SCIENCE FUN FOR ST.ETCHENS WITH IRISH MANUFACTURING RESEARCH

As part of the Midlands Science festival 2018, pupils from St Etchens National school in Kinnegad visited local company, Irish Manufacturing Research, for a day of challenges and games with the objective of exciting them about the world of science and technology. Pupils had the opportunity to get hands on experience of activities such as Virtual Reality, Cobotics, 3D printing, Analytics and Electronics.
Jackie Gorman said,
For our festival in 2018 we have partnered with a number of extremely supportive organisations including Irish Manufacturing Research to create opportunities which aim to encourage students to explore science. We are most grateful for the support and enthusiasm our partners and sponsors provide to enable us to spread the science message and without their help our festival would not be possible.’
This was one of over 120 events which took place throughout the region during national Science Week which was a huge success. Midlands Science work to build public awareness of the importance of science in everyday life, provide schools with opportunities for direct interaction with real scientists and talented speakers and encourage younger audiences to partake in real science activities so that they can get a taste for how diverse it actually is.
 
Louise Kelly, Marketing Coordina tor at IMR said,
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