Back in March 2025 the CSO announced the winners of the John Hooper Statistical Poster Competition. We were delighted when they announced that one of our students were the winners of the second place prize. This is a great achievement as there are only three prizes over the two age categories.
Katie O'Kane who was awarded second prize for her entry entitled Fashion over Function: Do Polo Wraps cause more harm than good. This was an amazing result as there are only three prizes awarded in the competition.
Katie will be presented with her award at the CSO Awards Ceremony in Croke Park on Wednesday 15 October 2025. Katie will address the attendees with an account of her project.
The John Hooper Statistical Poster Competition is one of Ireland’s most respected and prestigious schools competitions. The competition is named after the first Director of Statistics of the Irish Free State and has become hugely popular with both students and teachers alike.
The competition provides an outstanding opportunity for students across the island of Ireland to showcase their data analytical and interpretation skills.
Participation in the John Hooper Statistical Poster Competition will improves students’ abilities to describe their environment with the help of statistics and to use statistics as a tool for making sense of daily life.
This is the third year students from the school entered this competition. The school has won an award each year they have entered a project.
Well done to both students for entering the competition in 2025 and their mentor John Sims.