Day 4&5 Its been such a great week with a great group! Ringo Rides, Kayaking, Chuck Challenges, Sky Fall, High Ropes, Cliff Jumps & Wall Climbimb were among the highlights of the last two days. Images and video to follow… We’ll miss this group and hope to see them again. A big thank you to all our wonderful teachers Mark,…
The day started with beautiful clear blue skies and a very warm sun shining over a stunning Glenstal Abbey and everyone got ready for maths workshops, rounders, Music Technology in the morning sessions followed by a hike to the waterfall after another fabulous lunch. After everyone got back to the Abbey it was Chuck’s turn to go completely Chemical with a…
Students today were Kayaking on the River Shannon, exploring flight related maths concepts, landing Boeing 737s at Atlantic AerVenture in Shannon Town, visiting the Aviation Museum, learning about flying and the aviation industry from Pilots and industry professionals, writing great music tracks with musician and producer Cian from CreateSounds.ie and playing football and basketball…all in one day! If you don’t…
Its hard to believe that our last night on our summer camp for this week has finally arrived! What a week. Today was about learning how the magic of film lies in the lens and computer in your head. Imagination, discipline, editing, logging, planning and organising are key and students did themselves proud with two wonderful short films, full of humour, dark wit and…
This morning was all about film, lenses, virtual realities, 360 degree cameras (see above), graphs, sine waves, making waves swimming in lakes, ellipses and circles and Pythagoras among other things! Sinead Herlihy was on hand to explore coding to compose music and other scratch related innovations! Film maker Eamonn Dunne was with students this morning prepping for their movie production…
We all woke up to the news that the UK had voted to leave the EU. There was a stunned silence in the common room as we caught up with the BBC news. Our students from Belgium, Italy, France, Ukraine, Italy, Poland, UK and Ireland were all in agreement that something insane had just happened but life goes on and we…
After Ireland’s wonderful victory last night against Italy, what better way to celebrate than making some home made beats in Music Technology with Conan which was another thoroughly enjoyable workshop. Students explored frequencies and filters which they’ll look at again later with Mark and Caoimhe in the maths workshops. Here are a sample of the sound tracks students created… Sailing followed…
It was a sunny morning and the birds were singing at Kylemore Abbey, the perfect start to a hair raising morning on the Giant Swing and High Ropes! The birds weren’t the only ones singing this eve…..but that’s another story! The birds weren’t the only things singing tonight! #Connemara #Maths Academy #SummerCamp at #KylemoreAbbey pic.twitter.com/4yCRQpySwk — SUMMER CAMPS (@project_maths) June…
A bright enough start to the day, first up was using Boolean Logic and programming algorithms to control the robots students had built and ready to take part in the War of the Robots! Some very competitive stuff going on… After a hectic battle we retired to the dining room for lunch and then on to Mark’s brilliant Maths Workshops…
Day 1 Students arrived this evening for the first day of our Summer Camp at Kylemore Abbey and we couldn’t have asked for a nicer bunch! Josie made a wonderful lasagne for all of us at 8pm in the library and then Paul Passenard from Clifden Boat club guided us through the principles of sailing and how boats work. Students…