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STEAM Workshop Week ten -The final Workshop We teamed up with our local Dublin school, The Good Shepard National School in Churchtown, to deliver STEAM Education’s fun packed and stimulating Engineering programme for 9-13 year old kids, “Engineering in a Box”. The highly interactive and fun focussed programme was co-taught by the inspirational Niamh Smith, Primary Teacher with the…

STEAM Workshop Week nine – It was Ryan’s fourth week with the class.Ryan was doing biomechanics with the class. They looked at videos of people and animals with prosthetics and how the engineering has improved over time. They then got to make replicas of biomechanics hands which actually worked to pick things up and let…

  ” order_by=”sortorder” order_direction=”ASC” returns=”included” maximum_entity_count=”500″]  STEAM Workshop Week eight – It was Ryan’s third week with the class.They were looking at communication and the influence engineers have on it. They looked at the history of communication and made codes using morse code for the others to decipher. Excited to see what Week 9 will cover?…

  ” order_by=”sortorder” order_direction=”ASC” returns=”included” maximum_entity_count=”500″]STEAM Workshop Week seven – It was Ryan’s second week exploring Electrical Engineering. The children made sophisticated circuits which included LED lights, resistor, photoresistor and switch. The children learnt about the flow of electrons through a battery and circuit. Excited to see what Week 8 will cover? Find out more on the…

  ” order_by=”sortorder” order_direction=”ASC” returns=”included” maximum_entity_count=”500″]  STEAM Workshop Week six – It was Ryan’s first week, they looked at environmental engineering and the difficulties around the world to access clean water.They made water filters in a cup using coffee filter paper, charcoal, gravel and sand. They separated the layers with gauze. They filtered dirty water…

  STEAM Workshop Week five -It was Jerry’s last week with the class. He put the children in groups of four and five to work on their project for the last week. The children will use everything they’ve learnt over the sessions to design their own invention. It could be a raft, something that flies…

” order_by=”sortorder” order_direction=”ASC” returns=”included” maximum_entity_count=”500″]  STEAM Workshop Week four -The 4th class learnt about engineering in relation to transport including mechanical, chemical, civil and electronic engineers. They learnt about prototypes and had to design and make a car that moved. Then they had to modify their car so that it could self propel, they found this…

” order_by=”sortorder” order_direction=”ASC” returns=”included” maximum_entity_count=”500″] STEAM Workshop Week three, the focus was on wind farming to make electricity. Jerry and the kids designed a windmill/turbine that rotated when air acted upon it.The children really enjoyed  this challenge and they also watched a video on wind farming. Excited to see what Week 4 will cover?Find out more…

” order_by=”sortorder” order_direction=”ASC” returns=”included” maximum_entity_count=”500″]  STEAM Workshop Week two was held in the Good Shepard School in Dundrum, Dublin 14. Jerry and the kids focused on the engineering that goes into manufacturing food. They designed a sweet factory using isometric dotted paper, they then used these designs to inspire their actual sweet factories. They worked in…

” order_by=”sortorder” order_direction=”ASC” returns=”included” maximum_entity_count=”500″] STEAM Workshop kicked off this week in the Good Shepard School in Dundrum, Dublin 14. Jerry Brennan, Senior Project Engineer,Stewart Construction introduced himself to the class and explained about all the different types of engineers. He also spoke about building in the real world. The workshop focused on bridges with…