Mini Company Competition

  Yesterday we had our mini company competition. Our group "Stuzic" was short listed and we won the award for innovation! 
  We came in early in the morning to the hall to set up our stall. We had a poster that had our logo and slogan on it that we pinned up to the board. Ciara brought in a white tablecloth that I drew music notes on. We had a laptop with all our songs so that people could listen to them and Ciara's phone with the preview of our app as we are waiting for it to be published. We had our CDs, musical instruments and customized balloons saying "Stuzic" also at our stall. All the girls in our group wore t shirts with our logo and name on it, jeans and our dubes. 
  When the judges arrived they went around to each stall to look at the products. When they came to ours they were really enthusiastic about our idea and thought it was a great concept combining music and study together. They listened to one of our songs and said that it sounded very good.
  When the judges were finished looking at all the products each group went up to make a 3 minute presentation. We were really nervous about the presentation but it all went well. After the presentation the judges asked questions, luckily we knew all the answers of the questions they asked and we were really happy about it.
  The judges announced the winners of each class for innovation, stall presentation and the business report. We were really happy when we found out that we were on the short list for the competition and that we won the innovation award.
  The third and second years then came in to see all the mini companies. Myself and Kate went around to them explained our idea and encouraged them to go to our stall to listen to the songs.
  Overall it was a very good day :)

Mini Comapany Stress!

 The mini company competition is next Monday and the pressure is on! My group is selling a cd and hopefully soon an app. The cd has nine popular songs with the lyrics changed to study notes. The purpose is to make studying easier and more enjoyable for Junior Certificate students.
  I have spent the last week almost living in my friend's house recording the songs! It is really time consuming as if a small mistake is made you need to start again.
  Luckily we have all the recording finished now. We are now working on publishing the app and the written report. The app is made but we have to enroll and pay 80 euro to publish the app on the app store. We contacted computer science students in Maynooth who previously helped us with the app for their advice and they told us to go for it. We hope to sell enough cds to pay for enrolling to publish the app. 
   This is a preview of our app to come!

BT Young Scientist

 Last Thursday we went to the BT Young Scientist. It was a really good day. When we went in we first looked around at all the projects and found the group from our school. Corrie, Lauren and Aisling's project was on the effects of heavy school bags on the neck, shoulders and spine. The project was really good and they won an award for best presentation.
 We then went to what we thought was a simulator but turned out to be a robot war. I actually enjoyed it but my friends weren't as impressed so we made a sneaky escape because it was very long!
  For lunch we went to the shops outside and I got chips and we went back to the canteen to eat. After lunch we went to a percussion workshop which we had signed up for earlier on in the day. It was ran be Irish Aid and we learned how to play the bongo, congos etc. It was great fun and we sang an African song while playing the drums. 
  In the arena they had a show with a huge robot. It sang songs and entertained the crowd with some jokes. Unfortunately we had to leave early because we had to be back for 2.45 for the bus.
  All in all it was a great day and I had loads of fun :) 

Back from the holidays!

  We are now back from our Christmas holidays and to be honest it is a shock to the system getting up early again. The last day before our Christmas holidays we had a fun packed day. It started off with a Christmas party for all the TYs in the library hosted by my class (Cairdeas). We brought in food and Aisling dressed up as Santa and gave out all the kris kindle presents. We then went bowling in Newbridge, unfortunately I didn't get a strike :( It was so much fun though. After we went to Newbridge Shopping Centre to get lunch. Overall it was a great day and we were all ready for the Christmas holidays.

  We're only back two days and we have a good week ahead. I start my second work experience placement tomorrow. I am doing it in a cafe in Maynooth, it should be good fun. On Thursday we're going to the BT Young Scientist. This will be my third time there and I'm looking forward to it because it's always a good day.