Galway students are being encouraged to start working on their entries for the BT Young Scientist and Technology Exhibition.

Launch of BT Young Scientist.

Aspiring scientists, environmentalists, physicists, psychologists, even mechanics and musicians, now have an opportunity to turn their ideas into a potentially winning entry, which must be submitted by Monday 6 October.

Students from St Brendan's Community School in Birr helped announced details for the closing date for entries to BT Young Scientist and Technology Exhibition 2009 by supporting one of the many attractions to take place at the exhibition.

'The Globe of Death', a study of centrifugal forces, shows how an object travelling in a circular object behaves as if it is experiencing an outward force, the greater the speed and mass of the object the greater the centrifugal force.

Skilled performers on motorbikes will 'loop the loop' around the inside of a massive metal sphere at breakneck speed to demonstrate centrifugal forces in action, while an academic explains to the audience the physics involved and why the riders don't drop from the top of the globe.

The BT Young Scientist and Technology Exhibition will be held in the RDS, Dublin from 6 to 10 January.

For more information on the exhibition, log onto www.btyoungscientist.com or phone 1800-924362.

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