AILO 2010 Results

Mount Temple Comprehensive School on the Malahide Road, Dublin have retained the AILO individual trophy and won the team trophy in AILO 2010. Congratulations Mount Temple!

Just under 100 secondary school students from all over the Republic and Northern Ireland qualified for the CNGL All Ireland Linguistics Olympiad (AILO) final in DCU on Wednesday 24th March 2010.

Over 270 students from 20 schools took the first round in their own school in February 2010. Students who got a sufficient mark qualified for the final in DCU. CNGL allocated a tutor from the research centre to each school to help them learn how to tackle the linguistics problems.

Mount Temple, Team competition winners. Emma Carrigan, who also won the individual competition, is on the far left

Emma Carrigan from Mount Temple Comprehensive School, Dublin got first place in the individual round. Congrulations Emma on becoming the AILO All Ireland Individual Champion. Ellen Cameron from Antrim Grammar School got second place. Imogen Grumley Traynor from St Kilian's Deutsche Schule, Dublin got third place with fourth place going to Cormac Ó Mainnín from Ballincollig Community School, Cork. Emma, Ellen, Imogen and Cormac will be invited to respresent Ireland at the International Linguistics Olympiad (ILO) in Sweden 18-23 July 2010. Well done!

The 'TMT' team from Mount Temple won the Team competition and therefore become AILO All Ireland Team Champions. Well done Mount Temple for "doing the double". 23 teams took part in the team competition in the afternoon of 24th March. While the competition produced a clear winner, the next three teams could not be separated in second place: 'MCB1' and 'MCB3' from Methodist College Belfast and 'Linguinis' from Newtown College, Waterford.

We will be presenting the trophies to Mount Temple in their school soon. Well done to all the students who took part and see you next year!