School Essay Competition
Each year to celebrate National DNA day, the Irish and the European Societies of Human Genetics runs a school Essay writing competition. More information is available on www.DNAday.eu
National DNA Day (April 25th) celebrates the successful completion of the Human Genome project in 2003 and the discovery of the DNA double helix in 1953.
The competition is open to all students aged 14-19 years of age.
2021 Competition Winners
We are delighted to announce the winners of the 2021 National DNA Day Schools Essay Writing Competition for their essays:
First prize (€500)
Miss Anna Smyth
St. Andrews College, Dublin
Second prize (€350)
Miss Leah Carew
St. Anne’s Secondary School, Tipperay
2022 Competition Details
The title for the 2022 National DNA Day schools Essay Writing Competition is: ‘How can DNA help us to discover ancient human history?’
More details can be found on www.DNAday.eu
Some resources might be helpful:
HUMAN PREHISTORY 101
Episode 1. Prologue
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mm-IxK1GrYE
Episode 2 . Out of (Eastern) Africa
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8183HPmA2_I
Episode 3. Weathering the Storm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T9Nw66RCMhg
Episode 4. Agriculture rocks our world
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IVHD9wGlbho
Episode 5. Epilogue
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-zRXHAo4-U
GENETICS101
Episode 1. What are genes?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ubq4eu_TDFc
Episode 2. What are SNPs?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tJjXpiWKMyA
Episode 3. Where do your genes come from?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Yg89GY61DE
Episode 4. What are phenotypes?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kLpr6t4-eLI
Episode 5. Why no Y?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QCm2x9OABI8
2022 Competition Entry Details
If you are a secondary school would like to receive information about the school essay competion (1 or two emails/year) please send your contact information (name, title, school postal and email address) to ishgsecretary@mater.ie
