Cork student uses prize money to save baby's life
A Cork student who won the Google Science Competition has used part of her prize money to save the life of a baby in Eastern Ukraine. Ciara Judge, Emer Hickey and Sophie Healy-Thow, who are all students at Kinsale Community School, are to be honoured by the President at a special reception at Áras an Uachtaráin this afternoon. The girls won the the 2013 BT Young Scientist of the Year Award, the 2014 Google Science Global Research Competition for their research on how to tackle the global food crisis and were named by Time Magazine as being among the "most influential teenagers in the world". Ciara Judge immediately donated €1,000 from the share of her prize money to Adi Roche's Chernobyl Children's Charity which allowed a 14 month old girl with a genetic heart defect undergo life saving surgery. Speaking to RedFM News Ciara says she's thrilled she was able to make a difference. Click the PLAY button to hear.
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