Irish Students win at Science Fair

The students were awarded for their projects, which focused on assistive technology for the visually impaired and machine learning for dental imaging.

Ireland claimed two awards at this year’s Eskom Expo for Young Scientists International Science Fair (ISF) in South Africa.

Maura Moore-McCune from The King’s Hospital School in Dublin was awarded a Gold Medal Award and Best in Category Award in the biomedical and medical sciences category for her project titled ‘VIPMOD: Visually Impaired Person’s Moving Object Detector’.

Her project offers assistive technology to help visually impaired individuals navigate their surroundings more independently and safely.

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