Inishowen supports
budding engineers
03.03.23
ENGINEERING comes to life
in Inishowen next week, as Spraoi agus Spórt kick off a
series of events for young people. The free events take
place as part of Engineers Week, which gives children a
chance to explore the creative and diverse opportunities
an engineering career offers.
Spraoi chief executive, Helen Nolan, says events like
Engineers Week can help point children to positive
future career options. Parents can book a place at
www.spraoiagussport.ie or by contacting Programme
Coordinator, Aine Kelly at
aine@spraoiagussport.ie .
Helen says Engineers Week will bring Spraoi's Digital
Creative Lab to a wider range of Inishowen children. “It
is an opportunity for children who have had a taste of
our STEAM (science, technology, engineering & maths)
activities in school and want to do more outside school.
The focus is on children who haven’t had a chance yet to
have fun learning with programmable robots, electronics,
circuits, 3D printing and digital design.” |
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Cloontagh NS, Clonmany
(left) and Urblereagh NS, Malin Head enjoy the
activities at Spraoi's Digital Creative Lab. |
Spraoi will run activities
for 15 young people next week (Monday 6th - Thursday 9th
March 2023), ranging from 6-year-olds up to teenagers:
• Monday from 3:30pm to 5pm is for 1st and 2nd class
• Tuesday from 3:30pm to 5pm is for 2nd and 3rd class
• Wednesday from 4pm to 5:30pm is for secondary school
students.
• Thursday from 3:30pm to 5pm is for 5th and 6th class
The events will be held at their Digital Creative Lab,
Unit 9 at Supervalu. |
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St Bodens NS, Culdaff
enjoy the activities at Spraoi's Digital Creative Lab. |
Helen explained: “Aine,
Paul and Chris in the Digital Creative Lab have designed
new activities open to children as young as 7 to try the
equipment and challenges of the Lab for the first time.
All of the sessions are free, thanks to local sponsor,
Inishowen Co-Op who help fund the Lab.”
Mark Devlin, Engineering Teacher at Carndonagh Community
Schools says what Spraoi offers at the lab helps
students develop spatial awareness of different objects.
“It gets them problem solving and thinking of solutions
to problems. It’s cross-curricular, bringing all
subjects together such as math, science, engineering and
art and it allows them to be imaginative.” |
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