AWARD-winning science outreach centre CALMAST has arranged an action-packed south-east science festival, with events planned throughout Waterford and Wexford.

MORE than 2,500 people from the south-east revelled in this year’s Bealtaine Festival of Outdoor Science, a week-long event which saw them embrace the great outdoors.

FORMER student of Waterford Institute of Technology Michael Campion is to address school students at Waterford’s third annual Engineering Week which begins today.

CHILDREN need to get a more practical and fun understanding of maths if their performance at the subject is to improve, an expert has claimed.

LEAVING Certificate results underline the need for a more creative approach to engage young people in the promotion of maths and science, it was emphasised yesterday.

IRISH teams shared in two of Europe’s most prestigious awards for work in the field of science in Brussels yesterday.

IRELAND’S new focus on science in our schools augers well for the country and will help forge links with some of the world’s leading economies, maths experts say.

THE increased number of Junior Certificate students taking higher level maths and the improvement in results at ordinary and foundation level in the subject has been welcomed as an “encouraging” sign by Eoin Gill, joint manager of CALMAST, the Centre for the Advancement of Learning of Maths, Science and Technology.

SOME of the south-east’s brightest sparks are Korea-bound next month to fly the European flag at one of the world’s most coveted science events.

CHILDREN nationwide are being given a unique opportunity to prove they are a “glass act”.

A SCIENCE magazine aimed at children aged between 8-12 and produced by two academics at Waterford Institute of Technology has scooped a coveted award.