Projects in Galway Education Centre

Each year a number of different projects that support education are overseen by Galway Education Centre. These projects include:

Write A Book & Scríobh Leabhar Projects

The Write a book Project enables primary school children to become real authors as they create their own books by actively engaging in the processes of writing, composing, constructing, designing, illustrating and presenting their work to a wide audience.

Write a Book, Galway Education Centre's booking writing competition for National School pupils At the Radisson Blu saw hundreds of Children awarded for their Writing Skill.<br />
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Galway Education Centre's Scriobh Leabhair at the Radisson Blu hotel where national school pupil wrote and Illustrated their own books. Photo:Andrew Downes, xposure.

Scriobh Leabhair , Galway Education Centre's booking writing competition for National School pupils At the Radisson Blu saw hundreds of Children awarded for their Writing Skills<br />
. Photo:Andrew Downes, xposure

The Galway Education Centre kicked off its annual Education Extravaganza with the 11th annual Write A Book Awards ceremony. All of the children attending have composed, written, illustrated and bound their own individual books. Photo: Andrew Downes.

First Lego League Junior

A robotics challenge for 6 – 9 year olds, held in only 14 countries worldwide. We organise the teacher training, ongoing support and the final exhibition each year

Raheen NS with one of their projects at the Jnr Lego League organized through schools by the Galway Education Centre at The Radisson blu hotel<br />
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Raheen NS Scoil Naomh Cuan with one of their projects at the Jnr Lego League organized through schools by the Galway Education Centre at The Radisson blu hotel<br />
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Raheen NS S with one of their projects at the Jnr Lego League organized through schools by the Galway Education Centre at The Radisson blu hotel<br />
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Mounbellew NS with one of their projects at the Jnr Lego League organized through schools by the Galway Education Centre at The Radisson blu hotel<br />
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Boleybeg NS at the Jnr Lego League organized through schools by the Galway Education Centre at The Radisson blu hotel<br />
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Claddagh NS at the Jnr Lego League organized through schools by the Galway Education Centre at The Radisson blu hotel<br />
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Gardenfield NS at the Jnr Lego League organized through schools by the Galway Education Centre at The Radisson blu hotel<br />
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Merlin Woods NS at the Jnr Lego League organized through schools by the Galway Education Centre at The Radisson blu hotel<br />
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Gaelscoil Mhic Amhlaigh NS at the Jnr Lego League organized through schools by the Galway Education Centre at The Radisson blu hotel<br />
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Mountbellew NS at the Jnr Lego League organized through schools by the Galway Education Centre at The Radisson blu hotel<br />
Photo: Andrew Downes, xposure

Scoil Einne NS at the Jnr Lego League organized through schools by the Galway Education Centre at The Radisson blu hotel<br />
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Scoil Bride New Inn NS at the Jnr Lego League organized through schools by the Galway Education Centre at The Radisson blu hotel<br />
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Scoil Naomh Cuan (Raheen) at the Jnr Lego League organized through schools by the Galway Education Centre at The Radisson blu hotel<br />
Photo: Andrew Downes, xposure

Carrabane NS at the Jnr Lego League organized through schools by the Galway Education Centre at The Radisson blu hotel<br />
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FUN GAMES AND DANCING with MC Paul Sleem at the Jnr Lego League organized through schools by the Galway Education Centre at The Radisson blu hotel<br />
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Primary Debating Competition

The Galway Primary Debating Competition has been coordinated by Galway Education Centre for a number of years. Its aim is to encourage the use of debating as a learning tool for senior primary school classes.

Other Projects

A number of other projects and programmes take place in Galway Education Centre throughout the year. A sample of these can be seen in the images below.

Feather and Bean bag play by pupils from Claddagh NS who participated in the celebration of Chinese culture and language at the Galway Education Centre. The centre has collaborated with the UCD Confucius Institute of Ireland to provide Mandarin lessons for a number of primary schools in Galway city. Photo:Andrew Downes

National Mini Sumo Robot Championship.<br />
Robot Sumo which is a sport where two Robots (SumoBots) compete to push each other out of a circle. <br />
The engineering challenge for the students is to design a Robot that will firstly identify its opponent before hunting it down, targeting it and attacking it successfully, surviving all the while. <br />
The competition challenges second level students to design, build and program robots capable of competing autonomously. Now however, with the help of Professional Development Service for Teachers, The Galway Education Centre is proud to offer a competition to inspire a future generation of engineers, technologists and programmers.<br />
Photo:Andrew Downes

Ireland trailblazes with first ever Irish Junior Mini Sumo Robot Tournament.The Galway Education Centre on the west coast of Ireland, hosted Irish students from all over the country and led the way as they competed in the inaugural Irish Junior Mini Sumo Robot Tournament - the first tournament of its kind in either Ireland or the UK.

