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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”

Dublin Maker 2023

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”

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”