Old Cork Waterworks Experience (Lifetime Lab)
The visitor experience at Old Cork Waterworks Experience continued to operate with restrictions in place namely no guided tours and no indoor activities of any description for September. In addition, winter opening hours were introduced, the site now operates Monday to Friday and remains closed at weekends. There was a total of 748 outreach contacts during September and a total of 419 visitors to the site.
Cork Culture Night Friday September 17th - OCWE featured three distinct events for culture night, a family science workshop with three time slots, outdoor sustainable research exhibited by UCC school of BEES and a series of short films by Spookscreen. All events took place outdoors or here in our onsite marquee to comply with COVID-19 guidelines. Philadelphia Here I Come The cast and crew of Brian Friel’s musical Philadelphia Here I Come utilized the onsite space for two full weeks of rehearsals in September. Produced by Pat Talbott and directed by Geoffrey Gould, the show will run at Cork Opera House from October 6 th to 16th. Supporting Corks Special Olympians OCWE went green over September to support Cork ’ s Special Olympians. Cork Celebrates Lifelong Learning Awards 2021 Lifetime lab was delighted to make the role of honor and then be shortlisted for the inaugural Cork Celebrates Lifelong Learning Awards which was presented over TEAMS on Thursday the 30th of September. Lifetime lab was nominated in the primary level section. Education activities have resumed following the successful reopening of schools in September. Our primary science engagement program will remain an online of blended offering until the easing of COVID-19 restrictions on October 22nd. September's activities include direct mail, telephone, and emails to the 72 Cork city primary schools and a further 280 primary schools located in the county area. These activities resulted in a full allocation of all available dates for both the Explorers Primary Marine Science and the House of Circuits offering with an extensive waiting list in operation.
Family Science Workshop – Culture Night
OCWE went Green to support Cork’s Special Olympians
Explorers Primary Marine Science Lifetime Lab is the education partner for the Cork region of ‘’E xplorers ’’ a primary marine science education program and has been awarded with a new two-year contract funded by the Marine Institute. A total of 15 online sessions engaging a total of 402 schoolchildren from Cork city primary schools were delivered over the month of September. A further 63 online sessions to an additional 1750 plus schoolchildren will take place over the months of November and December.
House of Circuits 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 13 sessions were delivered to 169 children in September with a further 90 sessions to over 2300 primary schoolchildren booked for October November and December. This project is supported by Science Foundation Ireland under the Discover Program call 2020.
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