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04 Oct 2025

Congratulations: Longford student sweeps the boards with top project at SciFest in TUS, Athlone

Ronan Lyons triumphs with his project entitled CAPILL: Compliance Aid Promoting Independent Living Long-Term

Congratulations: Longford student sweeps the boards with top project at SciFest in TUS, Athlone

Lanesboro CC student Ronan Lyons is presented with the award for best Overall Project in SciFest 2025 by Professor Vincent Cunnane, President of TUS and Ms Sheila Porter, CEO of SciFest

Well done to all students who represented Lanesboro Community College at SciFest held in TUS, Athlone on April 9. 

The school is indeed very proud of each student who put so much work and effort into their projects. This effort was amply rewarded on the day with our students winning many of their categories.

Congratulations to Ronan Lyons who won Best Project Award for his project which was entitled CAPILL: Compliance Aid Promoting Independent Living Long-Term.

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Ronan also won every category which included Boston Scientific Medical Devices Award, Intel Technology Award and 1st Place Senior Technology Award.

Ronan now represents LCC at the National SciFest finals to be held in Dublin next November.

Well done also to Joice Jiju and Sebastian Cummins who won the Boston Scientific Medical Devices Runner- Up Award for their project entitled Awar: Advance Warning Auditory Response.

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A fantastic achievement for our students and their teachers, they all are indeed great ambassadors for Lanesboro Community College.

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