SciFest DkIT St. Vincent`s takes Top Prize

Community Sports Leadership
Charity Presentation.
The 3rd year Community Sports Leadership
group have once again surpassed expectations
in their Sports development module by raising
€9570 for charity/beneficiaries. The money was
raised by, the waxing of legs, sponsored cycles,
bucket collections and the Kiss a pig competition.
Since this module began in 2005 students on the
course have now donated €60,070 to local and
national charities.
Pictured here are this year’s students with Course
Tutor, David Cranny. More Inside.
SciFest DkIT
St. Vincent’s takes Top Prize
Michaela Begley, St. Vincent’s
Secondary School, Dundalk,
over-all winner of the Science & Engineering SciFest
North East Finals held at DkIT on Wednesday 6th May
2009 with Dr. Breda Brennan Head of Department of
Applied Sciences
SciFest is a local one-day science fair held in third level colleges and open to all second level students. A SciFest fair includes a competition and exhibition of projects, a selection of
science talks, science demonstrations in the college laboratories and a prize-giving ceremony. SciFest aims to encourage a
love of science through an investigative approach to learning
and to provide an opportunity for students to display their scientific discoveries.
SciFest is jointly funded by Intel and Discover Science and Engineering and is supported by a number of other partners. The
project thus creates a valuable link between the second and
third level education sectors and between education and industry.
See all the photos and details on inside.
EURO SKILLS COMPETITION
Staff members Simon O'Neill and Frank Maguire with Stephen Brady, a phase six
plumbing student was awarded a bronze medal at the first Euro Skills Competition
that was held last year in Rotterdam.
Staff from the Engineering Trades who attended the event.
DkIT to make study visit to Israel at the invitation
of the Israeli Ambassador.
Dr Zion Evonry, The Israeli Ambassador to Ireland visited Dundalk IT today to look at how DkIT
supports Enterprise Development in the region. Dr. Evonry met with senior staff at DkIT and
engaged in discussions around the stimulation and support of small and medium enterprises
(SMEs).
While visiting the Institute, Dr Evonry extended a personal invitation to DkIT President and
staff to make a study visit to his homeland to look at the higher education sector and Israel’s
model for incubating SMEs. Dr Evonry who took up his position as Ambassador to Ireland in
2006, discussed the many similarities between Israel in Ireland, most particularly, how the historically largely agricultural Israeli state has now transformed itself into a high tech and highly
developed economy, the equal of many EU states.
Previous to his appointment as Ambassador to Ireland, Dr Evonry served as the Israeli
Consul General in the United States, and most recently as Head of the Policy and Planning
Bureau in the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Dundalk Credit Union Student
Innovation Fund
Encouraging students to look at starting a business is all well and good,
however, being able to provide some seed capital or
financial assistance to promising projects would fill a component that has been missing from the
programme up to now.
StudentEnterprise@DkIT in Association with Dundalk Credit Union developed a Business
Innovation Fund valued at €15,000. Successful projects will receive a voucher of €600 (or exceptionally €1000) for prototyping, market research, etc.
Applications are now invited. The closing date for this months fund application is May 29th with
the recipient of the award made known afterwards. The fund is open to ALL undergraduate &
post-graduate students from all Schools at DkIT.
Simply go to the www.studententerprisedkit.ie and find out more details there.
BA Hons. Community Development Students
with their course tutor Kevin Howard
Back row: Donnacha McSorley, Tinu Achoya, Margaret Clarke, Beth McKenna, Adrienne Doyle,
Maeve Montgomery, Lorraine Kearney
Middle row, Bernardine Quinn, Catriona Carragher, Buckola Ishola, .
Front: Kevin Howard, Erin O’Connor
The Age of Stupid
Screening: 28th May; DkIT, Dundalk,
as listed…
The Age of Stupid is a 90-minute film about climate change, set in the future, with Oscar
nominated Pete Postlethwaite (In The Name of the Father, Brassed Off) stars as a man living
alone in the devasted world of 2055, looking back at “archive” footage from 2007 and asking:
why didn’t we stop climate change when we had the chance?
Urgent Issue
Time is running out to prevent runaway climate change from a scientific and a human
perspective. The only way we can rapidly decrease global climate change is a binding
international treaty. The world’s governments must finalise the successor to Kyoto Treaty at the
UN climate summit in Copenhagen in December 2009. This is the last opportunity to get a deal in
place within the timescale necessary to stop catastrophe.
