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"Making Waves" Science Week Show

As part of the recent activities for National Science Week, Mr O'Donoghue, assisted by fifteen transition year students, gave a lecture to nearly 200 fifth and sixth class pupils from St Mary's NS, the Robertson NS, and Sessiaghoneill NS in the Balor Theatre.

Entitled "Making Waves", and lasting 90 minutes, the show told the story of energy and waves, dealing with topics as diverse as voice-recognition, musical instruments, the speed of sound, volcanic eruptions, swaying buildings, rock concerts, fields of wheat, and Gaelic football.
The audience finished by making its own little earthquake