Rachel Hamm and Ella Ryan from Moate Community School in Westmeath won the award for their project ‘Banana Bandages: A Sustainable Approach to Wound Care’, the development of biodegradable bandages from plant waste for use in developing countries such as Somalia to improve the access to medical aid.

Vedh Kannan and Will Carkner from Sutton Park School in Dublin won for their work on ‘BloodBox: A Diagnostic Tool for Blood-Borne diseases’, a low-cost, reusable diagnostic device which provides improved and more equitable access for the diagnosis of malaria.

Jona Garcia, Claudine Mulihano and Iman Shittu from St. Louis Secondary School in Dundalk won the award for their project: ‘A renewable and electricity-free cooling system for food refrigeration that can combat world hunger’, identifying the enormous challenge of food waste in countries where people live without electricity.

https://selfhelpafrica.org/ie/power-free-way-to-preserve-food-wins-student-science-prize/

Aronnya Khan Zakaria from Castletroy College in Limerick won with her project on 'The Development of Racial Prejudice in Children’, which seeks to identify why some people learn to view the world through racist stereotypes.

https://selfhelpafrica.org/ie/science-for-development-event-sees-innovative-projects/

Sophie McElligott and Salome Maher Bordalo from St Joseph’s Mercy Secondary School in Navan won for their project ‘Period,’ which proposed the creation of an ethical sanitary towel for school going girls in poorer countries of the world, together with an awareness raising and sensitisation campaign on the menstrual cycle of teenagers.

https://selfhelpafrica.org/ie/science-prize-for-navan-students/

Seán Byrne from Avondale Community College in County Wicklow picked up the for a project that examined how eggshells can be used in the purification of water in the Developing World.

https://selfhelpafrica.org/ie/btys-winner-2019/

Timothy McGrath, from Killorglin Community College in Co.Kerry, received the 2018 Science for development Award. Using genetic engineering to purify cholera-infected water, his project sought to develop a micro-organism that feeds on the cholera bacteria.

https://selfhelpafrica.org/ie/winner-btys-2018/

Jack O’Connor and Diarmuid Curtin from Desmond College, Newcastle West, Co. Limerick became the recipients of the 2017 award for their Ergonomic Planter, designed for use in developing countries. Jack and Diarmuid, both sixth year students, developed the planter as a way to minimise seed/ plant wastage, improve production by ensuring consistency of planting, increase land usage by guiding farmers in their planting all whilst reducing back strain and increasing speed of planting.

https://selfhelpafrica.org/ie/seedplanter/

Ben Conlon, Ruaidhrí Jordan and Mason Scallan from Salesian College in Celbridge won the 2016 award with their project to water in developing countries using a chemical compound called sodium polyacrylate.

https://selfhelpafrica.org/ie/water-project-wins-schools-science-award/

Megan Duffy and Zoe McGirr from Oakgrove College in Derry were selected as 2015 winners with their project, which created a seed harvesting kit for subsistence farmers in Africa.

Emily Lecky and Zoe Cheshire from Ballyclare High School in Antrim won for a solar powered water sanitation furnace made with tinfoil and plastic drinking bottles, designed to be used in humanitarian emergencies and in regions with poor sanitation.

Clonakilty Community School scooped the award for the second time in three years - this time Transition year students Fergus Jayes, Darragh O’Donovan and Ciaran Crowley winning, with their solar powered fridge.

Keane Nolan and DJ Hanley from St Mary’s Academy, CBS, Carlow won for a project that analysed raw versus pasteurised milk, and the potential use of natural preservatives in milk.

Students from Clonakilty Community College took the award with a project focused on better food production from small garden plots.

Richie O’Shea from Cork became the first Science for Development Award winner to also achieve the overall BT Young Scientist of the year. His project focused on a low cost fuel efficient stove.

Students from Muckross College, Donnybrook, Dublin, won the award in 2009 with their study on home birth practices and services in rural Kenya.

Leaving Cert. student Tara McGrath from Presentation School, Kilkenny, won the 2008 award with her fuel-efficient pressure cooking device.

A device that sought to purify drinking water using solar panels won the 2007 award for a group of students from St. Joseph’s Secondary School in Creggan, Derry.

The inaugural winners of the award were students from Moyne Community School, Co. Longford, who won the award for their study on volunteering and support for charity in Ireland.