Tuesday 22 January 2013

Yesterday was the competition for mini company. We had to set up a little stall, showcasing our product and we all had to do a three minute presentation. Our mini company is called Stuzic. Its a study accessory app. We put study notes to popular songs to make study easy!
Tyhe stall ended up[ looking really good I thought. We got a professional poster done and we had helium baloons with our company name on it, we also got t-shirts done with our names, position in the company and logo on it. The judges came around and looked at our stall. They seemed really impressed and said that the quality of our songs were really good.
 After that it was time for our presentations. I was so nervous about the presentation that we had to do because we all had to stand up in the middle of the hall and talk in front of everyone. We all had our own little thing to say. When it was my go to speak I was so nervous. I'm terrible at public speaking! I stumbled through, stuttering but trying to act calm and professional... It didn't work.
After we gave our little presentation they asked us questions. They asked this question that I didn't really understand but for some strange reason, like the idiot I am, I decide to jump in and answer it. So there I am standing with no idea what to say. I managed to say some rubbish about something, but judging by the judges faces it was not the right thing to say : L. Luckily Ciara jumped in and answed it right.
After everyone had finished their presentations we were told who were shortlisted.. We were! Yay! We also won the innovation award. It was  good day :)

BT young scientist


Last Thursday I went to the BT Young Scientist exhibition in the RDS with my year. It was a good day but I was too tired to enjoy it really if I'm honest.
I skipped looking at all the projects and went straight to the place that give out loads of free stuff, I entered a load of competitions to win prizes but didn't win any in the end :( ....  disappointing.
 After a good while looking around there It started getting really packed and we were hungry so we went outside to eat. Usually they have a big chocolate fountain there, but for some reason this year it wasn't there!.. Damn. I'd spent most of the day searching for it.
After sitting in a cafe without buying anything for as long as we could we were forced to go back to the crowds. We decided to look around at the projects for a while.. You'd be suprized how many projects were on cows or something to do with cows... seriously.
We went over and looked at the project from Wolstans that made it this year. After that we found a stall that nobody was at.. so we decided to sit there and pretend it was ours... unfortunately while we were there a judge came over and started asking us questions... We started answering confidently.. but that lasted 10 seconds because I'm absolutely terrible at lying
.After apologizing we got up and walked around some more. While walking we came across a Que so me, Ciara and Alana decided to join it. It was to a 3D movie talk on space. That was good as we could sit down. The 3D worked really well! It was actually pretty cool. Also I found out there's like 10 different suns and our sun is like a midget sun.
After that we went outside to meet up with the rest of the year to go home. :)