For Secondary Schools

The team at WhizzKids have been busy creating 16 different tech courses, covering everything from Animation to Web Design, Game Development to Machine Programming, etc. These online courses are all designed & recorded by experienced teachers, however, the teachers have been transformed into their ‘avatars’ and animated to present the lessons in a more engaging fashion for students. We believe that this new online learning platform will be the first of its kind in the world, not only for its methodology but also for its content. Other online platforms teaching IT normally restrict content to coding lessons, ignoring the more creative aspects of technology. WhizzKids.io on the other hand, blends the creative aspects of technology with more traditional aspects of coding to help children develop a full suite of digital skills.

WhizzKids will set up individual accounts for each participating student, listed under their teacher’s account. This means that the Learning Management System will keep track of your students’ progress as they develop tech skills in a range of areas. The students earn badges & XP points as they progress through the programmes & we can show a Leader board, which keeps them motivated. They will also earn Certificates of Completion once they have finished each course, so they could use these for their school portfolios.

The lessons can be accessed anytime, anywhere as long as they have internet access, so the show can go on even in the event of another lockdown. Another benefit, from a teacher’s point of view, is that there are reporting tools inbuilt, so that teachers can monitor the progress of their students.

The 3D Design Challenge is to recreate the Galway Cathedral in 3D using SketchUp. Students can learn how to use this software free of charge on the Academy.

To book: please use the school booking form

A talk, using state of the art interactive technology, discussing the connection between the moon and the tides

TO BOOK: please use school booking form.

Corrib Kids Coding will hold virtual coding workshops with primary and secondary schools throughout Galway city and county to code a game called “Choose Your Future” with Scratch programming and Microsoft Makecode.  The workshops will be supported by volunteers from SAP.

Participants will be brought on a wonderful interactive guided Virtual Reality journey to see, to hear and to interact with students and staff of the Insight Centre of Data Analytics as they present their technology projects within a computer-generated simulated university lecture hall, followed by a visit to a technology heritage room to look at iconic electronic business, communications and games devices from the Computer and Communications Museum of Ireland, then to view displays of ‘Data Muses’ on the theme of art in data, and finally walk through a gallery dedicated to research in areas such as Smart Cities, Connected Health and Climate Change.

To register contact Brendan Smith at brendan.b.smith@nuigalway.ie

Using Data Science to collect and analyse the stories and images of the past for present and future generations through the local community and schools-based BEO Fadó Fado online local heritage archives initiative.

This project will provide workshops on how to alter, enhance and colour photographs on free open source software as well as on how to record historical material to allow for the extraction of knowledge and insights through data analytics.

To register contact Marie Mannion at mmannion@galwaycoco.ie

The Computer and Communications Museum of Ireland, in conjunction with the Insight SFI Research Centre for Data Analytics NUI Galway, will host a coding workshop using BASIC with mentoring that includes some of the same people involved in similar workshops that took place in schools, colleges and computer clubs in Galway during the early 1980s!

To book email events@galwayscience.ie 

The arrival of social distancing due to Covid-19 made many of us aware of the importance of the width and condition of local footpaths.

Are Irish footpaths accessible? Accessible to whom? Different people have different needs when navigating footpaths.

In order to address these questions and learn how to map the accessibility of footpaths, the Crowd4Access team at the Insight SFI Research Centre for Data Analytics are inviting the public to take part in a set of two mapping (Part 1 & 2) workshops

To register visit: https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/crowd4access-mapping-workshop-registration-126046916721?aff=internal

How many legs does a tarantula have? What happens if you get stung by a giant scorpion? Can a python crush your bones? Here you will find the answers to these questions -and many others! Join the NUI Galway Bug Doctor and discover some of his fascinating animals : a golden knee tarantula, a giant Asian forest scorpion, giant African millipedes, spiny-leg stick insects from Papua New Guinea, a large Burmese python and meet Kenge, a Tegu lizard from Argentina, whose bite could cut your fingers in half !