Our summer public engagement activities are now getting into a lovely rhythm! Previous to the CCI project, the majority of our public engagement activities were based around science themed events, like the Cork Carnival of Science, Science Week and Dublin Maker. These events are fantastic and we always engage with huge numbers of people ofContinue reading “The Sound of Chemistry”
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Engineers Day and ESB Science Blast
Our first public engagement events for 2025 took place at the start of March, with teams of researchers from Cork, Sligo and Dublin all chipping in. The Cork based CCI team from UCC Chemistry and Tyndall demonstrated how to make a battery for the Lifetime Lab Engineers Open day on Sunday the 2nd of March.Continue reading “Engineers Day and ESB Science Blast”
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”
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”
Current Chemistry Investigators (CCI) 