As we enter our 5th year of the CCI project, we are still visiting new schools in new parts of Ireland. 2025 finished off with some visits to schools in the North West, led by the ATU facilitators, and 2025 has now started with schools in Dublin and the North West. Well done to allContinue reading “New Year, New Schools”
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Sharing Best Practise
Every year the entire CCI team meet up to share best practise, network and complete training and upskilling. We also use the oppertunity to share strories and ideas from our travels around Ireland. It is also a great oppertunity to provide Science Communication training and make changes to the content and evaluation components of theContinue reading “Sharing Best Practise”
Hitting Our Stride
Over the summer of 2025 we had some staff changes for the project with Nishanth making the move from ATU Sligo to Trinity College Dublin to take over as our full-time project coordinator. Thankfully, after running CCI for 3 full academic years, the workshop and logistics are now a well oiled machine so Nishanth wasContinue reading “Hitting Our Stride”
Making all the Right Moves
For 2025, Dublin Maker moved venues, taking over the Leopardstown Racecourse in South Dublin! As a result, we finished our summer with the busiest ever Dublin Maker – with 1,234 responses on our HappyorNot smiley face stand, which is the largest we have collected at any event throughout the CCI project. Well done to ourContinue reading “Making all the Right Moves”
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”
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”
Current Chemistry Investigators (CCI) 