Commons:Wiki Science Competition 2017/Winners/Ireland

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These are the finalists for WSC2017 in Ireland.

This country-level selection had a specific national organizer and a national coordination page.

Files

• This country has a category for its files, other files from there might have been uploaded after the local deadline and moved to the 2017 international category if such deadline was still valid.
• As of now, the files in the local category uploaded within the local deadline are 82, with no obviously unsuitable file.
• Uploaders statistics are available here.

Specific classes of files

• No video was uploaded in this category.
• This country had at least one set of images. See Image sets from Wiki Science Competition 2017 in Ireland.

Jury

• the selection was performed by the local jury, with no tool.
• Main coordinator: Rebecca O'Neill
• the jurors were chosen by the local organizers

• Jessica Hillard - Science Gallery, Dublin
• Shaun O'Boyle - Science communicator
• Rebecca O'Neill - Wikimedia Community Ireland

• the selection lasted from 2017-12-01 to 2017-12-08.
• The results were published on 2017-12-09 (winners) and 2018-01-24 (finalists)

Prefinalists

No information about prefinalists was given in this case.

Finalists

People in science

1st national finalist		2nd national finalist
An experiment in which a student is able to hold a ball of fire in her hands due to methane bubbles. Scohen2017 National winner		PhD student Hajrah Khawaja currently working in the Centre for Cancer Research and Cell Biology in Belfast. Zcsharp Special national winner "Women in STEM"

Microscopy images

1st national finalist		2nd national finalist
SEM image showing the growth of a series of nanowires of germanium telluride from the side of a silicon wafer. Fionán National winner		Series of micro pillars composed of varying amounts of germanium, antimony and tellurium Fionán

Non-photographic media

1st national finalist		2nd national finalist
Ten seconds of long wave radio spectrum as recorded in Dublin before, during and after a lightning strike. Dwmalone National winner		Heatmap showing the genetic distance of a global array of samples (Y axis) to references (X axis) with smaller distances given as darker colours. ETOH

Image sets

1st national finalist		2nd national finalist
Montage of an image of neurons, captured using a confocal microscope. Enricobagnoli National winner		Specimens of rutilated quartz. FluffyThornOnRose

General category

1st national finalist		2nd national finalist
The contrast between the red blood cells from a cancer patients (left) and a healthy donor (right). Karen Slattery National winner		UV Sterilisation of pipettes and tips in a Biosafety Cabinet. Orla Keogh