Skippers from Claddagh National school who participated in the celebration of Chinese culture and language at the Galway Education Centre. The centre has collaborated with the UCD Confucius Institute of Ireland to provide Mandarin lessons for a number of primary schools in Galway city. Photo:Andrew Downes

Pupils from Claddagh National school who participated in the celebration of Chinese culture and language at the Galway Education Centre. The centre has collaborated with the UCD Confucius Institute of Ireland to provide Mandarin lessons for a number of primary schools in Galway city. Photo:Andrew Downes

Using Chop Sticks pupil from Claddagh National school who participated in the celebration of Chinese culture and language at the Galway Education Centre. The centre has collaborated with the UCD Confucius Institute of Ireland to provide Mandarin lessons for a number of primary schools in Galway city. Photo:Andrew Downes

Trying out Caliigraphy pupils from Claddagh National school who participated in the celebration of Chinese culture and language at the Galway Education Centre. The centre has collaborated with the UCD Confucius Institute of Ireland to provide Mandarin lessons for a number of primary schools in Galway city. Photo:Andrew Downes

Pupils from Croi Naofa Athenry who took part in the Medtronic Knex Challenge at the Radisson blu Hotel. Medtronic KNEX Challenge is for primary school children completing exceptional tasks which will be judged on the level of engineering, innovation and communication displayed by the teams.. .The final event of the week is the Medtronic Junior FIRST LEGO League challenge on THURSDAY. This is the second year The Galway Education Centre has hosted this competition - one of only six countries in the world who do so. Following the success of last year, over 500 school children from all over the country are expected to come along and practice their robotics, presentation and teamwork skills live on the night!. .Bernard Kirk, Director of The Galway Education Centre says; ?Working on this three day event every year is fun and exciting and always surprising. The talent, instinct and drive we discover in these young children is an inspiration to all of us. We look forward to the continued success of all of our challenges which would not be possible without the support of companies like Medtronic, SAP, HP and LEGO?.. .All of these events are open to the public and free admission. They will also be streamed live on line at www.galwayeducationcentre.ie. Photo:Andrew Downes.

Pupilss from Lawerencetown National School who took part in the Medtronic Knex Challenge at the Radisson blu Hotel. Medtronic KNEX Challenge is for primary school children completing exceptional tasks which will be judged on the level of engineering, innovation and communication displayed by the teams.. .The final event of the week is the Medtronic Junior FIRST LEGO League challenge on THURSDAY. This is the second year The Galway Education Centre has hosted this competition - one of only six countries in the world who do so. Following the success of last year, over 500 school children from all over the country are expected to come along and practice their robotics, presentation and teamwork skills live on the night!. .Bernard Kirk, Director of The Galway Education Centre says; ?Working on this three day event every year is fun and exciting and always surprising. The talent, instinct and drive we discover in these young children is an inspiration to all of us. We look forward to the continued success of all of our challenges which would not be possible without the support of companies like Medtronic, SAP, HP and LEGO?.. .All of these events are open to the public and free admission. They will also be streamed live on line at www.galwayeducationcentre.ie. Photo:Andrew Downes.

Jessie the Barn Owl from the Burren Bird of Prey Centre at Aillwee Cave, Ballyvaughan, Co. Clare paid a visit to Kilcolgan Educate together National School, yesterday to the delight of staff and pupils. Photo:Andrew Downes . Photo:Andrew

22/10/2013 Repro free An exciting new chapter begins for some very lucky children and their teachers in Galway, Ireland today! The life changing Playworks programme will be introduced to the country for the very first time in a playground in Newcastle in the heart of the city of Galway this morning. This programme which has brought joy, security, peace and understanding to thousands of school playgrounds across the United States will today take its first steps outside of the US with the help of The Galway Education Centre, under the direction of the visionary Bernard Kirk and in partnership with Ashoka Ireland through their Change Nation initiative.<br />
Ciaran Cannon, Minister for Training & Skills at the Department of Education launched the programme and the first trained Playworks Junior Coaches<br />
. Photo:Andrew Downes Photography.

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