Now that we’ve finished our school workshops for another academic year, we return to our public engagement programme for the summer. First on our list this summer was the Cork Carnival of Science in Fitzgerarlds park in Cork City on the 7th and 8th of June. This is one of our biggest annual events and this year was no different. We had PhD ambassadors from Trinity College Dublin (TCD), ATU Sligo, University College Cork (UCC) and Tyndall National Institute. Well done to Conor (TCD), Niamh (TCD), Tanya (ATU) and Keerthi (Tyndall) for being our experienced leaders this year. Thank you and well done also to Julie (TCD), Matt (TCD), Keith (ATU), Sreedhanya (ATU), Jack (UCC), Tara (UCC), Sam (UCC), and Deismita (Tyndall) for giving up their weekend to be one of our ambassadors and role models.
Huge thanks for Mervyn as always for having us at his amazing carnival and for helping us organise our very busy stand! Thank you also to Lynette (Tyndall) for dropping into the stand and helping the team, as well as our UCC colleagues for their assistance. We gathered feedback from 850 people over the two days, which means we probably engaged with over 1000 people this time. This was the most feedback we have ever gathered at the Cork Carnival of Science and it was also the most positive, with 97% of respondents choosing one of the two green smiley faces. We received very few negative responses and only a handful of neutral responses this year, so well done everyone!
Current Chemistry Investigators (CCI) 