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,…
Exploring Coordinate Geometry with coding and maths workshops this morning kept everyone very busy and eventually hungry for lunch and ready for a hike to the waterfall and a swim in the lake. What could be better! Evening sessions included discovering how Virtual reality works with smartphones, plastic and cardboard and using 360 Degree Camera to shoot video and take…
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…
From Flying Boeing 737s to writing music tracks with a bit hurling and tennis to conclude proceedings today was a great day! Aeronautical Engineer and Pilot Andrew from Atlantic Air Venture shared some excellent insights into with world of Aeronautical Engineering while Paul Kennedy took time from his very busy schedule in the industry of Plane Maintenance to open…
We all woke up to a very warm and sunny day with temperatures hitting 30 degrees this afternoon. A morning exploring squares and demonstrating how squares are related to right angled triangles (Pythagoras’s Theorem) with Rope, Duck Tape and 25 students. Film scripts were written and a great lunch was had. The warm afternoon air was filled with the schhwaff…
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…
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…
As the mist rolled in over the mountains surrounding beautiful Kylemore Abbey after another packed day, there was a sense of sadness that we would have to say goodbye to such a wonderful group of students. The day began with the rain lifting as we headed off to the dining room for another one of Josie’s great breakfasts. The morning Film…