Welcome to Week 25 of The Buzz Newsletter!
It’s Week 25 of The Buzz Newsletter! We are delighted to share that our students won the IMTA Team Maths Dublin Regional Final, held on 5th March at Alexandra College. Our winning team of Tianci Yan, Kent Liu, Justin Li and Shiqing Zhang have now qualified for the national finals, taking place on Saturday 25th April. Congratulations also to our three other teams who also performed very well, finishing 5th, joint 5th, and 8th. Due to their high scores int he regional competition, some of these teams may also qualify for the finals in April. Sincere thanks to Oliver Murphy for coordinating and accompanying the teams, and best of luck to everyone competing in the national finals.
Congratulations to our Robotics Club who qualified for the VEX V5 Robotics Ireland, held in MTU Cork on 24th February. Alec Vysotski, Conor O’Neill, Sutlej Suresh, Jennifer Zhang, and Mark Fedorenko have been building their robot since September. Throughout the process they gained valuable hands-on experience in both mechanical engineering and coding as they designed, built, and programmed a fully functional robot. Well done to our students, and to our robotics mentor Adam Goodwin for their hard work, dedication, and excellent representation of the school at national level.
Best wishes to our 6th Years who are sitting the Medical Selection Admission Test (MSAT) test in UL campuses over two weekends.
The deadline for the submission of portfolios for IADT courses requiring a portfolio is Tuesday 10th March at 10am.
There are a number of college Open Days taking place in the coming weeks; UG, DCU, MU and TUD.. There is a mini open day in RSCI over the Easter break on Tuesday March 31st. Registration is required in advance.
It is important for students to apply for exemptions in either Irish and/or the third language from the National University of Ireland in Merrion Square (UCD, MU, UG, UCC, RCSI, NCAD) or from a language from Trinity College Dublin and University of Limerick if you are elligible and this hasn’t already been granted.
The International SAT tests (US College Admissions) take place on a number of occasions throughout the year in St. Andrew’s College, Booterstown. The next suite of tests take place on Saturday, 14th March. Registration to take these tests would have had to have been made before March 3rd. There will be further opportunities to take the SAT on May 2nd and June 6th – registration is required in advance.
Masterclasses:
- This Monday, 9th March, there is a French masterclass with Nicky Dowling for Oral Preparation. It is for 5th & 6th Years at 5pm in room G-7.
*Students must register online to attend these events.
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