Enrolling Night

A very successful Open night took place on November 10^th with a very large crowd in attendance.  Enrolling Night will take place on Monday November 23^rd from 7.30pm to 9pm.  The closing date for enrolment for first year students who wish to commence at Borrisokane Community College in September 2016 is Friday December 11^th 2015.

SciFest Winner

Congratulations to Lorcan Tuohy-Donnelly from Borrisokane Community College on winning the excellence in STEM award at the national SciFest final in Marino College, Dublin on Friday the 6^th of November.

Lorcan qualified to go through to this stage when he won the SEAI (Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland) award at the LIT SciFest competition held In LIT Thurles early in 2015.

Lorcan’s project “It’s An Ill Wind That Blows No Good” investigated the overall effect of wind speed and blade length on the power produced by wind turbines.

Lorcan discovered that when wind reaches a certain speed level the maximum energy is produced. Any speeds greater than this do not produce any extra energy. In addition, he hypothesised about the impact of blade length on the efficacy of the turbine. As Lorcan developed his research he was able to verify his results mathematically using “Betz’s Law” which defines the power co-efficient of a wind turbine.

Futsal:

The first year boys Futsal squad competed in the County Futsal blitz on Tuesday Nov 10th.

The Borrisokane boys performed excellently on the day winning their group. On the way to the final they had outstanding victories over Thurles CBS, Carrick CBS and Nenagh College. They are pictured below with their Runners up medals after the final against the High School from Clonmel.

Team: Dylan Slevin, Colm Fogarty, Ruairi Connelly, Conor Ryan, Darragh Ryan, Bill Cleary, Sean Connolly, Kevin Cleary, Hugh Guest, Neil Cahalan, Barry Shanahan, Paul Dwyer

Science Week:

As part of science week, class 1D completed a science project and presented it to the whole class under the guidance of their teacher Ms. Hayes. To recognise their great effort and achievement, they were presented with a Certificate of Achievement.

Students involved were Eilidh Pope, Ruairi Nightingale, James McDermott, Erin Ryan, Padraig Coonan, Sean Connolly, Oisin Carroll, Neil Cahalan,  Aoife O’Sullivan, Megan Usman, Russel De Sylva, Joe Naughnane, Denis Sheehy, Conor Moyles, , Eddie Quinlan (missing from photo Colm Cleary, Paul Dwyer, Sinead Hackett, Laura Leenane, Erin Lynch, Clodagh Ryan, Aine Slattery, Hannah Tucker and Emma Bonfield).