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!”
Category Archives: School Workshop
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!”
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!”
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”
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”
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’re back for 2023!
The Trinity College Dublin team have kicked off the new calendar year with workshops in Coolmine Community School in west Dublin, Clongowes in Kildare and Templecarrig in Wicklow. They have battled the wet and cold weather to get back on the road again with our battery investigation workshop. Our secondary school workshops are aimed atContinue reading “We’re back for 2023!”
School Workshops in the North West
The ATU Sligo team have been very busy throughout the months of November and December especially, with workshops running every week. The team of staff and PhD researchers have had numerous schools on campus during Science Week and have also visited schools all around the North West of Ireland. Over the past few weeks, theContinue reading “School Workshops in the North West”
Current Chemistry Investigators (CCI) 