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Day 2 CMA SC July 23-29 2017

A glorious morning on Day 2 Connemara Maths Academy Summer Camp July 23-29 greeted us for breakfast at 8am and workshops with Chuck, James and Paul followed at 8.45.
Tunnels and Team Tasks before lunch while James, Paul and Chuck had more puzzles and challenges for them.

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Day 1 CMA Summer Camp July 23-29

First Evening on Connemara Maths Academy Summer Camp July 23-29 at Delphi!
20 new students arrived yesterday to join our remaining students and what a great group they are!
We’ve a great mixture of girls and boys from Ireland, Scotland, France, Spain, Italy and Germany this week. We’re looking forward to getting to know our new guests and to having another action packed, adrenaline fuelled programme!

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Day 6 CMA SC July 16-22

Day 6 Connemara Maths Academy Summer Camp

July 16-22
The final day before half of our students head off after a week of discovery, creativity & adventure.
This morning was all about Fibonacci, and how we incorporate his discoveries in production of movies!
Movie Awards are on this evening to see who the best actor, best actress, best director & best production are this week!
We’re looking forward to meeting all the parents tomorrow morning at 12.20 for the presentation.
Here are some of the images from today and also the Sound Tracks composed by the students from this week.



 

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Day 5 CMA Summer Camp July 16-22

Day 5 Connemara Maths Academy
Summer Camp at Delphi
July 16-22
Graham was working on coding today to control switches and of course create. Idea games while James kept the students challenged with Maths workshops. Archery before lunch followed by Adventure Activities including Archery, Zip Wire and insanely high trekking!

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Day 4 CMA Summer Camp July 16-22

Day 4 CMA Summer Camp July 16-22
Cian kept everyone in track to finish their sound tracks in Music Technology workshops while James ran Challenges and puzzles including the Pythagoras Squares.
Tunnels and Team Tasks followed by Graham’s workshops on electricity and Sine Waves.
Surfing was a big hit! Kevin and his team gave everyone the basics in 5 minutes and then it was off into the Wild Connemara Surf!

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Day 1 & 2 Summer Camp at Delphi July 16-22

Day 2 Connemara Maths Academy
Summer Camp July 16-22 at Delphi Resort

We woke up to another morning of glorious Connemara sunshine and another packed schedule of discovery, creativity & adventure with Chuck Challenges extracting carbon dioxide from three different sources (including Chuck’s car), exploring heat conduction and air pressure which involves the impossible feat of an egg effortlessly defying gravity and space while James and Paul explored probability using Archery and Paul ran a Tag Rugby session.

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Kylemore Abbey 2015 Day 1

Day 1 Yesterday evening following registration, students enjoyed a light supper in the Kylemore Abbey Dining Hall, prepared by the one and only Josie Ryan, who is looking after them so well. Indeed, the staff are spoiled too! Kylemore Abbey looks spectacular this evening. This image was taken from one of our Drones which was controlled by our fully licensed Paul Naessans.…

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CMA Scholarship Winner at Mathletes Final 2015

SOS Ventures & Mathletes Founder Séan O’Sullivan, Scholarship Winner Frans Rosti of Fingal Community College and CMA Founder & Director Aengus O’Connor. Frans Rosti received the Connemara Maths Academy Scholarship 2015 at the Mathletes Final at Dublin City University May 2nd. Connemara Maths Academy were very proud to present Frans Rosti of Fingal Community College with the 2015 Scholarship. Frans…

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Love? Its all about the Maths!

  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…

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6 Nations Second Round – What are the Chances?

  After the first round the picture of England being the strongest looking team, as we mentioned in our previous blog, is emerging. But before we get into the chances, a big shout out to Robbie Henshaw who was absolutely brilliant on Saturday! What a credit to Connacht Rugby he is. There were many great performances including O’Donnell who was superb…

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