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THE RUNNER-UP project at last year’s young scientist exhibition has evolved into a web-based company which is a corporate exhibitor at this year’s show.

Then Leaving Cert students at Ursuline College Sligo, Eimear O’Carroll, Rhona Togher and Niamh Chapman entered the project The Sound of Silence in 2009 with their physics teacher Anthony Carolan.