Building a two string guitar, discovering what sound is, exploring how we manipulate sound to communicate through speech or music and imagining an insightful and informative graphic description of how the strings on a guitar move when plucked was what filled the minds of our Group 1 students this morning while the other filled the air with created tracks including using synthesised sampling. A…
The world of coding, making video games and creating music using circuits was the offering this morning with Film workshops added in. Apparently one group are going to make some sort of music video tomorrow….watch this space! Lake swimming, rounders, maths workshops, more Chuck challenges including a microscopic camera examining patterns in nature. We also created a virtual reality…
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…
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…
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…
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…
With Valentine’s Day fast approaching, it is not surprising that love is the main topic of conversation and indeed how real love is found or stumbled upon! How we choose and select partners and finally or immediately ‘fall in love’ can follow an array of patterns of twists and turns. The roller coaster of romance is hard to quantify; defining…
In addition to our Summer Camps and Programmes at Kylemore Abbey and Killary Adventure Centre, we are opening a new Summer Camp with a focus on Aviation at Glenstal Abbey in June. SUMMER CAMPS 2017 Connemara Maths Academy Summer Camp 2015 Glenstal Abbey, County Limerick June 28th – July 5th 2015 Ages: 13-17 Pricing & Bookings Connemara…
Connemara Maths Academy at the request of parents have now introduced Science onto the curriculum and we are proud and honoured to have award winning and vastly experienced teacher Chuck Delpier on the team. Junior Certificate students can now avail of maths and science on all our courses. Offering Science is the next logical step for CMA and we are looking…