Colour Me Beautiful :)

On Friday the 15th Of October, we were visited by Liz and Louise from Colour Me Beautiful. They took us for 3 classes in the morning. They told us all about what colours suit us based on our skin tone, eye colour and hair colour. This included what colour clothes, eyeshadows and even lipsticks will suit our compection best :) They told us our catagory and we had to sit with our group. I was a soft and the celebrity that represented this catagory was Jennifer Aniston, which I was confused about because I thought i would have been a clear, as these are people with dark hair and blue or green eyes. In the soft group were people with dirty blonde hair; in-between blonde and brown.
I felt out of place in the group but as they told us about our group and the colours we were suited best to I found out that I fit perfectly into the catagory :D
 They also told us about body shapes and how you can be various body shapes such as Pear Shaped or Hour Glass figure.
It was a very enjoyable talk and I thought it was really helpful!

-Steph H
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Geography Project :D

We have been assigned a project in Geography class. The majority of the class are in groups of 3. I am with Orlaigh and Oriana :) Were off to 6 different countries. I am heading to Kazakhstan and Cuba. We get €12,000 for the year to spend money in our countries. When we book our flights, the price is taken out of our €12,000 :( When I first looked up flights to Kazakhstan they were coming up to €5,000, which was way too expensive. I had to get a flight to Moscow in Russia and then get a train down to Kazakhstan. This only cost me a little over €300 which was really really cheap :D So its all good :) I still havent done much on Cuba yet as I am focusing on Kazakhstan until I get all the info I need :)

                

How amazingly gorgeous does that look D:
I wanna go :(


Cuba also looks spectacular. The landscape is very foresty but it really looks nice :)



I hope to have more done on my Geography project by the next time I blog :)
-Steph H
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Mini Company visit from Orla

On Monday the 4th, Orla from the Enterprise Board came to visit the TY's. When she came she told us to tell the other TY's about our Mini Company Project. There were some really awesome ideas such as the group "Knot a problem". They are making a little pin like thing which can take out knots.
Our group, Me, Saidhbh, Grace, Róisín and Ciara are designing a plug like stopper which will reseal cans. We got the idea because cans are alot cheaper but it sucks because you cant reseal them :/ so we decided to make a reseal-plug. Our group is called "Can-Do" :))
All is going well so far. We are working on our design and we are handing out surveys to other people in the school and also outside school so we can get different opinions and get a rough idea if people would be interested in buying our product.
Were all really excited because at the talk, Orla said that our product was exactly what they would be looking for in the competition and its also a solution to a problem - A resealable can.

:D
-Steph H
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BT Young Scientist

We have been working away at various projects since we have been back at school. One is the BT Young Scientist project. Im in a group with Kate & Aoife :) Were testing C-elegans which are a type of worm, and have a very short lifespan so they are used in labs for testing ageing. We are adding different types of antioxidants to these worms to see if antioxidants can actually make you live longer. We may discover the secret to eternal youth ;DD 
We went to NUI Maynooth where we are getting help with our project and we are allowed to use their lab and facilities there whenever we need too. We also have read ALOT of articles on the C-elegans and how long they live and various other facts that we need to know for our project :)
We also had to write a one page proposal for it which was hard work.
I reeeeally wanna get through to the BT young scientist because it looks like soo much fun when you get through D:

-Steph H
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Mini Company Talk in Naas :D

On Monday we went to theee Moat Theatre in Naas for our MiniCompany workshop :) Aload of schools from Kildare were there :D i saw loads of my friends from different schools which was awesomely :D We sat down and were introduced to a woman called Orla. She told us all about Mini Company and the standard that is needed to make a good business. She also showed us various short movies and made us get into our groups and told us to think of 50 ideas D: which was crazy. We only got about 20 xD The day went so fast :O and before we knew it we were getting ready to leave, except we got to go to McDonalds afterward ;) and all the other schools got on their buses and went back to school xD rage :L
 TY's are also getting ready to enter the BT Young Scientist. I had no idea about the amount of projects involved in TY =.= Its tiring, but funnnn :) For the young scientist we have to write a one page proposal =.= this determinds whether we get in or not. Hopefully we do :) Cos it looks like so much fun D:

Steph H
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