St. Aloysius College, Athlone
The institution is named after Aloysius Gonzaga, the Renaissance Italian aristocrat born in 1568, who joined the Jesuits, and was canonized by Pope Benedict XIII in 1726.The new school is located at the existing Summerhill site, on the outskirts of Athlone, with a new name, and new management structures.[2] In 2014, the school won third place in the technology category at the Young Scientist Exhibition,[3] with students Lochlann O’Regan, Paul Rushe and Eryk Zaplata[4] answer to the question 'Can non-proprietary/open-source software be used to emulate large scale proprietary text to speech systems?'.[5] Also in 2014 students Dylan Fuery, Chris Halota and Oisin Prendergast won a Display award at the Young Scientist Exhibition with their project "Can an architectural program be combined to create a interactive map?".Also in 2014, the school won the SEAI Sustainable Energy Award at the SciFest event at Athlone Institute of Technology, with pupil Aaron Broughall's project 'Let your devices soak up the rain', under the mentor-ship of teacher Bill Kearney,[6] while student Loughlan O'Regan was recognised with a Junior Ericsson Technology Award for his project 'Teaching the basics of sailing using information technology tools'.