It is a huge privilege as well as an enormous responsibility to be alive today as we are the people
that will succeed or fail.
See the film then Save the World…
There are millions of different solutions to climate change and there is a role for everyone:
1. Spread the Word.
2. Start cutting personal and community emissions.
3. Campaign to pressurise our politicians.
But don’t delay, START NOW…
SciFest At DkIT
St. Vincents Dundalk takes Top Prize
Congratulations to Michaela Begley and to her teacher Helen Daly from St
Vincent’s, Secondary School Dundalk who took First Prize in the Junior Technology
section and was judged over all winner at the Science & Engineering SciFest North
East Finals held at DkIT on Wednesday 6th May. Michaela working alone on her
project “Turbo-Fan Jet Engines; Open rotor vs
conventional” impressed the Judges most.
Michaela constructed, a rig for testing the mechanical thrust developed by a turbofan assembly. She
demonstrated to the judges that she
understood fully how it operated and what the
individual parts were doing. She successfully made
measurements demonstrating the amount of trust
developed by each engine and that.
Michaela Begley, St. Vincent’s Secondary School,
Dundalk over-all winner of the Science &
Engineering SciFest North East Finals held at DkIT
on Wednesday 6th May 2009 with Dr. Breda Brennan Head of Department of Applied Sciences at
Cool Penguins
Congratulations to Alannah
McCartney and Aoife Mahon,
and their teacher Helen Daly,
St. Vincents Secondary School
Dundalk who won the over-all
“Discover Sensors Award” for
their project “Cool Penguins”.
In this project they successfully
demonstrated the heat benefits
of penguins huddling in the
south pole regions, by getting
their fellow students to huddle
in the school yard and measuring the increased temperatures
developed in the huddle from
the outside to the core group.
Having Fun
Annie Mc Bride, Maeve
Jennings, Sarah-Kate
Kellett, Kate Muckian, and
Cliodhna Morgan from St
Vincents,
Dundalk
enjoying themselves at
the
Science
&
Engineering North East
SciFeast finals held in
DkIT Multipurpose Centre
on Wednesday 6th May.
Anxious smiles from St. Vincent’s Girls
St. Vincent’s girls Elizabeth Irwin, Eimear Keenan, Katie Mc Donnell, Fionnuala
McCourt, Cherise Mc Caughley and Michaela Begley (over all winner) await
anxiously the arrival of the Judges at the North East Science & Engineering
Alex Kenny-Fagan, De La Salle
Congratulations to Alex Kenny-Fagan, De La Salle College Dundalk, 2nd year and
his teacher Edel Nolan who won Individual Intermediate all projects category. Alex
project was ‘To investigate if the Government health warnings on cigarette boxes
have any effect’. He found that they made no effective difference on his sample of
smokers surveyed. Alex is seen here with Siobhan Murphy Pharmaceutical Ireland
and Mr. Gerry McTaggart Acting Head of the Department of Nursing, Health
Studies, Midwifery and Applied Sciences at DkIT.
Dundalk
Grammar
School
Cillian Fearon &
John Mc Garry
attending the
SciFest
The SciFest
The SciFest is a local one-day Science Fair held in Institutes of Technology through
out Ireland and is open to all second level students of all ages. What is really
attractive about SciFest is that being a local one-day event it involves minimal costs
to parents.
It includes an exhibition of competing projects produced by the students. It includes
a selection of science talks and a prize-giving ceremony. It is now a national event
which aims to encourage a love of science and provide an opportunity for students
to display their scientific discoveries. Almost 300 students visited DkIT on 6th May to
display their projects from schools in Louth, Meath, Cavan, Monaghan and Armagh.
SciFest has grown out of the need because many good projects were turned down
at the annual Young Scientist and Technology Exhibition due to the vast numbers of
applicants. The inaugural SciFest was held in the Institute of Technology, Tallaght,
Dublin, in 2006. Scifest initially aimed at providing a forum for Dublin based
students to present their projects. In May 2008 SciFest went nation wide with DkIT
becoming involved.
Scifest is jointly funded by Intel, Abbott, BT, Discover Science and Engineering and
a number of other Industrial Partners. Thus Scifest creates a valuable three way
link between the second and third level education and the industrial sectors.
What was particularly exciting about the SciFest was the wide range of projects
presented. Topics investigated were as varied as you can get, such as “Turbo-fan
jet engine: Open rotor vs conventional”, “A study on how music tempo influences
the speed in which one drives”, “Teenagers knowledge and opinion about HPV and
vaccination”, “A Mobile Kettle”, “Bugs are Best” and “The effect of Flaxseed on
blood cholesterol Concentration” to name but a few.
