Total of 26 local projects qualify for Stripe Young Scientist
A total of 26 local projects have qualifed for the 2026 The Stripe Young Scientist & Technology Exhibition.
Taking place from Wednesday, January 7, to Saturday, January 10, in the RDS Main Arena in Ballsbridge, Dublin.
Each year, thousands of students submit proposals, with only about 500 projects selected for display at the four-day exhibition in Dublin. During the event, students present their work to panels of judges and the public. The exhibition culminates in an awards ceremony, where prizes are distributed and one team or individual is named the overall Stripe Young Scientist & Technologist of the Year.
Marist College
Utilization of Spoiled Milk for the Sustainable Production of Biofuel
This project aims to explore whether spoiled milk can be transformed into ethanol, bio-diesel, biogas, or hydrogen offering a sustainable way to reduce food waste while producing clean renewable energy.
Stand number: 1202
Biological & Ecological Sciences
Moate CS
Chew Green: Unsticking The Problem
This project aims to produce Chew Green; a biodegradable chewing gum made sustainably from Irish-grown resources offering a reduced environmental impact and easier surface removal.
Stand number: 1206
Biological & Ecological Sciences
RoadSense: Piezo-Powered Energy Harvesting from Traffic
This project aims to design a piezoelectric system to allow the adaptation of existing road infrastructure for the harvesting of waste kinetic energy from traffic.
Stand number: 5307
Technology
Elo Evolution: Redefining Chess Ratings
This project aims to establish the relationship between World Chess Federation ratings and skill level, and use the results collected to develop an alterative rating system.
Stand number: 3100
Social & Behavioural Sciences
More than Makeup: The Female Athlete's Struggle in the Eye of the Media
This project aims to determine the prevalence of beauty descriptors in the depiction of male and female athletes in the Irish media and the impact on teenage perceptions.
Stand number: 3512
Social & Behavioural Sciences
From Irish Fields to Salmonella Shields: Producing Natural Egg Coatings to Inhibit the Bacterial Contamination of Eggs
This project aims to produce an egg coating from natural substances to inhibit spoilage and reduce the entry of pathogenic micro-organisms.
Stand number: 2507
Health & Wellbeing
Ferma-Aid: Using Fermentation to Produce Nutritious, Easily Digestible and Sustainable Emergency Food Aid
This project aims to use fermentation to create an emergency food aid package using basic materials that delivers enhanced digestibility, bioavailability and shelf-life to those in conflict zones.
Stand number: 2504
Health & Wellbeing
TerraSolar: Developing Plant-Based Dyes for Use in Dye-Sensitised Solar Cells in Tunisia
This project aims to produce a plant-based dye formula using Mediterranean species that sustainably and effectively converts light to electrical energy in dye-sensitised-solar cells.
Stand number: 4412
Chemical, Physical & Mathematical Sciences
MyceliClean: Harnessing Fungal Bioelectricity for Off-Grid Water Sterilisation
This project aims to purify water sustainably using a biodegradable mycelium battery.
Stand number: 4516
Chemical, Physical & Mathematical Sciences
Freeze-Free Drinkers: Engineering Freeze-Resistant Livestock Drinking Systems
This project aims to design and build a drinker that inhibits the freezing of water during winter, ensuring an uninterrupted supply for livestock.
Stand number: 4406
Chemical, Physical & Mathematical Sciences
Using Native Irish Plants to Reinvigorate Soils Following Prolonged Flooded at Lough Funshinagh
This project aims to produce a fermented bioactive soil conditioner from native plants to remediate flooded farmland through targeted nutrient replacement and microbial community restoration.
Stand number: 1403
Biological & Ecological Sciences
Our Lady's Bower
Cut Emissions not Cattle - Reducing Emissions Throughout the Lifetime of Irish Beef Cattle
This project aims to explore the reduction of emissions across a beefs animals lifetime by improving calf feeding, replacing chemical fertilisers with seaweed, and treating slurry with natural additives
Stand number: 1518
Biological & Ecological Sciences
Coral Reef Recovery: An investigation using modern technology to prevent coral reef bleaching.
This project explores the use of modern technology to detect factors making coral reefs vulnerable to bleaching.
Stand number: 5524
Technology
AI in action: A smarter way to learn
This projects intends to develop an ANI that shows how AI should be used in education, specifically in reading comprehension.
Stand number: 5523
Technology
Dyslexia in Ireland Under the Microscope
This project offers an investigation into the accommodations that are given to students with Dyslexia in Ireland. Specifically the need for extra examination time which isn’t given.
Stand number: 3611
Social & Behavioural Sciences
Do youth individual sports teach resilience in future athletes, or do they discourage children at an early age - and does parental ambition shape these impacts
This projects investigates youth individual sports like horse riding and sailing, specifically the impact they have on their mental children’s mental health.
Stand number: 2533
Health & Wellbeing
Persona Plate
This project aims to develop an app for teenage picky eaters to help improve their diet. It will investigate how being a picky eater affects people's health.
Stand number: 2525
Health & Wellbeing
Athlone Community College
Smarter Cancer Staging: Using Machine Learning to Find What Stage a Cancer Is In
By applying machine learning to patient data, this project predicts what stage a cancer in someone is in, aiming to support earlier and smarter diagnosis.
Stand number: 5205
Technology
Enduring Learning Dynamics: A Novel Approach to Analyse and Improve Forgetting and Alignment Drift in Machine Learning
This project aims to analyse and reduce catastrophic forgetting and alignment drift in AI using mathematical and computational methods, aiming for efficient, reliable ML systems.
Stand number: 4207
Chemical, Physical & Mathematical Sciences
Coláiste Chiaráin
Automated plant watering system
This automated plant watering system can reduce the risk of under or over watering plants compared to human watering. It can also reduce water waste.
Stand number: 5512
Technology
Are Gummy Vitamins as effective as Traditional Vitamin Tablets?
This project is aims to explore whether gummy bear vitamins are effective than Vitamin Tablets.
Stand number: 2417
Health & Wellbeing
Glow With The Flow
This project aims to create gender neutral bracelets using UV beads that change colour/glow in different strengths of UV rays to protect farmers from risk of harmful UV damage.
Stand number: 2518
Health & Wellbeing
Brewed Bandages: Can Teabags Be An Alternative for Traditional Wound Dressings?
This project investigates whether tea bags could serve as dressings for minor wounds compared with sterile gauze by measuring antimicrobial activity and basic dressing performance.
Stand number: 2511
Health & Wellbeing
Mushrooms vs Mutations: can Irish fungi fight cancer?
This project explores whether Irish mushrooms contain compounds that can fight cancer, offering a natural, sustainable, and potentially non-toxic approach to future therapies.
Stand number: 2204
Health & Wellbeing
Testing sound barriers
This project explores how everyday materials reduce and absorb sound and using this to design our own sustainable earbud design to help.
Stand number: 4504
Chemical, Physical & Mathematical Sciences
When Nature Repairs: Seaweed-Enhanced Self-Healing Concrete
This project tests whether adding seaweed powder to concrete improves crack self-healing while preserving strength, reducing water absorption, and lowering cement-related CO₂ emissions.
Stand number: 4201
Chemical, Physical & Mathematical Sciences