Old Cork Waterworks Experience The visitor experience at Old Cork Waterworks Experience continued to operate with restrictions in place. In addition, winter opening hours are now in operation, the site now operates Monday to Friday and remains closed at weekends. The Lifetime Lab had 1,974 outreach contacts in November and the Old Cork waterworks experience has 174 visitors. Let’s Find Out – RTEjr Science Series Let's Find Out, RTEjr's science series was broadcast in November to coincide with national Science Week. The children’s scenes were all filmed at Old Cork Waterworks Experience over the summer with the popular attraction transforming into a futuristic film set.
online and blended offering until the easing of Covid-19 restrictions until January 2022. A third primary workshop, SEAI Energy was reintroduced as an offering over October. All available dates for the three primary level workshops, SEAI, Explorers Primary Marine Science and the House of Circuits are now allocated with an extensive waiting list in operation. SEAI Energy Workshop - School Visit: Lifetime Lab has been an SEAI Education partner since 2010 and resumed the delivery of in-school workshops on a trial basis in late October. The model is to deliver several 90 min sessions per day at the school. A facilitator visited 5 Cork primary schools, delivering 12 workshops to 270 children in November. A further 4 schools, 299 children will receive workshops over December while always adhering to public health guidelines. Explorers Primary Marine Science - Online: Lifetime Lab is the education partner for the Cork region for “Explorers” a primary marine science education program and has been awarded a new 2-year contract funded by the Marine Institute. A total of 34 online sessions engaging a total of 762 school children from Cork City primary schools were delivered over the month of November. House of Circuits - Blended: A new classroom-based science workshop titled “House of Circuits” was made available to all primary schools in Cork City and the greater Cork area. Initial take up was very popular with all available dates fully subscribed to year end. A total of 35 sessions were delivered to 915 children in November with a further 26 sessions to over 645 primary school children booked for December. This project is supported by Science Foundation Ireland under the Discover Programme call 2020.
OCWE Exhibition Space features in RTEjr Lets find Out science series
Cork Mini Boat Atlantic Adventure We received news the morning of November 7th that the HVES Cruiser had been relaunched by the Crew of the M/V Independent Horizon when M. Maciejewski emailed us the following “Please be informed that we successfully launched mini boat today, Sunday, Nov. 7th / 1340 UTC, in position: Lat – 37.14,1 N; Lon – 071.33.7 W, over Gulf Stream Ocean current. The progress of the Mini Boat may be tracked by following this link http://explore.educationalpassages.org/#
Lifetime Lab Education activity Education activities continue to prosper following successful reopening of schools in September. Our primary science engagement program will remain an
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