Work Experience

During my TY experience so far we have been doing work experience every Wednesday. My work experience for this term is in Maynooth University in the Chemistry department. Every morning I go in with my neighbor Anne as she works there. Every week I would help set up the first years experiments and if we have time I get to try out the experiment for myself.I manage to spill things everyweek. Sometimes I have to do some mundane jobs too like photo coping and cutting TLC plates. Its good to get out of the school for one day a week as I am sick of that place for the past three years, and looking at the pretty college boys is a plus. 

  

                                  The Web Summit Dublin 2015

I and a few others from my school (including the web team) were lucky enough to be able to attend the last Web Summit that will be held in Dublin. 

From now it will be on in Lisbon, Portugal. We attended the talks that were on in the evening for schools. There were thousands of students there from all over the country. 

First the CEO of the web summit came on stage and welcomed us all and gave us the basic information on the Web Summit.

Then an American man came out to talk about how he used horseshoe crabs to help fight cancer and how he started his research when he was very close to our age.

After that a man came out to tell us about his charity he started called Charity Water. He started the charity when he was in his twenties and has raised so much money for third world countries so far. He encouraged everybody to donate their next birthday to Charity Water.

Then two little girls came out to talk about how they make a device to defend themselves against Bullying called BullyBug. It us a bracelet that you wear that has a button on it that you can press if you are being bullied and it will notify your teacher. They were very innovative for small people 

They were the main points that were on at the Web Summit 2015!

     Horseshoe Crabs                                                                                        

 -Slayyyy

Transition Year So Far

Helloooo, my name is Tara and this Blog is going to be about my Transition Year experience. So far Transition Year has been good. We have gone on trips like to Kilkenny for an exhibition on the company cartoon saloon and into town to see the WB Yeats exhibition and the WW1 exhibition (we also met the president!!!). We went on  weekend away to Carlingford a month ago, It was so much fun, we went kayaking and lazer tag. It was a good couple of days. 
We also go to work experience every Wednesday, I am doing my first work experience in Maynooth University in the Chemistry Department, it grand yeah i spill chemicals every week. Wellll thats basically been my TY experience so far!!!!---SLAYYYY