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CoderDojo online gathering aims to increase female participation
CoderDojo NYC has been talking to Coder Dojo mentors from across the globe, about the idea of starting an initiative to get more women and girls involved in CoderDojo. A Google Hangout has been...
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TY Students offered chance to ‘Engineer Your Future’
Engineers Ireland’s STEPS programme has just launched Engineering Your Future, a week-long, hands-on programme aimed at Transition Year students who have an interest in science and maths. The...
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HEA report shows rise in CAO applications for STEM courses
Irish technology news website, Silicon Republic, have reported that the Higher Education Authority (HEA) are publishing research showing a substantial increase in interest towards science, technology,...
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STEM Week ready to launch!
Students! Making CAO decisions or subject choices for Leaving Cert? Find out all you ever wanted to know about working in science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM) in our STEM Careers Week...
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Smart Futures STEM careers videos go live!
The Smart Futures STEM Careers Week kicked off last night with the release of our first STEM Careers panel session, answering student questions, about what it’s like to work in science. Tonight, we’re...
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Galway students learning STEM at US National Flight Academy
A group of Irish students from Galway have been immersed in simulated aviation training at the National Flight Academy, Florida, giving them a real-life experience of what a career in science,...
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Science Foundation Ireland welcomes increased interest in CAO science and...
Discover Science & Engineering (DSE), Science Foundation Ireland’s (SFI) education and outreach programme, has welcomed the increase in first preferences in science, technology, engineering and...
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Video: Career interview with Ericsson software engineers
Check out the latest Smart Futures STEM careers video, where we hear from two young software engineers – Rachel O’Toole and Martin Naughton – who work for Ericsson in Athlone. Read more about what it’s...
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Time to explore the XTRA-Ordinary in Science Week 2013!
Want to find out more about how antibiotics work or what’s in the water we drink? Do you wonder about the science of colour? If you’re a student interested in science (or a science teacher looking...
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Smart Futures STEM Careers Roadshow Science Week 2013
Smart Futures sent some top science and technology speakers on the road for Science Week 2013 to talk to students about careers in science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM). The speakers gave...
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IBM’s ‘Teachers TryScience’ provides free STEM teaching resources online
IBM has launched an online resource for teachers, called ‘Teachers TryScience’ which provides more than 150 lesson plans that can be accessed free of charge, to use in the classroom with students....
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Career Stories: PhD student Sinéad Cullen talks COOL Jobs
Sinéad Cullen is a scientist, currently doing a PhD in Physics, and she recently took part in the CRANN ‘COOL JOBS‘ event that ran in the Science Gallery in November. The event which ran in association...
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Career Stories: Christina Lynch, support engineer at SAP
The cliché of the lone computer geek programming in their bedroom never attracted Christina Lynch. She’s a people person and a problem solver, and combines both these talents in her new job as support...
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Raheny student wins top SciFest prize
Dublin student, Paul Clarke, from St. Paul’s College in Raheny has won the top prize at the national final of SciFest and will now go on to represent Ireland at the Intel International Science and...
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STEM careers roadshow videos now online
Smart Futures sent some great science and technology speakers on the road for Science Week 2013 to talk to students about what it’s like to work in science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM)....
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Why work in medtech? A video overview of Medtronic in Ireland
Medtronic is one of the largest employers in the medical technologies industry in Ireland, employing over 2,000 people. With the opening of their brand new Customer Innovation Centre in Galway, Barry...
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OECD PISA results show improved results in science education
The 2012 OECD PISA (Programme for International Student Assessment) results, released today, showed a marked improvement in the performance of Irish 15-year-olds in science, since the last results were...
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Smart Futures call for volunteers and volunteer trainers to give career talks...
The Smart Futures programme, which promotes science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM) careers to secondary students in Ireland, is developing a STEM volunteers schools programme, whereby people...
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Career Stories: Dr Arlene O’Neill, nanoscientist with a passion for...
With a PhD in physics from Trinity College Dublin, Arlene O’Neill is a nanomaterials scientist turned science communicator. After spending several years in a lab creating new materials at the level of...
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Career Stories: Professor Fergal O’Brien – the tissue engineer
Imagine if we could re-grow healthy new bone tissue to replace old or non-functioning tissue? In the lab, researchers have already done this, growing bone to naturally fit the ‘hole’ left by the...
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