Welcome to Week 33 of The Buzz Newsletter!
It’s Week 33 of The Buzz Newsletter, & we hope you had a wonderful weekend! We are delighted to share that 2 Institute groups were winners at SciFest 2026 and have progressed to the National Finals. 4th Years Tavishi Mishra, Palak Rudraki, and Leo Zihan Xu won the Boston Scientific Medical Devices award for their project. 6th Year students Conor O’Neill and Alexander Vysotski were runners-up for their project. We wish them the very best of luck at Nationals!
Congratulations to Institute students Catherine McElroy, Keelin O’Donovan, Alexa Murphy and Clodagh Gray who won the Leinster Rugby Metro League with their team The Panthers!
Well done to 6th Year student Nayan Levy who has been accepted onto the Trumpet Performance degree at the world-renowned Conservatorium van Amsterdam. We wish him the very best of luck in this exciting next chapter!
Three of our 5th Year Mandarin students Xingjian Cao, Fiona Weng, and Eva Ruixin Chen successfully qualified for the Global Final of the 9th Global Chinese Recitation Competition. Two of our 6th Year students Stella Wei and Yutong Li achieved outstanding success in the World Chines Essay Competition. This is a prestigious international competition attracting entries from more than 30 countries. Well done everyone!
The UCAS application portal opened last week for anyone intending to study in the UK next year. The early closing date for Medicine, Dentistry and Ventinary courses and any courses in Oxford and Cambridge is 15th October, 2026. The final internal deadline for Institute students to have completed their application is 25th September 2026.
Any student who wishes to study Medicine or Dentistry in the UK from September 2027 is required to sit the UCAT later this Summer. Registration opens at 2pm on Wednesday, 20th May.
Best wishes to our 6th Years attending Graduation next Monday, 25th May. We wish you all the best in your Leaving Cert and in the future!
Masterclasses:
- This Monday, 18th May there is a Chemistry masterclass with Enda Dowd. It is Leaving Cert revision for 6 Years and is live online at 4:30pm. The link is on your Moodle.
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