Irish Science Teachers' Association Conference 

Yesterday, members of the team travelled to National University of Ireland, Galway to speak at the Irish Science Teachers' Association Annual Conference. 

The prestigious event is open to all members of the Irish Science Teachers' Association and is in its fifty second year. Keynote speakers included Professor Martyn Poilakoff (University of Nottingham), Professor Jim Al-Khalili (University of Surrey), Professor Elaine Fox (University of Oxford) and many more. The conference began on Friday the 11th of April where European Commissioner for Research, Innovation and Science Marie Geoghegan Quinn gave an opening address. 

Candroid briefly spoke about the project to a lecture theatre full of science teachers. We outlined the project, our primary and secondary mission and our outreach programme. We also displayed data from the Regional and National Competition. We finished by highlighting the benefits of participating in CanSat and told the teachers where they can keep up to date with all of our activities. 

It was a wonderful opportunity to broadcast our project on a national scale and it was important to us that we involved the educators of our country in the project. 

Thank you to ESERO Ireland and the Irish Science Teachers' Association. 

By Tayyaba & Hugh