BT Young Scientist & Technology Exhibition 2010

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The exhibition Thursday, Jan. 14 until Saturday, Jan. 16 went ahead as planned and was opened to the public.

Innovative projects about science, technology, engineering, and math surfaced for the BT Young Scientist & Technology Exhibition 2010 by the students from all over Ireland.

Various remarkable technologies at the exhibition such as of the PanSphere, a project of Kevin Bluett, a fifth-year student at CBS KILkenny that requires creating a supercomputer to simulate pandemics including swine flu (H1N1) and other human viruses. The infrastructure for a virtual supercomputer that has the ability to simulate pandemics in order to produce accurate analysis patterns and track its movement globally has been encoded and created by the students engaged in the project.

One more distinguished project: the Ubuntu Linus operating system Zorin OS have been put into an experiment by a group of students interested to find if it can be a free, dependable, open-source and a better option to Windows.

The group of Richard O’Shea, an 18 year old student from Scoil Mhuire Gan Smal, Blarney, Co Cork is focusing at a global health issue about designing and developing a biomass-fired cooking stove for growing countries that is clean and economical and can be made from waste materials, such as tin cans.