Best of luck to Tadhg O’Brien 1st yr, taking part in the 2024 Bebras Challenge National Final in Maynooth University on Saturday! Scoring extremely well in the first round of the computational thinking challenge to secure his spot in the final. 🦫🧑🏻‍💻 Irish Computer Society Maynooth University

Great start to Computer Science Week at Mercy Mounthawk with 1st yr students Marcel & Fionn creating a Reading Range Guitar. By detecting the value of the distance between the ultrasonic sensor and the baffle, the buzzer then emits different tones Micro:bit Educational Foundation ELECFREAKS 🎸👨🏻‍💻

Excellent work promotion coding and computer science #compsci Oide Computer Science Micro:bit Educational Foundation SG Education

First day of our 2nd year coding Battle Bot tournament was very successful! Final rounds at the end of the week 🥊🤖 ELECFREAKS Micro:bit Educational Foundation Mercy Mounthawk @JCTSteAm thanks to Stu Lowe for the inspiration 😁

Some revision of the circulatory system with 3rd year science students 🫀👩🏼‍🔬 JCScience.ie Mercy Mounthawk

Congratulations to 6th year student Sean who worked very hard on his design skills over the summer. He created over 100 projects on Canva and earned a certificate for his hard work. Well done Sean! 👏🏼 Canva Mercy Mounthawk 🎨👨🏼‍💻

The robotics team are back in action, looking forward to a busy year ahead! 😁🤖 Mercy Mounthawk FIRST LEGO League UK and Ireland

Excellent first few weeks of makerspace! 50 students stayed after school today to work on their water bottle rockets 🚀 we can’t wait for the launch next week!! 👏🏼

We are excited that 2 of our students, Niamh Rice and Holly O'Brien, have qualified for the Dublin Junk Kouture Final at the RDS on Tuesday, October 1st, with their outstanding outfit, "Dairy Girls." This is a significant achievement for the school. Good luck, girls!

Congratulations to Bao, Benedek and Kai for getting top marks in Round 1 of the 38th Maths Olympiad. They are currently partaking in the Maths enrichment programme in UCC with the hope of making the Irish Maths Olympiad team. STEAMMounthawk

Well done to this group of talented makerspace students who spent 2 weeks building their first infento build! They built a fully electric mini motorbike that can go up to 13mph 👏🏼 🏍 Great work, we can't wait to see what they build next!!

We had a great chat with wildlife biologist Ciara Dolan today! We discussed all things marine life and the impact we are having on the planet 🌍🌊🐠 Mercy Mounthawk

On Saturday our student council environment group came to school to learn how to coppice trees and build a dead hedge. The students worked with Ian McGregor from Gortbrac Organic Farm as part of their ‘Sustownability’ project which began this year and will run for three years.

Congratulations to Culann Dowling 3rd year, Rory O’Flaherty & Andrei Turcan 5th year on getting through to the final of BD STEMSTARS. Culann is entering the Software category and Rory & Andrei are entering the Product category. Well done all 🎉👏🏼 BD #BDSTEMStars

Gold, Sliver Bronze all round for us at the Best of Ireland Secondary School Awards @boiasecondaryschoolawards #boai25

Mounthawk Masterminds- TU Shannon Regional Champions 🎉🏆 and winners of the Robot Competition. Off to the all Irelands in April 👏🏼🤖@tus_ie @flluk CreativeHUT Ireland @mmhmasterminds

Congratulations to all the students representing Mercy Mounthawk today at the all Ireland Bebras computational thinking competition. Especially Benedek Hernold Csorba winning the 5th & 6th year competition. @mu_pact @steammounthawk

The FIRST® LEGO® League #SUBMERGED Ireland Runner's Up 🪸 The Mounthawk Masterminds 👏 From Mercy Secondary School Mounthawk in Kerry, the team narrowly missed our on the top prize but making themselves and their schools extremely proud! Find out more here -

Such a fantastic event, well done to all teams and all those who helped to make the day such a great experience for the kids. #STEAMedu

Congratulations to Ocean Devotion who won the junior water award at @ecounesco @mmhmasterminds @steammounthawk @youngenvironmentalistawards