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Ardfert National School win SEAI’s Nationwide Schools’ Competition
Congratulations to students from Ardfert National School, Co Kerry who were announced as the Primary School winners of SEAI’s One Good Idea competition for their project “Saving Energy at School – Ardfert Super Savers” at the national finals on 7th May. Entrants to the competition are challenged to run awareness campaigns for their school and surrounding communities to inspire everyone to use less energy in their daily lives and to help tackle climate change. The winning team received €2000 for their school, tablets for each team member and €100 voucher for their teacher, Ms Marie O’Connell.
The Ardfert Super Savers demonstrated creativity and enthusiasm with their campaign on saving energy and reducing carbon emissions. After carrying out substantial research they targeted the whole school by using costumes, a puppet show and a song - composed by themselves! Now in its seventh year, the One Good Idea competition extended to primary schools for the first time this year thanks to sponsorship from AIB.
For more on the competition see http://www.seai.ie/Schools/One-Good-Idea/
AMBER Centre Summer course
Summer Course for primary teachers: Magical Materials - nano and materials science in the classroom, runs from the 6th-10th July in CRANN, Trinity College Dublin. The course introduces teachers to nano and materials science through the 'NanoWOW' resource pack. Find out more here. Future technologies, cutting edge Irish research, STEM (science, technology, engineering, math) career awareness and education techniques around exploring and learning about materials will all be featured in the course. Register for the course here.
RDS Primary Science Fair 2016 is expanding!
In January 2016 the RDS Primary Science Fair will take place in Dublin and Limerick. This is great news for schools looking to complete Step 5 of the AOSME! To find out how we can make the Fair the best experience for students, parents and teachers, we invite primary school teachers to fill out a survey and tell us what is important to you:
Survey Link: http://bit.ly/1HPfbPa
Website link: www.rds.ie/primarysciencefair
Email: primarysciencefair@rds.ie
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