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Nine projects from Westmeath schools have qualified for this year’s 50th BT Young Scientist & Technology Exhibition, to take place in January. The projects were chosen from 52 Westmeath entries to this year’s competition.

Students in Westmeath have entered 52 projects for next January’s BT Young Scientist & Technology Exhibition, which is shaping up to be the biggest competition yet.

A total of 846 Westmeath students have exhibited 437 projects in the RDS over the past 49 years as part of the BT Young Scientist & Technology Exhibition. The figures were revealed this week as the BT Young Scientist prepares to celebrate its 50th year.

The Rotary Club of Athlone has announced the winners of its annual writing competition. The competition aims to encourage young people to use their writing skills, creativity, and imagination. This year’s theme was ‘Peace’ and had to take the format of a letter written to anyone living, dead, or yet to be born.

Coffee containers, banana, copper wire, and electrical wire were some of the materials Westmeath students made use of to impress the judges at the national Junk Kouture final last Friday. Two stylish projects by Athlone students and one from Moate scooped awards at the grand final of the Junk Kouture Recycled Fashion Competition 2013 at the Bord Gais Energy Theatre, Dublin.

A total of 10 Westmeath projects are to take part in the sold-out grand finale of the Junk Kouture Recycled Fashion Competition 2013 at the Bord Gais Energy Theatre, Dublin today, Friday April 19.

Westmeath students have swept the boards at the Western final of the Junk Kouture Recycled Fashion Competition 2013. Of the 20 amazing outfits announced as finalists, 10 were designed by Westmeath students.

Students from Moate Community School and Convent of Mercy, Roscommon have been praised for their film entries in The Gathering Short Film Competition.

Infrared, Connemara ponies, fish oils, and feeding eggshells to hens are among the topics that have fascinated Westmeath studnts over the past number of months as they prepared their projects for the 2013 BT Young Scientist and Technology Exhibition, which kicks off in the RDS, Dublin next week.

Some 15 sporting clubs and organisations across the county are to benefit from over €450,000 of funding under the Government’s Sports Capital Programme.