Recent activities in CALMAST
Mathematics and the Arts at Bridges Galway 2026
Mathematics and the Arts at Bridges Galway 2026 The Maths Week Ireland team was delighted to attend the Bridges Conference at University of Galway over the weekend. Hundreds of people from all over the world attended, and we showed them Mary Boole’s Curve Stitching activity that uses straight lines [...]
STEAM Square at Spraoi International Streets Arts Festival 2026
STEAM Square at Spraoi International Street Arts Festival 2026 A great weekend at Spraoi International Street Arts Festival 🎉 Over the August bank holiday weekend, our incredible team of volunteers, including volunteers from EU-CONEXUS, joined together with the Physics Buskers to transform Waterford's Cathedral Square into STEAM Square for [...]
Maths Puzzles at Clonmel Junction Arts Festival 2026
Maths Puzzles at Clonmel Junction Arts Festival 2026 We spent a day in the sun at Clonmel Junction Arts Festival on 11 July 2026, sharing the fun of maths through puzzles! A huge thank you to everyone who stopped by to put their critical thinking skills to the test, [...]
Full Circle with Calmast
A full circle moment with Calmast as we inspiring the next generation of Scientists 🧪 During our SETU STEM Access Programme earlier this year, Kate Phelan (PhD Candidate at SETU) took a trip down memory lane as a facilitator with her old primary school. The STEM Primary Access Programme [...]
Ideas to Impact | SETU STEM Entrepreneurship Camp
SETU STEM Entrepreneurship Camp The SETU STEM Entrepreneurship Camp took place from the 8th – 12th June 2026 at SETU in Waterford. 34 students from Wexford, Tipperary, Waterford, Kilkenny and Carlow came together to develop a business project based on the theme of sustainability. The week was comprised of [...]
Science Communication and Public Engagement Workshop
Science Communication and Public Engagement workshop Yesterday we held the first Science Communication and Public Engagement workshop with Postgrads and Postdocs at South East Technological University in Waterford. A big thank you to Sheila Donegan (CALMAST) and Padraig Murphy (DCU) for delivering this session on how to communicate scientific [...]