Last Thursday the DCC Scifest Team arrived at DCU to present their great projects.
On arrival to DCU they were greeted and allocated to their stands for presentation. after settling down and preparing their stands the judges went around asking and rating each stand, some projects really stood out such as ‘the affect of microgravity on the growth of plants’ Joe McDonald reported “for out project we created a device called the clinostat to simulate microgravity and we grew plants to see what would change between that and a controlled plant”
Another project titled ‘informed minority vs uninformed majority,’ Patryk Pieter and Eoghan McArdle reported “our experiment was about comparing two groups, one being an informed minority containing two people, and a uninformed majority containing five people, all people were randomly selected and had no prior relations, the purpose of the experiment was to find out how much information does an uninformed majority need to be able to consistently outclass an informed minority”.
Mathew Burke reported the ‘planck’s constant’ He says “using a spectrometer we found the wavelength of LED’s, the activation of each coloured LED and plotted a graph, this gave us the Planck’s constant”
After each project was judged they were given some free time to explore the college campus, have lunch and after attend the award ceremony, a couple DCU undergraduates and graduates presented their work from the past, about neuroscience, pollution and more. The award ceremony followed but DCC narrowly missed out.
Special thanks to Dr. Moran for bringing the team and all her hard work over the last few months in assisting groups with their work. Second Year students were presented with their Certificates last Friday!
Report by Nikolai Polnis Borzyk, TY Journalism.
