The McGeehin brothers
DONEGAL students have picked up top honours at the BT Young Scientist of the Year awards.
Top of the class goes to Letterkenny brothers Ronan and Eóin McGeehin from Coláiste Ailigh who scooped two awards.
They came first in the Chemical, Physical and Mathematical sciences category.
They were also given the special Intellectual Ventures Award.
The teenagers wanted to develop an early warning system to tell motorists when the road surface becomes icy.
There was another first for Donegal when the Science Foundation Ireland Special Award went to Mulroy College student Chloe Bradley with her project to investigate the nutritive value of gorse and heather as a food source for mountain sheep!
Coláiste Ailigh student Odhrán Mac Fhionnghaile took silver on his study of Irish attitudes to global warming in the social and behavioural sciences section.
And Ultan O’Fearail, Conor Logue and Mikey Sweeney – also from Coláiste Ailigh – took runners-up spot in their category with the plant science project in the biological and ecological sciences section.