Kerry girls Ciara, 17, Saoirse, 15, and Laoise Murphy, 12, won the top prize with their project, ACT (Aid Care Treat): App-timising emergency response.
All three are students at Presentation Secondary School in Tralee, Co. Kerry, and the Murphy sisters beat 545 other projects from 223 schools around the country.
The trio worked with the Department of Health, the HSE, the National Ambulance Service and the gardaí to help get the most out of their app.
The ACT app is designed to tackle challenges in transferring medical data effectively and efficiently to the emergency services. The app also has the capability to share precise geolocation co-ordinates.
Once the data reaches the emergency services, there is the possibility for onward transmission to the dispatch control centres, the attending mobile units, and the hospitals in a matter of seconds.
This is the second year this project has been recognised at the exhibition having previously been awarded Runner-Up Group in 2024.
For the first time in the competition’s history, the overall winners, along with one senior project from each of the four remaining categories, will be awarded a trip to the World Expo in Osaka, Japan.
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The winners will also represent Ireland at the European Union Contest for Young Scientists (EUCYS) in Riga, Latvia, in September.
Education Minister Norma Foley said: "I’d like to sincerely congratulate Ciara, Saoirse and Laoise Murphy from Presentation Secondary School in Tralee, Co. Kerry on their extraordinary achievement of winning top prize in the BT Young Scientist and Technology Exhibition 2025.
"This win is testament to their creativity, dedication and hard work and the tremendous support of their family, teachers and school."
Tomás Markey 18, and in 6th year in St. Brogan's College, Bandon in Cork, won the prize for Best Individual, with his project, PM-DAC: A system for removing CO2 from the atmosphere.
PM-DAC is a Passive & Modular Direct Air Capture framework that reduces the cost of carbon dioxide sequestration in the fight against climate change.
* This article was originally published on Evoke.ie.
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