On the day, the Multipurpose Centre buzzed with many students trying to catch a
judge’s ear, and a large number of lecturers from science, engineering, nursing and
humanities enlarged the judging panel with their comments, questions and advice.
The most enjoyable part of the day for the contestants was the many people who
dropped in and asked questions and made suggestions, most of whom weren’t
judges: thank you to one and all!
Thanks to our very generous sponsors in these difficult times, 12 groups or
individuals prizes were won, with the overall winner of the Intel Best Project going
to – Michaela Begley, St. Vincent’s Secondary School Dundalk, 1st year. Teacher
Helen Daly. For her Project on ‘Turbo-fan jet engine: Open rotor vs. conventional’.
Abbot Runner Up Best Project –went to Aisling McEntegart, St. Louis Secondary
School Carrickmacross, TY, Teacher Sinead Carolan, ‘A study on how music tempo
influences the speed in which one drives’.
BT Best Communicator Award –went to Jenna McDonagh, Calantha Torde and
Mary Dempsey, St. Aidans Comprehensive Cootehill, 5th year. Teacher Joanne
Corbett. ‘Teenagers’ knowledge and opinion about HPV and vaccination.’
Discover Sensors Award – Alannah McCartney and Aoife Mahon, St. Vincents
Secondary School Dundalk, 2nd year, Teacher Helen Daly. ‘Cool Penguins’.
The other winners were:
Category
Senior – all project categories
Individual
Group
Intermediate –
all project categories
Individual
Group
Junior – Physical Sciences
Junior – Life
Sciences
Junior - Technology
Individual or
Group
Individual
Group
Individual or
Group
Winner
Anna Tomalczyk, Virginia College, 5th year, Teacher Raymond Tynan. ‘Mobile Kettle’.
Claire Quigley and Vanessa Flack, Our Lady’s Secondary
School Castleblaney, 5th year, Teacher Paul Lonergan. ‘Can
changing the albedo of urban surfaces reduce global warming and thus lower carbon dioxide emissions’.
Aisling McEntegart, St. Louis Secondary School Carrickmacross, TY, Teacher Sinead Carolan,
‘A study on how music tempo influences the speed in which
one drives’.
Eimear Lappin, Emma Carroll and Martin Lurry, St. Patrick’s
High School Keady, 2nd year, Teacher Michelle Earley. ‘The
effect of flaxseed on blood cholesterol concentration’.
Colm Briody and James O’ Connell, Virginia College,
Teacher Emer Lennon. ‘From Waste to Warmth’.
Alex Kenny-Fagan, De La Salle College Dundalk, 2nd year,
Teacher Edel Nolan. ‘To investigate if the Government
health warnings on cigarette boxes have any effect’.
Fiona Hurson and Orla Deery, Largy College Clones, 2nd
year, Teacher Shane Lynch. ‘Bugs are Best’.
Michaela Begley, St. Vincent’s Secondary School Dundalk,
1st year. Teacher Helen Daly.
‘Turbo-fan jet engine: Open rotor vs. conventional’.
Despite the popularity of Science Projects in many schools today, those going on to
do Science in third level have declined in recent years, despite the related industrial
sectors being key drivers of economic success. The undermining aim of the SciFest
Exhibition is to attract more young people to science by making it more exciting,
more accessible and something that can be fun. What took place in DkIT Multipurpose Centre clearly demonstrated that this goal was definitely met.
Dundalk students save the world
from
Alien
Invasion
Third Year Multimedia B.A. Degree students from Dundalk intend to save the world from attack
by the evil Zutarian Empire. Good news for the good people of North Louth that they can. Before
you run for the panic button, you must realise that it is all part of a clever new interactive game
made by the students themselves. It is all part of Project Funky Town, an exciting new interactive
project that has been developed over the last six months.
The annual exhibition in the Carroll’s Building showcasing 2nd, 3rd and 4th year Multimedia
Products under the banner of FíS. The student’s plan for this exhibition for three years, with a
build up of learning the applications and knowledge, to implementing.
This years projects from Film and Video Production,
Multimedia and Games students will be on show
Wednesday 3rd June 6pm – 9pm and Thursday 4th
June at 11am – 8pm 2009 and Admission is Free. The
open event will appeal to all ages from nine to ninety
with an interest in design, technology or games.
