Lifetime Lab - Primary STEM Outreach
Year Awarded
2020
Amount
€24,500
- Organisation:Cork City Council t/a Lifetime Lab
- Audience:Primary Students, Primary Teachers, General Public
- Location:Cork
- Topic:Science
Project Summary
This Lifetime Lab Primary STEM Outreach initiative will directly support the curriculum objectives of science within the Social Environmental and Science Education (SESE) primary curriculum and present opportunities for the development of skills, foster positive attitudes to science and raise awareness of the positive contribution of science and technology to society. Through hands on inquiry based learning experiences, delivered in school settings, children will develop informed, critical and scientific perspectives and acknowledge the importance of assuming judgments on a respect for facts, accuracy and logic.
This project presents an opportunity to significantly increase the level of STEM intervention (outreach in schools) currently available in the greater Cork region. Lifetime Lab has a well respected and proven track record of providing high quality STEM engagement workshops and events. The project team will leverage the learning, experience and models of best practice gained from over ten years of onsite STEM engagement activities to create a model suitable for delivery in a modern classroom environment.
In addition this project will serve as a mitigating measure to the reduction in STEM engagement activity owing to the risks (actual, perceived or otherwise) of Covid-19 within Irish primary schools. The transparent implementation of compliance measures during design, production and delivery will provide reassurance to school leaders when communicated at moment of truths.
In summary, this funding call will serve to increase the audience reach of STEM engagement by providing a mobile delivery option to primary schools and a tactile STEM promotional tool at public engagement events.