Education
School Students research in BiOrbic labs wins awards!
Huge congratulations to Juliette, Aoife and Honor from Loreto College, St Stephens Green for coming first in the Biological and Ecological Senior category at the BT Young Scientist competition as well as winning the life sciences awards at the SciFest national final! Julitette, Aoife, and Honor visited the BiOrbic labs during the summer of 2022…
Read MoreBack for the Future Tour 2022
The Back for the Future Escape Room Tour returned for 2022 and this time it was fully in-person! A team of two actors and two technicians took our climate change-themed escape room on the road for SFI Science Week. This year we hit Navan, Kilkenny, Portlaoise, Shannon, Blessington and Dundalk, taking the escape room to…
Read MoreBudding Scientists team up with BiOrbic for BT Young Scientist
Juliette, Aoife and Honor, three secondary school science students from Loreto College, St. Stephen’s Green in Dublin, were keen to understand more about plastics and biodegradable plastics. Led by Juliette, the three students approached BiOrbic in December 2021 to see if they could carry out some experiments at BiOrbic labs in UCD as part of…
Read MoreSustainable Living Competition 2022
How can we as ordinary citizens live more sustainably? BiOrbic tried to help Dublin families answer this question at UCD festival this year. A team of 22 researchers and operations staff put together three separate exhibits, exploring the ‘Life of Plastics’, ‘Life of Food’ and ‘Life of Pets. Life of Plastics focused on our plastic…
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