Killarney

By Michelle Crean
<h3>Entering a science competition was &#8220;plane sailing&#8221; for three Transition Year students who won a prize in MTU recently.</h3>
Oisin Dineen, Diarmuid O&rsquo;Connor and Mark Sheehan from St Brendan&rsquo;s College entered the Rethinking Engineering Education in Ireland (REEdI) at Munster Technological University (MTU) during Science Week.
 Their brief was to build a model aeroplane from scratch using recycled materials &#8211; but they had to put their engineering skills to the test and make it fly!
 And after a number of attempts they managed to get it going, and their successful entry saw them each receive a &euro;100 One4all voucher and &euro;500 for the school&#8217;s science department.
 &#8220;The project was to design an areoplane that could fly,&#8221; Eimear Buckley, their TY Coordinator, told the Killarney Advertiser.
 &#8220;The made three different designs and this one worked out the best entry as the back of it was wider than the front. It&#8217;s made using recycable materials, timber and paper, and the lads used a timber frame. They worked really hard on it and as TY coordinator, and the school, we are very proud of them.&#8221;

Students engineering skills put to the test

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