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Thank you so much to Mark, Bianca & Natasha of the team for organising our 2024 network meeting!

Great discussions again this year at our national network meeting in Technological University of the Shannon, Athlone it is always a pleasure for our team coordinators to spend time together!


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Lovely pictures of our Fantastic DNA workshop by our young guests from Brubhride Youthproject for family day last weekend.
Thank you for visiting us!!!

Meet our amazing Ambassadors Phu & Xilia who hosted 35 guests from Tuam Bru Bhríde WTID community for a VIP STEM experience on Saturday 2nd March.

Our young guests received bookings to Fantastic DNA, a physics show, free time & lunch! They liked it so much they even registered to an extra « slime » workshop. At the end of the day our guests left with a Cell Explorers goodie bag to be able to do Fantastic DNA at home. Thank you so much for attending, it was a pleasure to host you!

Thank you Phu & xilia for giving your time so that the event could run smoothly.
The day was organised by Kristin Anderson in collaboration with Mary from Bru Bhríde-Primary Health Care Bru and the organisers of the Engineering week family fun day.

This event is supported by our funded GROWS project.
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Congratulations to our University of Galway team! Led by Anna, they ran 5 Fantastic DNA workshops for the family fun day! More than 150 young people engaged by the amazing work of 8 brilliant facilitators including long lasting & brand new members!
Thank you Aoife, Áine, Anna, Xinyi, Emma, Tara, Angeline, and Manuela!

Join us for the free to celebrate on Sat 3 Mar from 10am–4pm in the Alice Perry Engineering Building at .

You will meet Anna and her team and have a chance to prepare DNA like biomedical engineers do!

All details available & booking links in our Bio. Please share with families who migth want to take part.

The day is organised by the school of engineering at the university of Galway, in association with ConstructInnovate and

We usually train every new recruit at Fantastic DNA as a first practical activity training.
This training has been run by the fantabulous Kate this semester through 4 or 5 sessions. Here are few pictures of the training of the project students!

Special thanks to the team behind the scene recruiting and training new members: Kate, Clara, Katie, SarahBeth, Kristin, shannon, Talia, Muriel. It is sometimes tricky to schedule and can be time consuming but it is essential to our activities.

This semester, 4 final year project students have been busy working within our team at revising, developing, initiating online training modules for different aspects of our programme.

Eloise and Emily are BSc genomics and genetics students, Chelsie is a BSc biotechnology student and Robyn is a BSc biochemistry student.
In addition of working on modules they are also involved in-the delivery pf Fantastic DNA or the Science Club to better appreciate the context of use of the module.

We are very lucky to have you all in pur team!

Meet the 24 wonderful 2nd year biomedical students who are delivering our science club to 6 different youth group as part-of their community knowledge initiative module this semester at !

After their training by Sarah-Beth and Kristin, they went on delivering this 5 weeks programme ending soon. Thanks so much for the good work with young people in Galway!

The science club was designed by Dr Sarah Caroll in collaboration with Megan & collaborators from and .ie with funding from .

The science clubs delivery is part of the GROWS project funded by the Medtronic Foundation.

Meet the Cell Explorers who represented at 2024 ! led by this team of Science Role model engage 400 members of the public in hands on science with Fantastic DNA & in chats about studying & practicing science.
Thank you volunteering Aoife, Mia, Sravani, leanna, Xinyi and Katie for your awesome volunteering work!

Join Kinderbüro Universität Wien & Cell Explorers for a free practical training on how to plan, run and deliver socially-inclusive science public engagement for children.
Learn more & register at
https://forms.office.com/e/xBdPAEEtmk

Anyone is welcome to join, no experience necessary.
Two identical sessions will take place on March 11th from 1-4pm & March 12th from 10-1pm at the University of Galway.

We have been shortlisted for Outreach Initiative of the year at the .

Shannon is flying the Cell Explorers flag at ceremony in Liverpool. Lovely to see her with Eimear a postgraduate fellow and team member!

