ScienceinAction YouthTrainCommunityTrainingCentre(CTC)

Youth Train CTC in Wexford town jumped at the chance once again, to collaborate with Wexford County Council asapartnerforScienceWeek2020

Learners worked as a team with scientist Michelle Maher to experiment and innovate with ideas on sustainable energy projects. While young people may feel strongly about issues such as the climate crisis, they feel that they need more than a lobbying voice Michelle’s approach to learning about energy was the theory that its easier for learners to understand when they design anddeveloppoweredvehicles,rocketsandturbines This project involved designing and building solutions for real world issues, in this case sustainable energy generation and storage It was empowering and practical with learnersaskingthequestionsthemselvesandlookingfor solutionstogether.Theprojectprovokedquestionsabout thesciencebehindthingstakenforgranted,imagininga more sustainable future, which is more sympathetic to theenvironment

Learning in this way can enhance employability with knowledge gained in skills working as a team on critical thinkingandinnovationtasks