Aoife and I are doing a science project for sci-fest. We originally applied for the BT young scientist but sadly did not make the cut so we are now doing it for sci-fest. We have always been told by our parents and grandparents and so on that texting is so bad for your education, Aoife and I were both victims of this silly harassment from our parents so we decided to see if they were right, to see if texting really has affected the English language.
To prove this theory we must test students and adults of all ages, we must ask them to text a set message as they usually would an then also write out that same set message in their best english possible, so far we have tested students in N.K.E.T.S and Scoil Naomh Bríd both in celbridge, we have also tested TY students from our school and will be testing students in Lucan Community College and Maynooth Post Primary this coming Thursday. We Have sent emails and letters to many other schools asking for permision but these schools are slow to reply so our project has taken off to a slow start.
We are both very excited about our project and hope that we go on to suceed in the sci-fest competition, this is also a learning experience for us and we have discussed this with each other already. I feel much more mature and confident after going to these schools, writing letters and emails and also speaking to principals and students and also teachers.
We have also been in contact with many other people for help with our project we were very excited when we were in contact with the minister for education Jan O'Sullivan. We were in contact over email and she was very helpful with our project and we appreciated her help so greatly. We were also in contact with her over twitter and got a follow back from her. We made a twitter account for our science project to contact Jan and to get publicity. (@txtg8) FOLLOW US:)))
