Doing us proud!
Two Cork teenagers have taken home the top prize in this year's European Union Contest for Young Scientists.
Cormac Harris and Alan O'Sullivan won the BT Young Scientist Award in 2020 with their project on gender stereotyping.
Cork teens triumph at EU young scientist competition https://t.co/4o3SNeFXsq
— Irish Examiner (@irishexaminer) September 19, 2021
Having scooped the top prize last year, the pair from Coláiste Choilm were entered into the European contest.
Representing Ireland at the EUCYS this year, the two students came out on top against students from 39 other countries.
The Irish Examiner reports that the teenagers held workshops with 376 5-7 year olds from a range of school settings.
They had a number of different tasks for them, including: choosing between gender-specific and gender-neutral toys; drawing and naming an engineer, and; rating male and female competency at a number of gender-specific roles.
"Their findings identified the need to focus on all children from a young age in order to combat the development of gender stereotyping."
Cork had a great day at the contest with the winner of BT Young Scientist 2021, Gregory Tar from Bandon, taking home third prize for his project on deep fake videos.
Double Award winners @EUCYS2020/21 – amazing results for Ireland 2020BTYSTE winners Cormac Harris & Alan O’Sullivan have won a first prize (2020) .& Greg Tarr 2021 BTYSTE winner won a Third prize This now makes it 16 first prize wins out of 32 years of EUCYS pic.twitter.com/NfR4JLudRm
— BT Young Scientist (@BTYSTE) September 19, 2021
