9th, Jan, 15
Today we went up to Dublin to see the BT Young Scientist's Exhibition. I was looking forward to it because there is always very interesting things to see at it. Some of my class mates tried to enter it but didn't get through to the exhibition. As soon as we arrived we were met by flood of other school students from all over the country. When we finally got into the place we went straight to see the robot wars. This is usually the best part. It was inside a large tent like a circus one with a small arena in the middle. When we took our seats a host presented each robot and we counted down the fights. Before the fight started though two 'judges' were brought out, a life size Dalek and a creeper, from minecraft. It was very cool to see the robots, they were designed very well. When the actual robot fight started it was very fun. Loud music was blaring and the crowd was shouting. The robots knocked each other over but bounced back upright. Neither robot won in the first fight so they brought out two new robots, one for the girls team and another for the lads team. There was a lot of competition of the gender going on but in the end the 'girl' robot won (of course). I admire the skill the people have to build these amazing robots, and they put on a really good show.
After the robot fight we went around and looked at all of the schools projects. Some of them were amazing, I couldn't of even of thought of these things myself. I didn't get a chance to go around and look at all of the stalls because there simply wasn't enough time, also the large crowds didn't help but you can't blame people for wanting to see these projects. I learnt a couple of new things aswel.
Overal I really enjoyed this day out and learnt lots of new things. I would love to enter it some year but it is very difficult to get picked amoung the thousands of entries, but I am hopeful. The winner will be announced this evening and they win very big prizes and go into an EU science competition.
Robot war presenter.
The girls robot (The Champion!!)
The Lads Robot
Creeper

The Dalek
Some interesting projects I saw.