Schools share €75,000 for Young Scientist travel fund

A total of €75,000 has been shared between 139 schools as part of the latest round of travel funding for the BT Young Scientist exhibition.

The fund is aimed at encouraging competitors from secondary schools around the country to enter the annual exhibition which takes place in the RDS in Dublin every January.

Competition sponsors BT said this year’s funding brought the overall amount provided to schools to more than €500,000 since 2006.

Schools that are located more than 70km from the RDS are entitled to apply for between €150 and €1,500, depending on the number of entrants they are sending to the event.

The head of the BT Young Scientist exhibition, Mari Cahalane, said the fund provided school-goers in more remote areas with the chance to take part.

“With this grant, there’s no stopping any school from entering,” she said.

The deadline for applications for next year’s competition is on September 29th, with the show from January 6th-9th.