Students Tadhg Sheehan, Eryk Adamczyk and Conan Harrisson from Comeragh College, Carrick-on-Suir, examined the effects of mobile phones on school performances for their BT Young Scientist project at the RDS on January 10 2017.
They carried out surveys found phones were a huge distraction when studying.
Sound is better when using headphones.
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