Science on Stage Board appointment
Congrats to Paul Nugent, Institute of Physics Ireland and ISTA Dublin Branch, on being elected to the Science on Stage Board during SonS 2017.
Congrats to Paul Nugent, Institute of Physics Ireland and ISTA Dublin Branch, on being elected to the Science on Stage Board during SonS 2017.
The following are links to experiments that you can send to your students. Each will download the zipped files needed to run the simulation. Each will…
A student who designed a unique assisted shaving device wins SciFest 2017. EnableArm is an assisted shaving device for people with limited hand dexterity. Aaron…
Under the motto “Inventing the Future of Science Education” the next Science on Stage festival, the largest European educational fair for STEM teachers, will take…
The Institute of Physics in Ireland is preparing an "Initial Response" to the State Examination Commission.
A full report will be sent to the SEC after the Marking Schemes have been published and the meetings in Blackrock Education Centre and at Frontiers of Physics in September. If you have any comments on these papers please send them to paul.nugent@gmail.com
A group will meet to discuss the Physics Exam papers on Tues 21st June starting at 7pm in Buswells Hotel, 23 Molesworth St. Dublin 2 (Opposite Dáil Eireann). Please let David Keenahan know if you can come along (dkeenahan@gmail.com).
Other dates for your diary:
1. Robert Boyle Summer School Programme June 23rd – 26th 2016
(More info at: http://www.robertboyle.ie )
2. Frontiers of Physics 2016 takes place Sat 24th Sept 2016, in DIT, Grangegorman Campus, Dublin. (Prof. Mike Cruise is the keynote speaker. He was the lead investigator on LIGO Gravitational Wave detector. There will be lots of workshops and free resources).
Two secondary school students from Ireland won a total of three awards at the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair (ISEF) which this year was held this year in Los Angeles from Sunday 11th May to Friday 16th May.