Rebecca Graham, Bridget Purtill and Stephen Taaffe
are the three students involved with the Project Funky
town. After your visit to the Demonstration leave a comment at the following
E-mail: projectfunkytown@gmail.com
Our project is designed to be entertaining. We aim to have a fun and quirky game with an
uncommon theme and interesting controls. The story of the game involves you, the protagonist,
trying to thwart the evil alien Zutarian Empire’s plan is to make everyone on earth depressed.
But with the help of the friendly alien called Ike and a tentacle creature called Krabid you help the
populace - by providing hugs, high fives and fist bumps to cheer them up and bring them out of
depression. Along the way you will be confronted with horrid alien creatures trying to stop you
from your mission. Thankfully you have various ways to fight back with the help of a karate chop
and even a giant robot.
The controls are the unique part.
Instead of
conventional controls like an arcade or games
console – you use an interactive glove for the three
hand movements (high fives and fist bumps and
karate chop) and a huggable plushie named Krabid
that is attached to the player at the beginning of the
game. When prompted on-screen the player will hug
Krabid and make a score. The karate chop is for
DKIT Annual Exhibition by DKIT fighting off enemy Aliens.
students is at the Carroll's Building The game is marketed towards the 10 -14 year old
Dublin Road, Dundalk, Wednesday 3rd age group, so with the opportunity to try out the
and Thursday 4th June 2009
prototype, you’ll have to come along and try it for
For Press Enquiries call Bridget Purtill yourself and save the world from the evil Zutarian
Empire.
on 087 773 6203
Bridget McManus, Secretary General of Department of Education and Science
visited
DkIT
recently
to
share
her
thoughts
on
‘The Future of Higher Education’.
In her talk Ms McManus ,pictured here with Subash Khanal of DkIt Students’ Union, spoke of
the challenge that faces Ireland in the next few years and the role of higher education. She suggests that higher education is critical to ongoing economic development but that education also
has a wider social and cultural role.
She sees the big challenge facing us as how to prioritise and how to focus on critical issues such
as how we can turn innovation and ideas into long term economic growth.
The Secretary General believes that local initiatives, involving the relevant agencies offer the best
possible response to meeting skills and educational needs. She suggested that real engagement
between higher education and local industry could enable ideas, knowledge and research to be
translated in economic and social well – being.
On the question for purpose, she suggested that by focusing on:
- What we do well
- What we cannot do
Organisations can identify priorities for action. She also suggested asking ‘How is the way we do
our business relevant to the times we live in?’
You can hear a podcast of her talk on DkIT Talk at http://ww2.dkit.ie/about_dkit/podcasts
Early Perspectives
Pat Malone
Historical Editor Seamus Bellew
In this second part, Pat recalls how the turnip fields became the RTC, over to Pat …
Conception
In 1965 the idea of the RTC.s was conceived by the Chief Inspector, Technical Instruction Branch
(T.I.B.) in Dept. of Education (not Science at that time). A steering committee was set up and
they published their report in 1967. At first the plan was to build eight colleges but in time this was
changed to nine. To this man, Michael O’Flanagan (R.I.P.) we owe it all. The original colleges
around the country all looked alike and could be easily identified no matter what part of the country you might come across one.
The College design came from Finland and was relatively inexpensive to build. The internal layout is flexible as we could all bear witness to every summer and well into the autumn. One of my
reliable sources, who knows a lot about these things, maintains that its design was ideal as an
Educational Establishment, where needs were constantly changing. For many years it was forbidden to interfere with the external walls as the slabs were out of production. These slabs were
specially designed for the RTCs.
Birth
Right enough, there it was. Earth moving equipment was building up mounds of clay where turnips were previously growing. I stopped complaining and spent more time dreaming. I paid regular visits to this shrine, paid homage to its progress! Trucks were back and forward and cranes
were lifting large concrete pillars and horizontals from them and assembling them in an orderly
fashion. A complete skeleton of a building was in place and in time concrete floors and flat roofs
were poured. These were followed by large pebble dashed slabs to form the outer skin of the
building. Further activity was now out of sight; my curiosity took me to the various openings to observe progress. Walls were literally growing out of the floors. These block layers must have been
paid on the lump.
