The budding young scientist has won numerous awards at the BT Young Scientist and Technology Exhbition and looks set to go on to marvellous things.

There's little doubting that he loves his work, and the competition element as well. "From the moment you learn that your project has been accepted, it is time for planning, investigating and preparing your report. At the exhibition, the atmosphere is electric; it's so busy and filled with anticipation. There are so many interesting projects, you meet the public and make new friends with people of similar interests. I have been there four years in a row."

That's something of an understatement .

In 2007, his analysis of weather patterns in continental and maritime regions whon him two prizes, first in his category and the Met Eireann award.

The next year, Henrik received an award from the Radiological Protection Institute of Ireland for his Investigation into the use of Americium 241 Radiation as a storage device for ROM discs.

2009 was another bumper year, in which Henrick garnered the Intel Best Project Award at the Scifest Competition held in LYIT. His Project was "An Investigation into the Performance of GPUs compared to CPUs in the Execution of floating point Operations"

In October, Minister Conor Lehihan presented him with an Intel Excellence in Science Medal at the Launch of Scifest 2010, in recognition of his achievement in the May competition.

In this year's BT Competition, collected two prizes, the Special Award from Smart Technologies and Second Place in the Senior Individual Section of the Technology Category for his investigation into the effect of voltage and clock frequency on the performance of different processors."