The 2025 exhibition will proceed as a face to face event.  The event will take place from Wednesday 8 to Saturday 11 January, 2025.

The 2025 exhibition will return to the RDS

BTYSTE 2024 will take place from Wednesday the 9^th of January to Saturday the 11^th of January 2025.

The event will be face to face for 2025

Yes! If you cannot attend in person the students’ projects can be viewed via https://portal.btyoungscientist.com/ 

Yes tickets will be on sale for the event.

Details of bookings for school visits will be announced in September. 

Ticket costs are Students €10, Teachers €10, Adults €15, Family (2+2) €35, Concession and group booking rates are available. 

Luckily with most of our live shows, you will be able to watch them back whenever you like on the portal. 

Stage one (to 30 September) – Please enter via www.btyoungscientist.com.  Screening of all entries will take place as soon after closing date as possible.

Stage two (October tbc) – For those that that qualify you will be sent notification of the key dates and information needed for January.

Stage three (January) – Judging of top 550 projects will take place in person in the RDS from the 8th to 11th January 2025.

All projects will be displayed in person this year, so students should prepare a visual display board to use on their stand. Qualifying Students will also submit a 3 minute video that will act as their virtual “stand” on the BTYSTE portal. 

Judging will commence on Wednesday 8th January 2025 from 3.00 pm and will continue all day Thursday. Final judging will be completed on Friday morning. 

When a student confirms that they will exhibit a project, one of the available stand spaces will be allocated against that project. It is the teacher’s responsibility to check with students before the Christmas holidays to confirm that they are still planning to participate. If a project has to be withdrawn, please let us know immediately in writing to BTYSTE@btyoungscientist.com before 6th December 2024. Call 1800 924 362 from the Republic of Ireland or 0800 917 1297 from Northern Ireland. Failure to do so may lead to the disqualification of participation of the project in future years. 

There is no change in numbers this year, the number of projects that qualify will be a max of 550.

We have existing GDPR guidelines and place which will reviewed and enhanced, if necessary, over the coming months. There will be changes to some of the T&C’s associated with the exhibition and we will inform those that these changes effect in good time.

Yes, students can access the portal to view projects, sponsors stands and shows at https://portal.btyoungscientist.com/

We will be reviewing all child protection measures that we currently have in place for BTYSTE and will enhance those if necessary.

We are working on how best to do this in advance of the 2025 exhibition dates. How this looks and feels will be announced in due course, we want to make sure that we have the best exhibition possible and we need to take time and resource to plan this properly.

The deadline for student entries is the 27 September, teacher assessments must be completed by 5pm on 30 September 2024.

Students can enter a project as normal, in the five categories we have for the exhibition.  All the details are on our website www.btyoungscientist.com. The entry system will remain the same and is open to students at www.btyoungscientist.com.

No the project can be worked on at times convenient for you but remember to include all the work in your project diary.

Yes. Entry to the BT Young Scientist & Technology Exhibition 2025 is €20/£18 per student. Results of the project selection process will not be released until the entry fee has been paid. 

The Accommodation Grant Scheme (the ‘Grant Scheme’) is available to schools that are over 70 Km from the RDS, grants of €150/£135 payable to a school in respect of each individual pupil project entry and grants of €300/£270 payable to a school in respect of each group project entry, subject always to a maximum grant payment per school of €1,500/£1,350.  See the factfile for more details. 

Groups will consist of either two or three members, where possible in the same age group (Junior, Intermediate or Senior), who must be from the same school .

No the entry system remains the same and these can be accessed via our website www.btyoungscientist.com.

This should form part of your stand / display

You can search our past projects using keywords at https://btyoungscientist.com/past-projects/ to see if similar projects have been entered before. 

If you are between 12-19 in second level education, yes you can enter next year.

Yes and guidance on this for qualified projects will be send out when you are notified that you have qualified.  We hope to once again work with the Patents office so students can get free advice on patenting their projects.

Wi-Fi will be available throughout the exhibition hall.  

If during screening the judges believes that your project would represent another category more accurately, it will be transferred to the more suitable category. 

For a project to be accepted into the technology category the core of the project must be the use of technology in new or improved applications, enhanced efficiencies, new innovations or better ways to do things. The category could include things related to the internet, cybersecurity, communications, electronic systems, robotics, control technology, applications of technology, biotechnology, innovative developments to existing problems, machine learning, virtual and augmented reality, computing and automation. Students are also expected to understand the basic science behind the technology so that they can get the most from the project. 

For a project to be accepted into this category it must have a biological and/or ecological focus and investigate aspects of animal, human, microbial or plant biology. Typically, projects deal with the following areas of study: agriculture, anatomy, animal science, biochemistry, biodiversity, biotechnology, botany, conservation, disease, ecology, environmental science, enzymology, forestry, food science, genetics, horticulture, marine biology, medical science, metabolism, microbiology, molecular biology, nanotechnology, physiology, physiotherapy, plant science, sustainability or veterinary science. 

For a project to be accepted into this category it must be based on chemistry, physics, mathematics, applied mathematics, engineering, computer programming and language or electronics. Projects based on earth and space sciences such as meteorology, geophysics, geology, astronomy, advance materials and nanoscience are also eligible. 

For a project to be accepted into this category it must cover social and behavioural sciences, economic, geographical, psychological or sociological studies of human behaviour, attitudes and experience, social analysis of environmental factors, demography, learning or perception. Projects on consumer affairs, effects on society, social anthropology and political science, provided they involve the use of scientific methods, are also eligible. 

For a project to be accepted into this category it must incorporate the study of (attitudes and behaviour in relation to) health, mental health, nutrition, work, leisure, sport and exercise, living habits and wellbeing.  The study of culture, civil engagement, community, economic development, environmental quality, housing, skills, social connections, and quality of life and work will also be eligible. 

You can use the subheadings under the main five categories to help you decide which of the main categories you should enter. 

At the entry stage select the one you and your teacher deem the most suitable for you project based on the subcategories of the projects and if the judges feel it would be represented in a different category more accurately it may be moved during screening.

Yes

Yes,  tickets will be on sale for the event.

Yes! If you cannot attend in person the students’ projects can be viewed via https://portal.btyoungscientist.com/ 

Ticket costs are Students €10, Teachers €10, Adults €15, Family (2+2) €35, Concession and group booking rates are available. 

Luckily with most of our live shows, you will be able to watch them back whenever you like on the portal.

The deadline for Primary Science Fair will be in October 2024 – the final date will be announced in September. 

We will be looking at approx. 100 projects to enter this year and these should come from full class groups in an individual school.  If the school has a small community then one or more classes can do a project together as long as there are no more than 30 students involved.  Students should be from 3rd-6th class.

PSF judging will take place face to face in the RDS

No, individual classes will need to present their projects on site at the RDS. 

As we do each year, there will be a max of 30 students per project.

This class will present their project in person via posters or displays in their allocated stand area. 

PSF @ BTYSTE 2025 will take place on Thursday 9th of January and Friday the 10th of January 2025.

Projects can be entered under the one of the following four categories: Living Things, Materials, Environmental Awareness and Care, Energy and Forces