Cork farmer Jervis Good is the Young Scientist of the Year.
The 15th Aer Lingus Young Scientist Exhibition takes place at the Royal Dublin Society (RDS) in Dublin. This year sees 490 projects for the exhibition have been submitted by 1,000 young people from 27 counties.
The overall winner is 17 year-old Jervis Good of Glenny, Riverstick in County Cork. Unusually he is not a student, but a full-time tillage farmer on his father's farm.
Jervis Good’s winning project 'Know the Earwig – Then Control It’ earns him a £350 prize. He is also presented with a trophy by Niall Gerard Weldon secretary and general manager, corporate affairs Aer Lingus, who is chairperson of the panel of judges.
Other prizes are awarded to joint runners up Maurice Kernan from Belvedere College in Dublin for a study of sand dune structures and soils, and Patrick Grady from Community School, Falcarragh in County Donegal for a project ‘ Heat from the Wind’. They each win £200.
Winners of the Group Project award are Barbara Colfer, Helen Pope and Fidelma Moran from St Paul’s Secondary school in Greenhills, Dublin. Their project is a study of the variation of fauna in grass tussocks.
An RTÉ News report broadcast on 5 January 1979. The footage shown here is mute.
