Engineers Ireland is looking for an enthusiastic and energetic person with excellent communication skills to help coordinate activities in the “STEPS to engineering” schools awareness programme.
It established the programme in 2000 to encourage primary and post-primary students to explore the worlds of science, technology, engineering and mathematics.
STEPS to engineering manages and coordinates initiatives and activities within schools while supplying up-to-date information on engineering as a career through the Steps.ie website and publications.
The programme is supported by the Department of Education & Science, Discover Science & Engineering, FÁS and a number of major engineering employers.
Check their website for more details about the STEPS to engineering Coordinator position.
To apply, please email your CV along with a cover letter stating why you believe you are the right candidate for the positon to jbutler@engineersireland.ie
The BT Young Scientist & Technology Exhibition has kicked off at the RDS. We have a stand at the event. You can’t miss us, it’s called “Discover Sport” stand and there’s a F1 Ferrari car at it. You can learn about the science and engineering that goes into Formula 1 racing, and see how a wind tunnel simulates the aerodynamic air flow around model designs such as those for racing cars. Read more about it here. If you’re at the event why not call by and say hello. For updates on the exhibition, check out the BT Young Scientist & Technology Exhibition twitter account or blog.
We’re counting down to the BT Young Scientist & Technology Exxhibition next week and we’ll post details of our stand shortly. There’s lots of coverage in the media this week about some of the projects we can expect. We thought we’d flag how some of the previous winners are getting along, on our sister site Science.ie we have a story about Eimear O’Carroll and Rhona Togher, group runners up award at the 2009 show.
Eimear and Rhona set up a company – RestoredHearing.ie – with their former physics teacher at Ursuline College in Sligo, Anthony Carolan. For the Young Scientist competition the team devised a simple therapy which eases temporary tinnitus for anyone with internet access and a set of outer ear headphones. Last month their company won the “Emerging Technology Award” at the Connacht provincial final of the Ulster Bank Business Achievers Awards, and they will go on to the national finals later this year.
The Clubhouse is a state of the art multimedia technology centre for underserved young people (8-18 year olds) in the heart of the Liberties, Dublin. The aim of the Clubhouse is to help close the digital divide for a community that may not have the same kind of access to technology available elsewhere. The Clubhouse allows young people to use industry standard software such as the Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop, Premiere, InDesign, Illustrator, Dreamweaver), Final Cut Pro, Google Sketchup, Garage Band, 3D Game Maker and Mission Maker. Mentors are on hand to work with participants on one off or on-going projects and are crucial to developing young peoples interests and skills. For more information on the work of the Clubhouse and how to become involved, please visit the Clubhouse website. Here’s a video about the project.
A new Irish Science Podcast, entitled Science Chat, has launched – tune in here. The first episode looks at stem cell research, use of beauty for science communication, and the science behind chiropractic treatment.
Innovation Dublin is a week-long festival of workshops, events and showcases highlighting and encouraging innovation in the city taking place in October between the 14th and 20th. If you or your organization has an innovative idea, product, service or project that you’d like to showcase as part of the festival, the organisers would like to hear from you. To find out more, please visit www.innovationdublin.ie. Have a look at the trailer on YouTube.
The Physics Teachers Annual Conference, Frontiers of Physics 2009, is taking place this weekend on Saturday 26th September 2009 in the Engineering and Science Building, Waterford IT. A day of lectures, demonstrations, and workshops for post-primary teachers of physics are scheduled. For further information please email frontiers09@wit.ie
TEDx Dublin is a spinoff of the famous TED (Technology, Entertainment, Design) conference, which spawned TED Talks, which are lectures on interesting topics which organisers believe fit their mantra of “Ideas worth spreading”. Previous speakers have included former U.S. President Bill Clinton, Nobel laureates James D. Watson, Jane Goodall, and Al Gore, Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, Google co-founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page, and Billy Graham. More than 400 TED talks are provided for free viewing online.
Recently, a number of spinoff events have taken place across the globe and the Science Gallery hosted TEDx Dublin. The event proved to be extremely popular, with the event oversubscribed well in advance of the lectures. The Science Gallery have now also uploaded the videos to YouTube and made them available for anyone who was unable to attend.
The speakers at the eevnt were Blaise Aguera y Arcas, architect of Bing Maps for Microsoft; Mark Billinghurst from the HIT Lab NZ of the University of Canterbury; and Scott Rickard, Sparse Signal Processign Group in the Complex & Adaptive Systems Laboratory at University College Dublin.
Science Your Say is back in the Science Gallery from next Tuesday and will be in the gallery until the end of the month. Here’s a video overview to see the types of topics and people they will be talking to.
Making CAO choices is one of the most difficult decisions for most secondary school students. One of the biggest challenges is students often have no idea what their preferred choice is actually like until their first day in university. So in order to give prospective students more of an insight into what life is like studying science in college, University College Dublin recently opened up their doors for 80 fifth year students from around the county. The full report is available on the UCD website, with pictures from the day also posted online.
