Our summer public engagement activities are now getting into a lovely rhythm! Previous to the CCI project, the majority of our public engagement activities were based around science themed events, like the Cork Carnival of Science, Science Week and Dublin Maker. These events are fantastic and we always engage with huge numbers of people ofContinue reading “The Sound of Chemistry”
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Chemistry at the Carnival
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 andContinue reading “Chemistry at the Carnival”
Schools Out!
The 2024/2025 academic year has now concluded for CCI school workshops, and it was the busiest year yet. For the first time since CCI started in 2022, our team of enthusiastic PhD researchers engaged with over a thousand students in a single academic year. They visited Transition Year and Leaving Cert students in 40 schoolsContinue reading “Schools Out!”
Engineers Day and ESB Science Blast
Our first public engagement events for 2025 took place at the start of March, with teams of researchers from Cork, Sligo and Dublin all chipping in. The Cork based CCI team from UCC Chemistry and Tyndall demonstrated how to make a battery for the Lifetime Lab Engineers Open day on Sunday the 2nd of March.Continue reading “Engineers Day and ESB Science Blast”
School Workshops are back for 2025!
Our teams of researchers from Cork, Dublin and Sligo are back on the road visiting schools all over Ireland for 2025. The workshops are ideal for TY and Leaving Cert students with a variety of skills developed over the course of the visit. We also provide a Q&A at the end of every session whereContinue reading “School Workshops are back for 2025!”
CCI Symposium 2025
We kicked off a new calendar year with our project symposium, inviting all project partners to Trinity College Dublin to discuss the data we have collected so far, test out some new TY activities, take part in some training and network with colleagues. We had a number of presenters over the two days which included:Continue reading “CCI Symposium 2025”
Science Week Fun
This year we had a very busy science week schedule. In addition to our usual secondary school workshops running all over the country, we also ran activities at various public events. Our great Sligo team kicked off the fun at the Sligo Science Festival on the Sunday, quickly followed by the Dublin team at theContinue reading “Science Week Fun”
Girl Guides
As well as running Secondary School workshops and micro-workshops at public engagement events, we also run workshops with community groups. Well done to our team from Tyndall National Institute who ran a very well received workshop with the Girl Guides in Cork. The workshop was led by Veda Sandeep with help from Dimitra Psychogiou, ShreeContinue reading “Girl Guides”
We’re back on the road!
With the start of the new school year, our teams in Dublin, Sligo and Cork have hit the ground running with our Current Chemistry Investigators (CCI) school workshops. We have emailed all the teachers who have been in touch and we are now slowly arranging dates for this academic year. More details about our schoolsContinue reading “We’re back on the road!”
Researchers Night
For the first time our researchers at Trinity College Dublin took the lead to run a very busy stand at the European Researchers Night festival on campus in September. The European Researchers’ Night is the largest science outreach event in Europe. In 2024 and 2025, 58 projects ran across 25 countries. Universities and research institutes across EuropeContinue reading “Researchers Night”
Current Chemistry Investigators (CCI) 