Celebrating SciFest@TCPID 2026

What an incredibly special, joyful, magical day we had on Thursday May 28th at our annual SciFest@TCPID exhibition with the brilliant team from Abbott.

Thank you to the wonderful team of mentors who worked with our students to develop their projects over the past 5 weeks - Ronan Mac Donell, Patrick O'Rourke, Oonagh Hague, Dermot Turley, Catriona Webb, Lin Xu, Kate Peters, Leanne Murphy, Upama Ghosh, Martin Gordon, Marie Sheil and Catriona O'Reilly. Thank you to the unbelievably talented Kelly O'Sullivan for creating the beautiful artwork for all the project boards.

The biggest thank you to Rachelle Waters for managing this entire project over the past few months and matching the mentors so perfectly to each of our students.

Sheila Porter George Porter Hugo Rowsome and Aoife Wadd, we are so proud to be a part of your SciFest CLG programme.

Thank you to our Provost Linda Doyle for taking the time to come to our event and meet with our students.

Finally congratulations to our brilliant 11 students, Jack, Ava, Andrew, Alex, Aidan, Aaron, Niamh, Isabel, Alan, Makayla and Conor for all your hard work and for presenting your projects so well yesterday.

The event was so special and we can't wait to do it all again in May 2026.

A few quotes from our students about the experience of working with their Abbott mentors:

Dear Catriona, thank you so much for all your hard work and the effort to help me on my project. I really enjoyed your jokes and laughter while I was working with you. I am very grateful for all your support and guidance, and it was lovely to get to know you.

Dear Ronan, many thanks for working with me on the project and for your time. I am looking forward to showing everyone our project! Many thanks again Ronan and hopefully see you soon.

Paddy I would really like to thank you for all your help and support on our project. It was so much fun and we worked really well together as a team. I enjoyed our chats and getting to know one another. I was so lucky to have you as my Mentor. Thank you so much Paddy.

Thank you Martin for being kind and helpful. I liked working with you. I liked our conversations about The Rolling Stones, and sport. I hope Liverpool do well.Doing the project made me feel useful and happy. Thank you for taking the time to help out in TCPID.

Thank you Lin for all your help. You are great. You are so kind and gentle you help me so much with my project and you know how much I like Asian food. You make me very happy with your help and kindness.

Dear Oonagh, thanks for helping me with this make up project. I really appreciate the time you gave for you and me to bond. You are a really nice person and I really appreciate the giggles and chats. You have really nice fashion. I knew me and you would be a good team! Thank you to Marie and Rachelle for choosing Oonagh as my mentor.

See some of the highlights from SciFest@TCPID 2026 in the video below:.