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Do You Want to Make a Battery?

For the third year in a row, the CCI team setup shop at the Dublin Maker festival for some public engagement. We returned to Richmond Barracks again where we met over 1,000 people over the two days. Well done to everyone from Trinity College Dublin and the Atlantic Technological University Sligo for their professionalism andContinue reading “Do You Want to Make a Battery?”

Community Spirit

After two years of enormous success at science events like the Cork Carnival of Science, Dublin Maker and Science Week, this summer we also delivered our popular public engagement activities at some community events in the North West of Ireland for the first time. At the end of June we hosted our micro workshops atContinue reading “Community Spirit”

Cork Carnival of Science 2024

For the third year in a row, we returned to the ever popular Cork Carnival of Science, held in Fitzgerald’s Park in Cork city. As always, there was a huge attendance over the two days, passing over 10,000 people. Thanks to Mervyn for having us there, it is great to have Lifetime Lab on ourContinue reading “Cork Carnival of Science 2024”

Meeting Schools in the North-West

Our ATU Sligo team have been very busy as we approach the end of the academic year with visits to St. Mary’s Ballisadare, Ballinrobe Community School, Letterkenny Community School, and St. Murdach’s in Ballina. Some of the workshops took place on campus, while others took place in schools. We continue to work closely with schoolsContinue reading “Meeting Schools in the North-West”

Public Engagement is Back

Our pubic engagement activities are back for 2024 with two events in March. First up we had the Lifetime Lab Engineers Open Day on Sunday, 3rd March. This was led by Bláithín from Trinity College Dublin (TCD) who trained and coordinated a team of three researchers from UCC and Tyndall. Then we went straight intoContinue reading “Public Engagement is Back”

New Partners!

We are delighted that our popular CCI project will continue until the end of 2025 thanks to generous support by Science Foundation Ireland (SFI) from the Discover Programme. In addition to our existing partners in Trinity College Dublin (TCD) and the Atlantic Technological University Sligo, we are also expanding to more partners, in Munster withContinue reading “New Partners!”

New Year – New Schools

We kicked off another academic year in Ireland with lots of new schools in the North West and around Dublin. The postgrad team in ATU Sligo undertook the long journey up to Letterkenny to meet the students in Loreto, as well as a trip over to Mayo to meet everyone at Gortnor Abbey. The teamContinue reading “New Year – New Schools”

International School Workshops

We have kicked off another academic year of school workshops, but this time in Belgium! The Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) Belgium Local Section kindly invited us over to run workshops with two international schools. You can read their blog post about the trip here: https://rscbelgium.blogspot.com/2023/10/current-chemistry-investigates-movies.html The funding for the trip was provided by theContinue reading “International School Workshops”

PhD Training for the new Academic Year

Our CCI workshops are run by PhD researchers (Ambassadors) from Trinity College Dublin (TCD) and the Atlantic Technological University (ATU) Sligo. To ensure that our workshops continue to meet the highest quality in terms of informal education, we provide training for our PhD researchers in the form of Science Communication, informal education, public engagement andContinue reading “PhD Training for the new Academic Year”

CCI Town Hall Meeting and First Publication

At the end of August we were delighted to gather everything together for our first ever “CCI Symposium” or “Town Hall” meeting. We had project coordinators, facilitators and PhD ambassadors all together for the day in Trinity College Dublin. We also had some new partners with us from UCC Chemistry, Tyndall and Lifetime Lab. WeContinue reading “CCI Town Hall Meeting and First Publication”