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Organisers of the BT Young Scientist & Technology Exhibition, have suggested that Ireland needs to take an early, more rounded, approach to fostering an interest in STEM with students. This comes as this year’s Leaving Cert results show an increase, under the new marking scheme, of student securing top level marks in STEM subjects such as physics, chemistry, biology, technical graphics, and maths.

Ten Westmeath primary schools will receive the esteemed Discover Primary Science and Maths (DPSM) award for science and maths excellence.

NUI Galway will host the 52nd annual Irish Science Teachers’ Association Conference on Friday and Saturday.

Science Foundation Ireland’s Discover Programme is calling on Galway primary schools nationwide to help them track the arrival of spring by getting involved in Greenwave 2014.

Students throughout Westmeath have been called upon to put their knowledge of science to the test and enter SciFest 2014! Sponsored by SFI Discover and now in its seventh year as a national project, SciFest is an all-inclusive, all-island science competition where second-level students showcase science, technology, engineering, and maths (STEM) projects at a series of one day science fairs held regionally in the 14 Institutes of Technology and the University of Ulster, Derry.

This new physics course uses an engaging hands-on method for teaching physics to develop the student’s basic understanding of the subject. The student can then use this knowledge to sit the higher level Leaving Certificate physics exam. The course is designed to help students work in teams to explore how the world works by creating experiments to test their ideas.

Discover Science & Engineering (DSE) has announced that six primary schools across Westmeath have received an Award of Science and Maths Excellence as part of the Discover Primary Science & Maths (DPSM) programme.

Science Ireland, originally established as the True Physics Project in 2001, celebrates its 10th anniversary this year. The project was established to promote the physics curriculum, and in so doing, assist schools in their bid to retain students of the subject.

Westmeath schools have been invited to take part in this year’s Greenwave project after two schools took part in the project last year. The participating schools in 2010 were Scoil Náisiúnta Brighde Buach, Rochfortbridge and Eoin Naofa National School, Mullingar.

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