Students encouraged to take part in Tech Week
Ireland’s national festival of technology is back next week from May 11th-18th with events taking place right across the country throughout the week. Tech Week aims to light up young imaginations, spark an interest in technology and related study and shine a light on future careers in STEM. Tech Week is sponsored by Amazon Web Services (AWS) and is supported by the SFI Discover programme.
You can learn all about Tech Week 2019 by visiting www.techweek.ie, facebook.com/techweekirl and following @TechWeekIRL on Twitter. Tech Week provides hands-on opportunities to learn about how computing and related technology are shaping every area of life. The aim of the week is to stimulate thinking around future opportunities for study and careers in technology, through learning in the wider areas of science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM) subjects.
Now in its sixth year, Tech Week has quickly gained momentum, with schools, teachers, and local communities finding new and creative ways to help students engage with technology in their local area.
School students will be challenged on their computational thinking skills at the National Bebras final in NUI Maynooth on May 11th and coding projects will be showcased by school children in the Scratch Programming Final in UL on May 15th.