Shannon is an funded PhD researcher in our research group, a Final Year undergraduate project alumna & part of the coordination team. No better representative than her!

Eimear is a volunteer. SHe kept the Galway team going during the COVID19 year delivering many session from Naples during her research work there! She is attending the ceremony with her supervisor nominated for best supervisor prize

Enjoy the night whatever happen!

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Watch ‘Fantastic DNA-Science is for everyone’ a documentary on our flagship activity!
Dive into its content & impact through the eyes & experience of our inspiring facilitators & witness the impact of our programme!
https://youtu.be/cG2lcnhjzBg

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Fantastic DNA - Science is for everyone, by Cell Explorers Discover Fantastic DNA, the Cell Explorers flagship session, during which young people work as scientists under the guidance of Cell Explorers facilitators i...

This wee box, packed with experiments, is both Irish and in space! Congratulations to the EirSat-1 team!

We had a great time meeting 452 young people & their families for Galway Science & Technology Festival exhibition day this year! We had a team of 43 OUTSTANDING University of Galway volunteers! Thanks to all!

Read about it here!

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Successful Cell Explorers participation to Galway Science & Technology Festival family day 2023! Model teeny tiny cells, Prepare DNA from Banana and Run experiments to save Ireland from a new pandemic – this is just fraction of what enthusiastic mini scientists and their families could do at the Cell EXPLORERS workshops at this year’s Exhibition Day November 12th at University of Galway, as...

Youth Work Ireland Galway: Community Youth Worker x 3 Posts will be based in Westside in Galway City (x2) & in Tuam in Galway County (x1). The successful candidates will be expected to plan, deliver and report on programmes for young people aged between 10 and 24 years of age. Part-time hours may be considered.

Congratuations to the young at St Pat's Galway for completing Fantastic DNA with the online support of Sarah-Beth & Nora from our University of Galway team!
Thank you 6th class teachers for requesting Fantastic DNA in a Box as part of Galway Science & Technology Festival!

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Cell Explorers at Munster Technological University recently hosted Fantastic DNA workshops at the Kerry Science Festival Family Showcase day and brought the show on the road to local national schools of Abbeydorney National School, Blennerville National School and Scoil Nuachabháil as part of Science Foundation Ireland National Science Week 2023. We had a great time meeting over 264 young students and marvelling at extracted DNA from many bananas. Thank you to the teachers and 6th class volunteers in helping us share knowledge and demonstrating DNA extraction to the younger classes.

Our Munster Technological University in Kerry took Fantastic DNA to 3 schools duringKerry Science Festival? Congratulations to the 264 6th class young Cell Explorers!

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Cell Explorers at Munster Technological University recently hosted Fantastic DNA workshops at the Kerry Science Festival Family Showcase day and brought the show on the road to local national schools of Abbeydorney National School, Blennerville National School and Scoil Nuachabháil as part of Science Foundation Ireland National Science Week 2023. We had a great time meeting over 264 young students and marvelling at extracted DNA from many bananas. Thank you to the teachers and 6th class volunteers in helping us share knowledge and demonstrating DNA extraction to the younger classes.

Today is the day to prepare Fantastic DNA in Tralee for the Kerry Science Festival with our Munster Technological University Kerry team!

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✨Today’s the day✨

Come along to the MTU STEM Open Day!!

Great work by our Dundalk Institute of Technology Cell Explorers team!
Thank you for hosting us Louth Library Service!
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Congratulations!

Join our Munster Technological University kerry team To prepare Fantastic DNA at the Kerry Science Festival on the 18th of November. Science Week Ireland Science Foundation Ireland

📢Science Week Has Officially Begun📢

We are very excited for the fun-filled week ahead of Kerry Science Festival events and activities!

Workshops are filling up fast so make sure to book your spot.
👉Book here: https://shorturl.at/FQ013