President of Ireland, Catherine Connolly, will open this year's Stripe Young Scientist and Technology Exhibition.
Of the 550 projects, 23 are from Galway - with eleven local schools represented at the annual competition at Dublin's RDS.
More than 1 thousand students will compete for more than 200 prizes between now and Saturday, with the exhibition open to the public tomorrow.
From unpickable locks with magnets to the hopes and failures of the free hot meals programme - this year's batch of Galway young scientists are covering quite the range of research themes.
Coláiste Muire Máthair in the city has a whopping six projects going forward - on topics such as AI, female representation in science books and the driver theory test.
While the other county schools heading to Dublin for the competition are Clarin College Athenry, Dunmore Community School, Portumna Community School and Coláiste Ghobnait on Inis Oírr.
