This year the team comprised of Joe Muldowney, Barry Walshe, and I. 

We entered  ‘The Chemical, Physical and Mathematical Sciences’ section of the competition this year with our project;

"Indicating - Better Bike Safety". Our project focused on road safety and we conceived a device; "The Indibrake 2000", which allows cyclists to indicate turns and gives them the use of a brakelight. This makes them less vulnerable on the roads. Although we didn’t figure among the prize-winners, we had a great time none the less, and our project attracted widescale attention, more so than other projects on our row. over the two years we had a great experience.

FIRST PRIZE     YOUNG SCIENTISTS OF 1999.

Barry Walsh, Steven O’ Rourke, and I decided to enter the Esat Young Scientists and Technology exhibition last year after we discovered that the public in general were unaware of when the third millennium is due to begin. We first intended to find out that ourselves and prove that our finding was in fact the start of the millennium. We found that the correct starting date to be the first of January 2001, after we conducted an extensive survey, and checked out library sources. As it happened, the reason for the actual date being in 2001 is simple; there was no year ‘0’, so the first year was ‘1 AD’ 2000 years later would obviously be 2001.We used several methods of time measurements aside from the standard time-keeping devices.

Coming up to the exhibition, we and Mr. Ferry, who oversaw the project, worked on putting together all of our evidence and documentation’s and created a power point presentation on the computer. We used the computer as part of our display at the R.D.S. at the beginning of January. We had three judging sessions, and in the end we won first prize in the display category of ‘The Chemical, Physical and Mathematical Sciences’ section. We gained great exposure afterward through R.T.É., C.K.R., and various local newspapers.