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Ms O'Sullivan and her 1st Year Science students are working on a project about Stem Cells as part of the new Junior Cycle Science curriculum.
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TY students work together to start the Biodiversity Garden
Ms McCarthy and Ms O'Sullivan started working with the TY students in the autumn of 2015 to create a Biodiversity Garden. Mr Priestley also worked with the TY students as they designed and produced two garden benches made from wooden pallets.
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TY students make LED torches at a Makeshop workshop
On Thursday, 12th May, Ms Finnegan brought the TY class to the Science Gallery and to Makeshop to make LED torches.
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Stratford’s Computer Studies classes highlighted at launch of Trinity Report on Digital Skills
On Friday, 13th May, Trinity College launched their "Trinity Access 21: Year 1" report on the need for Digital Skills in Irish Education at Google's Dublin HQ. A number of teachers were also invited to speak at the launch, including Ms. O'Kelly who was asked to speak about the coding initiatives implemented from 1st Year to TY in Stratford College through the European Computer Driving Licence (ECDL) curriculum. The report was featured on RTE 1 News and Radio reports.
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1st Year Computer Studies students create Raspberry Pi punnets
Ms Mahon judged the Raspberry Pi punnets made by each of the 1st Year students in Computer Studies classes during March and April. The winning designs are used to package the Raspberry Pi's installed in the computer lab.
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Three groups of TY students competed at the SciFest@College level of the competition in the Institute of Technology, Blanchardstown on Wednesday, 4th May. Two of the groups entered Scratch projects into the Intermediate Technology competition and the third group entered their Mindfulness project into the Intermediate Science section of the competition.
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Stratford’s Computer Studies teaching and learning highlighted by ICS Skills and Trinity
On Thursday, 21st April, Ms O'Kelly was invited to speak at the annual Irish Computer Society (ICS) Skills Training Conference about teaching and learning in Stratford's Computer Studies classes. On the same topic on Friday, 13th May, Ms O'Kelly will speak at the inaugural ‘21st Century School of Distinction’ Awards Ceremony and Showcase organised by Trinity College and hosted in Google.
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Tech Week 2016: TY students listen to talk about “IT is not just for geeks”
As part of Tech Week 2016, Lisa D'Arcy and Colette Talbot, employees of Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) and representing CWIT (Connecting Women in Technology) gave a talk about "IT is not just for geeks" to the TY Computer Studies class on 19th April.
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Tech Week 2016: Fun with Google Cardboard and Makey, Makey!
In Computer Studies classes during Tech Week (18th - 22nd April) and at our Coderdojo@lunch club on Tuesday's, students had great fun exploring the Virtual Reality world afforded by Google Cardboard, while playing celery sticks and oranges to make music through a Makey, Makey!
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1st Year Science students donated money to Stand for Trees organisation
On Monday, 18th April the 1st Year Science students collected money amongst themselves to donate to the Stand for Trees organisation.
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