Eskom Expo for Young Scientists International Science Fair (ISF)
The ISF is hosted each year in September at the Convention Centre at Emperors Palace in Kempton Park in South Africa and is an invaluable platform for young scientists to showcase their innovative ideas and research, fostering collaboration and learning among peers from around the world. A number of countries participate online. SciFest participated in Eskom for the first time in 2024 online and in 2025 participated in person.
| ISF 2026 |
| Student |
Aditya Surendran |
| School |
Athlone Community College, Athlone, Co. Westmeath |
| Teacher |
Aishling Gillen |
| Project |
Reducing the Communication Cost Sub-Quadratically of Byzantine Fault Tolerant Consensus with DAG Dissemination and Hierarchical BLS Aggregation |
| Awards |
GOLD Medal in the Computer Sciences and Software Development |
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Best in Category – Senior Award
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| Student |
Srinidhi Karthik |
| School |
Athlone Community College, Athlone, Co. Westmeath |
| Teacher |
Gavin Beirne |
| Project |
A Multi-Objective Framework for Predictive Neural Subgraph Discovery in Brain Connectivity Networks
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| Award |
SILVER Medal in the Computer Sciences and Software Development Category |
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| ISF 2025 |
| Student |
Addison Carey |
| School |
Celbridge Community School, Maynooth Road, Celbridge, Co. Kildare |
| Teacher |
Zita Murphy |
| Project |
Advancing Post-Quantum Lattice-Based Cryptography by Developing Efficient Shortest Vector Problem Approaches |
| Award |
Gold Medal Award |
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| ISF 2024 |
| Student |
Maura Moore-McCune |
| School |
The King's Hospital School, Old Lucan Rd, Palmerstown, Dublin 20 |
Teacher
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Ciaran O'Connor |
| Project |
VIPMOD: Visually Impaired Person's Moving Object Detector |
Awards
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Best in Category Award |
| Gold Medal Award |
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| Student |
Kamaya Gogna |
| School |
St Joseph's Secondary School, Convent Lane, Rush, Co. Dublin
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| Teacher |
Danny Murray |
| Project |
A Continued Study on Using Machine Learning to Identify Radiolucencies on Panoramic Dental Radiographs |
| Award |
Silver Medal Award |