galore

At the minute our schedule is chock-a-block with projects. We have projects for English, Irish, Science, Religion and IT with due dates all in this month.
Our English project is a drama. We have written this ourselves and it's actually going very smoothly, which takes away stress from our other projects. The drama is called Same Love and it's about homosexuality in different eras.

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Our Irish project is on short movies in the Irish language and basically we have to do a review on one or maybe more? In truth, I don't know what's really going on because everything is vague and mumbled that comes out of said teacher's mouth.

Science is one of the more stressful projects. At the minute we are preparing a poster and booklet for the Scifest exhibition. The only problem is we are not organised at all and we still haven't completed our experiment or our survey, even though the whole project is due very soon. The only thing that is completely solid is our title and our background research on caffeine and coffee products.

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Our Religion project is definitely an eye-opener. We are taking part in writing a book about one of The Millennium Development Goals along with Self Help Africa. The goal we are focusing on is Preventing the spread of HIV/AIDS and other diseases. Me and Aisling are contributing by drawing a half/half portrait. On one side there will be an Irish woman and on the other side there will be an African woman. The caption will be "It's Not Only in Africa". We want to show that these things are not limited to third world countries and that lots of people in Ireland suffer from HIV/AIDS and other diseases.

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Fortunately the projects are all good fun and they help us build friendships with other people in TY.