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News from around the Schools & Centres

Avondale Community College in Rathdrum
Two budding entrepreneurs from Avondale Community
College in Rathdrum represented KWETB at the Scifest
National Final on 7 November 2014.
Having qualified as the overall winners of the Carlow
Institute of Technology Scifest in May 2014, Fifth Year
students Mark Roche and Cormac Ward presented their
project Be on Track with the BVD Pack alongside the
winners from the other 14 Institutes of Technology in the
country.
Their research concerns the area of cow tagging and
testing for the cow virus, Bovine Viral Diarrhoea (BVD).
All calves on Irish farms must be tagged and have a tissue
sample removed and tested for BV \