Shauna O'Keeffe, a third-year student from Castleisland Community College, is hoping to win her second national title in as many years in the National Sophia Physics Competition. Shauna was part of a group that won the Junior category last year, and this year she undertook her own research and entered the competition again. She has now been short-listed as a finalist. Five different transition-year groups have also been short-listed as finalists in their categories. Shauna's project is a study about electrostatics in bees and how they interact with flowers in nature. Bees are among the earth's hardest-working creatures and are one of the most important plant pollinators.