After a very positive experience at Dublin Maker 2022, we returned this year with our battery maker micro workshop. We brought with us a significant amount of experience from numerous other events that we attended since June 2022, which really benefited us in terms of crowd control and engagement levels this year. The festival changedContinue reading “Dublin Maker 2023”
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Green Energy Resource
Huge thank you to Inigo Iribarren for his work on this new poster highlighting the ground breaking and historical contributions Ireland has made towards Green Energy over the past 100 years. It starts with the building of Ardnacrusha hydro power station in 1929, through to the hugely important pumped storage station at Turlough Hill andContinue reading “Green Energy Resource”
Cork Carnival of Science 2023
Our PhD ambassadors are key to the success of our Current Chemistry Investigators (CCI) project. As well as helping everyone learn more about green energy, we also provide tangible role models for budding young scientists. Our team of 8 brilliant PhD researchers from Trinity College Dublin & Atlantic Technological University Sligo “sparked conversations” with about 2000 people at the Cork CarnivalContinue reading “Cork Carnival of Science 2023”
Leinster School Workshops
Our Trinity College Dublin team have been extremely busy this academic year, with over 30 schools visited all over Leinster and some in Munster too. Here are a collection of photos from some of our most recent school visits to CBA Naas in Co. Kildare, Kilkenny College, Temple Carrig School in Greystones, Co. Wicklow, St.Continue reading “Leinster School Workshops”
Wrapping up for the Academic Year
Our first ever full academic year is now coming to an end with the last few workshops running through the month of May. It’s incredible that this time last year we were running our first pilot workshops in a handful of schools. From those tentative first steps we took on board all the advice providedContinue reading “Wrapping up for the Academic Year”
UCC Chemistry Collaboration
At the end of April we travelled down south for the first of many collaborations with the University College Cork (UCC) School of Chemistry for the UCC Access Programme. We ran our CCI secondary school workshop with a great bunch of Transition Year students in the science labs in UCC from multiple Cork schools. ItContinue reading “UCC Chemistry Collaboration”
ISTA Conference 2023
We made the trip to the Technological University of the Shannon (TUS) in Limerick on the 1st of April for the 2023 Irish Science Teachers Association (ISTA) conference. Teacher support and professional development is a large part of our long term plans for the CCI project. By encouraging, enabling and supporting teachers in their teachingContinue reading “ISTA Conference 2023”
SFI Discover Partners Day
Huge thank you to Science Foundation Ireland (SFI) for inviting us to speak at their Discover Awards Partners day about our research into digital feedback methods. From the very beginning of our project we have priortised feedback and evaluation, in particular making it as assessible as possible to ensure that we are gathering an accurateContinue reading “SFI Discover Partners Day”
Spring has Sprung in the North West
The ATU Sligo team have been very busy through the month of March running school workshops all over the West and North West of Ireland. The team of PhD’s have visited Mayo, Galway, Leitrim and Donegal over the course of a few weeks. Well done to everyone at ATU Sligo for their huge commitment andContinue reading “Spring has Sprung in the North West”
We had a Blast!!
A whopping 26 PhD and early career researchers from both Trinity College Dublin and the Atlantic Technological University Sligo, sparked conversations with over 800 primary students at our stand in the RDS for the ESB Science Blast! It was our biggest event to date in terms of the number of days, researchers and engagement. PrimaryContinue reading “We had a Blast!!”
Current Chemistry Investigators (CCI) 