This year from November 9th to 20th, Cork Science Festival will deliver numerous workshops and shows to over 2,500 students in classrooms and venues all over Cork while over 5,000 are expected to visit the two day exhibition (Sat 14th & Sun 15th) at Cork City Hall. All this activity and excitement make Cork Science Festival one of the main partners of Science Week Ireland and one of the biggest events in the Irish science calendar.

WHAT do making rockets and robots, gaming, 3D, animation, teddy hacking, astronauts — even a portable planetarium and Mega Molecules — have in common? Discovery 2011.

NOT too much shock but plenty of awe was in evidence as schoolchildren taking part in Science Week got to see, hear and touch a range of exotic creatures.

MAGIC wands, football games played with the brain and fossils from millions of years ago are drawing gasps of wonder from children at a Science Week event in Cork city.

Science Week will be launched in Dublin today by the Science Minister Conor Lenihan.

MORE than 3,000 primary school students have this week been engaging with the wonders of science at the University of Limerick.

A YOUNG woman who scored the highest mark in this year’s Leaving Cert physics exam urged students yesterday to embrace science.

THE use of science in our everyday lives will be demonstrated in hundreds of events during Science Week 2006 starting on Sunday.

More than 7,500 primary and secondary pupils have attended events at Science week at Waterford IT.

The Minster for Enterprise, Trade and Employment, Micheál Martin, has said the Government will continue to invest in science innovation because of its benefits to the economy.

The Tánaiste, Mary Harney, has said funding for scientific research will be increased in next week's Book of Estimates.