Public Engagement
BiOrbic awarded SFI Discover Programme funding for “Generation Glas”
BiOrbic are delighted to have been awarded funding through the Science Foundation Ireland Discover Programme 2023. The SFI Discover Programme aims to empower diversity inclusion in STEM through public engagement projects across Ireland. The awardees of the funding are to use the funding to build connections with less-represented voices, or with those who would not…
Read MoreScoil Mhuire Crowned National “Environmental Innovators” Champions!
Congratulations to Scoil Mhuire, Trim for being the National Champions of the pilot programme Environmental Innovators! 31st January 2023. Minister of State at the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine Pippa Hackett presents the Environmental Innovators National Champions award to Social Mhuire Trim Co.Meath classmates from L-r Rachel Whyte, Grace Reilly and Niamh Collins…
Read MoreSchool 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 MoreBiOrbic at Munster Science Fair
Yesterday, BiOrbic researchers headed down to Mallow for Munster Science Fair! It was a hectic but fun day interacting with hundreds of families and discussing bio-based products. Upstairs, Hannah Gould gave a talk entitled ‘How will we live in 2050?’, exploring what the world would look like when our toilet paper comes from sour milk…
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