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”
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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”
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!”
Current Chemistry Investigators (CCI) 