Kildare primary schools awarded at Intel Mini Scientist competition
Runners up St Laurences NS pictured with Joe Bolger, Vice President Intel and Factory Manager alongside Phil Smyth
TWO Kildare schools came home with awards from the 2025 Intel Mini Scientist Competition.
St Laurence’s NS in Sallins received a runner up prize while Scoil an Linbh Íosa in Prosperous received the Sustainability Award at this year’s competition.
Commended for their respective projects ‘Why do people have different eyes colours?’ and ‘Biodegradable Plastics’, the schools took part in some exciting competition.
This year, over 6,800 students from 94 schools in 18 counties participated in the Mini Scientist competition.
The Grand Final brought together the top 80 projects from around the country.
From generating electricity to studying what makes your heart tick, these young scientists “really blew our socks off!”, said the judges.
Castleknock Educate Together were crowned the overall winners of the 2024/2025 Intel Mini Scientist competition. Prahaladh Pradeep won the award for his Evac Smart project developing a smart evacuation system. The system detects smoke and lights up the safest path for exit from the building.
The students were presented with their prizes by Sarah Sexton, Intel Public Affairs Director and Joe Bolger, Vice President Intel and Intel Factory Manager.
Congrats to the two Kildare schools for their brilliant achievements.
