Applications for next year's BT Young Scientist Exhibition close next month.
Secondary school students are being urged to get their research ideas in by the 27th of September.
There's no application fee, and qualifying projects will be showcased during a virtual exhibition in January.
Marie Cahalane, Head of the BT Young Scientist Exhibition, has this advice for people putting together an application:
"What the judges are looking for really is a novel approach to a subject. So if a student has thought of another way of looking at a piece of research or innovation, that's what they really want to see. It could be a problem, or it could be something that the students see on a daily basis, something that they're really interested in. So the only thing that is holding people back is their imagination when it comes to projects."
