SciFest Ezine, Volume 2, Number 1, October 2010

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Welcome back from SciFest

• WIN AN IPOD SciFest Science Week 2010 Crossword Competition. Downloadable from www.scifest.ie

• The closing date for receipt of entries for

I am sure that by the time

students motivated while

the project may not be ac-

this newsletter arrives the

they are waiting to see if

cepted. Remind them that

summer holidays will have

their project has been ac-

SciFest 2011 takes place in

faded into a distant mem-

cepted for exhibition but if

April/May and to keep on

ory. Schools have been

they are serious about en-

investigating.

busy places since 1 Sep-

SciFest 2011 is 9 March 2011

tember.

INSIDE THIS ISSUE:

Many

The closing date for

activities

have taken place after

entries for SciFest 2011 is

school or at weekends.

9 March 2011

The Frontiers of Physics Please note:

Conference was held in SciFest 2010 The Statistics

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Massive increase in numbers participating in SciFest

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SciFest and the ITs

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Launch of SciFest 2011

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SciFest 2011 New Awards

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2010 ESA/ GTTP workshop for science teachers

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ECOUNESCO Young Environmentalist Awards

4

the Department of Experimental

Physics,

NUI

Maynooth on Saturday 25

SciFest 2010@ ITTralee Intel Best Project Award Muireann Keating, Presentation Secondary School, Tralee

Sept. and ChemEd 2010 took place in DIT on Sat-

tering they should continue

urday 9 Oct.

working on their projects

Entries for the BTYSTE

during this waiting period. If

2011 had to be in by the 4

the

Oct. It’s difficult to keep

does not tick all the boxes

one

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proposal

Schools will be closed for the Easter holidays from 8 April – 2 May 2011. Many ITs will be holding their SciFest science fairs before Easter. SciFest 2011 @CIT 8 April SciFest 2011 @DIT 14 April SciFest 2011 @AIT 14 April Further dates will be posted on the website www.scifest.ie as they become available.

2649 students exhibited 1097 projects in SciFest 2010 SciFest 2010 @GMIT Intel Best Project Award and Discover Sensors Award Winners Roisin Kelly, Sadhbh Burke and Katie Connole Mary Immaculate Secondary school, Lisdoonvarna, Co Clare Project Title: ‘Rushes as an Insulator’


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