An Irish Martial Arts Academy Open event will take place at the Bush Post Primary School in Riverstown on Sunday August 9th.
The event is open to all styles and associations and is being run by Dundalk man Eamon Lawlor.
Registration on the day takes place from 8.30am to 10am with further details available by contacting Eamon on 083 1031445 or by emailing irishmaa@rocketmail.com
Volunteers are being sought for a Special Olympics North Leinster Track and Field event in the Bush Post Primary School on Saturday May 16th.
One of the first Special Olympics events to be held in Louth for many years, Special Olympics Leinster are looking to put together a team of people to ensure the event is run to a high standard.
The recruitment of this team will begin with a Volunteer Information Evening on Monday from 7-8.30pm in the Bush.
Volunteers with all types of skills are required so if you can help pop along to the Bush on Monday night or call Patrick O’Reilly on 01 629 6999 or 087 9391896. Alternatively you can email patrick.oreilly@specialolympics.ie
Rachael collecting her award from Minister for Education Jan O’Sullivan
St Vincent’s Secondary School student Rachael Ní Dhonnachadha picked up the Best Individual Award at the BT Young Scientist and Technology Exhibition in Dublin on Friday.
The 16-year-old, who is in fifth year, won the award for her project ‘Brap: Boxers handwrap, preventing wrist injury in boxing.’
She was entered in the Biological and Ecological Sciences category at senior level.
Local TD Gerry Adams and Senator Mary Moran were amongst those to praise all the local entrants with participating schools from Louth including Bush Post Primary School, Coláiste Rís, De La Salle College, Dundalk Grammar School, O Fiaich College, Our Lady’s College Drogheda and St Vincent’s.
The overall award went to Ian Sullivan and Eimear Murphy from Kanturk in Co Cork for their project on teenagers’ alcohol consumption.
Louth students cross the generation gap with app innovations
Lisa McGowan from Scoil Uí Mhuirí, Dunleer, Co Louth; older participant Pat Kilboy from Blackrock, Co Louth; Barrett Akpotor from St Oliver’s Community College, Drogheda; and Nadine Weldon from Scoil Uí Mhuirí, at Dundalk Institute of Technology
Transition-year students from four schools in Louth have been involved in a unique project with adults in the region to come up with prototypes for four mobile apps that aim to cross the inter-generational divide.
The SANDPiT project involved 40 transition-year students and nine adults aged in their in their 60s and 70s who worked together to co-design the apps.
The group showcased their innovations at Dundalk Institute of Technology on Friday.
The apps include an emotional well-being app, an inter-generational quiz app, a community security app, and a ‘Don’t Panic’ app to get help for the elderly quickly following a fall.
The project was run by Louth VEC and the Casala applied research centre at DKIT. Casala’s Dr Julie Doyle, who specialises in human computer interaction research, worked with the group during a series of workshops that were held over nine months.
The Louth students hail from Scoil Uí Mhuirí in Dunleer; St Oliver’s Community College in Drogheda; O’Fiach College in Dundalk; and Bush Post Primary School in Cooley. They worked with the adults to develop the apps to prototype stage.
“We mixed up the generations on the teams and it was wonderful to see how they interacted,” said Doyle.
She said that when older people are using apps, aspects such as contrast, colour and text size need particular attention.
“Our plan is to have the more relevant projects developed into fully fledged apps and a number of DKIT students will be working on this during the summer,” added Doyle.
The project has also been shortlisted for an EU GoAct award for best practice in inter-generational learning.
Source: Silicon Republic
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