{"id":49373,"date":"2025-11-16T15:50:04","date_gmt":"2025-11-16T15:50:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mercynavan.ie\/index.php\/students-qualify-for-the-2025-stripe-young-scientist-competition\/"},"modified":"2025-11-16T15:50:04","modified_gmt":"2025-11-16T15:50:04","slug":"students-qualify-for-the-2025-stripe-young-scientist-competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mercynavan.ie\/index.php\/students-qualify-for-the-2025-stripe-young-scientist-competition\/","title":{"rendered":"Students Qualify for the 2025 Stripe Young Scientist Competition"},"content":{"rendered":"

Students from St Joseph\u2019s of Mercy Secondary School, Navan have once again demonstrated their creativity and scientific curiosity by qualifying for the 2025 Stripe Young Scientist and Technology Exhibition.<\/span><\/p>\n


Transition Year students Emma Fitzsimons, Genevieve Dorrigan, and Holly McKeigue explore whether assertiveness in young athletes can be taught in \u201cTiny Leaders on the Pitch.\u201d<\/span>

Meanwhile, Orla Whelan, Grace Fogarty, and Derbhla Hurley investigate how solving jigsaw puzzles might boost children\u2019s visual-spatial reasoning in \u201cThe Power of Puzzles.\u201d<\/span>

Fifth-year students Bohdana Dordyak and Lavinia Siretanu take a closer look at education reform with \u201cStudents\u2019 and Teachers\u2019 Perspectives on the Impact of Junior Cycle Descriptors,\u201d<\/span>

while solo entrant Diana Cirimpei delves into the mysteries of consciousness in \u201cCan Our Brain Alone Explain Our Thoughts and Feelings?\u201d<\/span>

Together, these inspiring young scientists uphold St Joseph\u2019s proud tradition of innovation and inquiry\u2014proving that curiosity and creativity are alive and thriving in Navan.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Students from St Joseph\u2019s of Mercy Secondary School, Navan have once again demonstrated their creativity and scientific curiosity by qualifying for the 2025 Stripe Young Scientist and Technology Exhibition. Transition Year students Emma Fitzsimons, Genevieve Dorrigan, and Holly McKeigue explore whether assertiveness in young athletes can be taught in \u201cTiny Leaders on the Pitch.\u201dMeanwhile, Orla […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":49372,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mercynavan.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49373","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mercynavan.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mercynavan.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mercynavan.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mercynavan.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49373"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mercynavan.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49373\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mercynavan.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mercynavan.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mercynavan.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mercynavan.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}