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"Science Live" Award 2006

We have been awarded a Science Live grant by the Royal Dublin Society to develop a new show about light and sound for key stage 3 students. This show will be launched at the RDS in Dublin on 16 October 2006. Read more about the show here.

resources for teachers now online

Preparation guides and support notes can now be downloaded from this site to help primary school teachers prepare and follow-up our visits to school. We hope that this facility will allow teachers to access these resources more easily, as well as reducing the amount of paper than we produce. We welcome any comments or suggestions that teachers have to continue to improve these resources.

Paul is now an EPSRC mentor

Paul has recently been appointed as an EPSRC mentor to help researchers in universities across the UK develop and manage their EPSRC sponsored public engagement projects in science and engineering. Find out more about the EPRSC scheme here.

Churchill Fellowship tour

Paul was awarded a Churchill Trust Fellowship to tour science centres and outreach providers in the USA in October 2005.

think differently to appear at ASE NI and ISTA conferences

We will be presenting new sessions for teachers at both the ISTA conference in Athlone (24 and 25th March 2006) and at the NI ASE conference In Stranmillis College, Belfast (2 June 2006).