The Summer holidays were nearly over. The end of August 1970 revealed massive progress and
the work was nearing completion. It was time to move in before they changed their minds. Off to
the builder’s hut where I met who appeared to be the foreman? My intention was to get the
building rubble removed and the place cleaned up for occupation. The foreman informed me that
he did not have a man available but if I wished to take the job on myself that he could supply me
with a shovel, sweeping brush and wheelbarrow. These were the days before strict on site
insurance and hardhat areas. I shovelled, swept and wheeled all day and transformed the pile of
rubbish into a lovely floor space. Later that evening a builder came around and started filling the
boltholes in the pillars with cement. As he worked his way up higher and higher he built up a
makeshift platform from an old table and wooden boxes. There was an almighty crash and when I
looked around, here was this poor guy lying face down on the floor, out cold.
My God is he dead? What a start the first day in. I found the foreman in the hut, an ambulance
was called and he was carted away. The next day the foreman told me that he was ok but would I
sign this form as a witness to his accident. I agreed as long as there no mention about what he
was standing on.
He returned to work a short time later and he was totally grateful to me and took me to the hut for
tea on occasions. He had a peculiar limp but this was not from the fall as he fell on his head. I
learned at a later stage that his nickname was “thorn in the foot”.
In the meantime Peter McDonnell was moving his electrical section in next door to me and John
Minogue was next to him. Everybody was so busy and understaffed that we did not have time to
speak to each other. I was on my own so S. V. Duffy rowed in to help me out. A local man and
his small truck were hired and the three of us worked hard to move my gear from Chapel St, Vincent still comes into DKIT to supervise exams. John Minogue assigned Paddy Mallon to secure
my store. During that time friendships were created that lasted right up to the time of their deaths.
There was a small workshop off the main floor space. This was still occupied by the plumbers as
a store. Men were coming and going there all day, mostly carrying hand washbasins and rolls of
lead. All hell broke loose when the plumbing foreman discovered that the men doing all the carrying were not his. A lot of stuff had gone missing.
First One In
On a number of occasions I heard discussions as to who was the first one into the college. It
matters little, as long as we got in. I have my own theory about it and it comes from a story that
the late Patsy Curran (R.I.P.) told me at his retirement party. I always saw Patsy as a quite
easygoing fellow with big boots. Patsy worked as a plumbers mate during the building of the
college around 1969. His story goes that he was up on a high platform in the main foyer at the
Hoey’s Lane side of the building. His job was to lag the heating pipes up at ceiling height.
The only phone within the building was sitting on a cement covered wooden box attached to a
cable from the ceiling. The phone rang, Patsy climbed down slowly. The phone rang off before he
got to it. Back up to work. The phone rang once more. Again it rang off before he got there. I
won’t be caught a third time he said, so he stood by the phone. It rang. He lifted the receiver. The
voice at the other end said “is Dr McDonagh there” Ah said Patsy, you have the wrong number,
the County Hospital is just down the road and left the receiver down. As Patsy climbed the ladder
again he thought to himself “Doctor” they must be expecting a lot of sick people in here. On
completion of the plumbing contract Patsy took up employment with the RTC.
(To be continued …)
Presentation by 3rd Year Community and Sports Leadership students to various charities in the Whitaker
Theatre on Thursday May 7th
The 3rd year Community Sports Leadership group have once again surpassed expectations as part of their Sports development module by raising €9570 for charity/
beneficiaries. The money was raised by, the waxing of legs, sponsored cycles,
bucket collections and the Kiss a pig competition.
Since this module began in 2005 students on the course have now donated
€60,070 to local and national charities.
Cheques were presented to the following charities.
Children’s University Hospital, Temple Street
Canteen Ireland
The Cross Cause Charity
St Theresa’s Special Olympic Club Dundalk
Friends of Cavan Oncology Unit
St John of Gods
Habitat for Humanity
St Brigid’s School
Ardee Hospice
Sudden Adult Death Syndrome
CSL students Lorainne Finlay and Bridin Rodgers presents a cheque to Archie Hinfey
,representing St. Brigids School
CSL student Mary Beth Wynne presents a cheque to Louise Mulligan ,representing Habitat.
CSL student Lynda Woods to Conor Hughes,Blackrock for a special building programme in Ghana
CSL student Emma presents a cheque to Clare Smith,representing Cavan Oncology Unit
Valene Mc Mullan presents a cheque to Teresa Mc Donald and Alicia Mc Cabe representing
Ardee Hospice Homecare
CSL students Lynda Woods and Eamonn O’Callaghan presents a cheque for the Mater Hospital House
Foundation
CSL students Jennifer Maguire and Edel Branigan with a cheque for Temple Street Children’s Hospital
CSL student Pat Donaghy presents a cheque to Mary D’Arcy ,representing St.Teresa’s Special
Olympics Dundalk
CSL student Amy Fitzpatrick presents a cheque to Evelynn Griffith ,representing Canteen Ireland ‘Young
People Cancer Support Group
‘BUCKLE UP’ IT’S THE
MOVIE REVIEW
I went to the advanced screening of Star Trek last week, having won the tickets online. This is my short
review for all you readers out there.
