Three Irish students have picked up prizes at the EU Contest for Young Scientists (EUCYS) in Milan.
Eimear Murphy and Ian O'Sullivan, both 17 and from Coláiste Treasa in Kanturk, Co Cork, picked up the Intel ISEF prize for their project examining the effects that parental alcohol consumption can have on their adolescent children.
Their prize will see them travel to and exhibit at the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair in Phoenix, Arizona next May.
Mark O'Dowd, 16, from Glanmire Community School in Cork took the Expo Milan 2015 prize.
Expo 2015 is based around the theme of 'Feeding the Planet - Energy for Life'and to coincide with thatm the EUCYS invited 18 projects around the theme to take part in a one off-exhibition at this year's contest.
Mark's project discovered that it is possible to improve crop yields by damaging crop seeds, under the principle of what does not kill you makes you stronger.
His prize was a laptop and a chance to take part in the closing ceremony of Expo 2015 in Milan in October.
The three first prizes at this year's competition were won by students from Poland, Germany and United States.
Among them was 15-year-old Sanath Devalapurkar from Los Angeles who won for his maths project on Algebraic K theory.
He is currently studying mathematics at third level at University College Los Angeles.
The other two winning projects were focused on the areas of computing and physics.
This year's 3 1st prize winners at #EUCYS2015 including Sanath Devalapurkar from US, the youngest winner ever at 15 pic.twitter.com/6vshPUlBz8
— Will Goodbody (@willgoodbody) September 21, 2015
