Ciara Judge, Emer Hickey and Sophie Healy-Thowdans have only 16 years, yet they are the ones who won the Grand Prix World contest Google Science Fair.
While they were thousands around the world to have a World science competition Google Science Fair, they were only 15 in the final, including a French, William Rolland and Sensorwake. In the end, three young Irish 16 who have captivated the jury with their research on the use of certain bacteria in the fight against global hunger.
Sensitized to the food shortage in the world in 2011 during the famine in the Horn of Africa, the three girls had clicked “discovering nodules on the roots of peas from the mother of Emer” nodules containing a natural variety of rhizobia family diazotrophic bacteria.
After conducting a thorough study of these diazotrophic bacteria, Ciara Judge, Emer Hickey and Sophie Healy-Thowdans conducted a detailed statistical study of the impact of these bacteria on crops wheat, oats and barley with results showing an increase in crop germination up to 50% and barley yields higher than 74%, “An increase in cereal crops that would fight considerably against the problem of food poverty in the world and reduce the impact of agriculture on the environment by reducing fertilizer, “they explain.
This is how these Three young Irish women won the Grand Prize and the prize in the 15-16 years of Global Scientific Contest Google Science Fair, a plan with a ten-day trip in the Galapagos Islands offered by National Geographic prize, a scholarship Study 000 dollars from Google 50, and a visit to the scenes of the company Virgin Galactic.
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