If you are a fan of Star Trek, like myself, you will give this movie a very solid
9 out of 10, if not the full 10. It is absolutely mind-blowing, and affects you in
a really special way due to your familiarity with the ship, the crew, the music.
Everything is familiar, yet different. It's like remembering the taste of a sweet
you last ate when you were a kid.
There are plenty of references to other stuff in the Star Trek universe, and
enough "in jokes" to keep hardcore fans occupied for days.
I was frankly nervous when I heard they were going to rely on that old sci-fi
script writer "get out of jail free card", the time travel/temporal anomaly story.
However, they've used it brilliantly. Not only have they allowed us to see
things that we've
only ever heard of from characters in the series, they've altered everything
enough to make it fresh and exciting again. They've also cleverly created an
alternative timeline (much like recent 'Bond' and 'Batman' reboots) which basically writes the
producers a new artistic license to do whatever they want - and boy do they exercise the right! Anyone
can die at any time - adding a suspense element you usually don't get in prequels because you kinda
know which characters will survive.
The movie has other surprises too - references to modern culture are there, and little nods to currently
popular TV si-fi exist. However, only die-hard fans will spot these.
The actors all do a fine job playing their parts, without attempting
to impersonate the original actors too much. My hat is off to Karl
Urban (he of 'Lord of The Rings' and 'Doom' fame). He nails the
Dr. McCoy part brilliantly, and I'm sure DeForest
Kelley would have been proud of him.
The ship, the Enterprise, looks great. You get a sense of size and
proportion never present in the original series and there are some
fantastic space battle scenes involving her. My most favourite visual effect in the whole movie was a shot of the Enterprise rising
slowly out of the rings of Saturn with lens flare effects galore —
I nearly cried!
I'd definitely need to see the movie again before saying any more, and
fully intend to do just that. Oh, little tip, if you take your girlfriend/wife to
this movie, let her drool over Kirk, Spock, McCoy and company as much
as she wants - just ignore her
if she tries to get you to explain alternative timelines. It is now my professional opinions that women simply cannot understand time travel. I pity
the fool who tries as hard as I did to explain the concept - and for God's
sake don't even mention
"paradox"!
Conclusion? Go see this movie! (girlfriend optional)
Paul Scollon. (2009)
The Reel Africa Film Festival is a free-of-charge two-day film festival featuring a
selection of recent African cinema and Irish-made documentaries on African
themes. This is the second year the festival has run. It has been funded by
Irish Aid as part of the nationwide schedule of events to mark Africa Day on
May 25th 2009.
This festival will allow students of film nationwide, along with interested members of
the public to experience African film along with Irish-made documentaries about
Africa, in an intimate setting, with the opportunity to meet directors and partake in
seminars & discussions about their work.
The Reel Africa Film Festival is taking place in Dundalk Institute of Technology on
May 25th and 26th. DKIT campus is the ideal location for such a festival, with
numerous venues available for film screenings. In recent years, the campus has
been extended and boasts two Black Box Theatres along with numerous state of
the art lecturing theatres in which screenings, seminars and discussions will take
place. Excellent transport links also exist to Dundalk via rail & road and the college
is only a 40 minute drive from Dublin airport via the M1.
In conjunction with the Reel Africa Film Festival, DKIT are proud to announce
details of a student short film competition.
Students are required to produce a 60-second short exploring their perceptions of
Africa based on the title ‘My Reel Africa’. The competition is open to any genre of
short, e.g., fiction, documentary, animation, experimental video, etc.
The top ten films as chosen by the selection panel will be screened during the
festival, to be held in Dundalk Institute of Technology on May 25th & 26th 2009.
1st prize: €500
2nd prize: €300
3rd prize: €200
Entries should be submitted on DVD only to:
Sarah McCann, Festival Director, The Reel Africa Film Festival, Dept. of
Humanities, DKIT, Dundalk, Co. Louth.
For more information please contact Sarah McCann, Festival Director, at
sarah.mccann@dkit.ie and visit the website at http://reelafrica.dkit.ie/