UCC Psych Slam Competition 2023 - First Place!

Kinsale Community School have once again competed in the prestigious Psychology Competition, Psych Slam, set up and run by the Applied Psychology Department in University College Cork. Psych Slam is an annual competition that involves students from schools across Munster competing in a Psychology Research Project and presenting their findings in front of a panel of judges, as well as other competing schools.  

L-R; Sean Finnegan, Lucy Kelleher, Rebecca Beecher, Grace McCarthy, Roise O’Donovan and Aengus Price

A selection of our students attended an in-person training day for the event on Friday, 27th January 2023, where the students chose a topic relating to Psychology that intrigued them the most. They banded together and created a presentation on their chosen topic, including a PowerPoint, skits, and field research. The aim is to develop research skills, presentation skills and have a lot of fun. This year, the team chose the topic ‘Why do we share on social media?’ 

The team of six students attended the live competition event in UCC on Friday, the 24th of February and presented their research to a panel of judges and two other schools in the first heat of the competition. The team were successful in the heats and qualified to the top five finalist and competed again in the finals.  

The team consisted of the following students: 

  • Rebecca Beecher 

  • Lucy Kelleher 

  • Aengus Price 

  • Roise O’Donovan 

  • Grace McCarthy 

  • Sean Finnegan 

  • Saoirse Hayes 

The accompanying teachers and the team thoroughly enjoyed the day in UCC and found all the presentations fascinating. Everyone learnt something new from each presentation.  

It was an extremely tough competition, but in the end, the team came away with First Place! A fantastic achievement and very well deserved. Huge congratulations to the team on their hard work preparing for the competition and thanks to Ms. Janet Forrest, who led and organized the KCS team. 

Janet Forrest