Secondary Schools

Join the Dream Space Team for an exciting LIVE virtual event exploring the vast and ever-evolving world of engineering.

Students will hear from engineers working across a range of different industries, roles, and specialisations as they share their journeys, challenges, and the paths that led them to where they are today. With a live Q&A and hands-on STEM and coding activities requiring no prior experience or special materials, students will see first-hand how engineering is at the heart of innovation, creativity, and real-world problem-solving.

Learning Outcomes:

• Exploring the World of Engineering: Students will discover how engineering plays a role in everything from designing new technology to tackling global challenges.
• Meet Real Engineers: A live Q&A will give students insight into diverse career paths, breaking down myths about engineering.
• Problem-Solving & Creativity in STEM: Engaging challenges will help students think like engineers, designing solutions to real-world problems.
• Engineering in Action: Interactive STEM and coding tasks will highlight how engineers use technology to create, innovate, and solve problems.

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The Story of Water - 46 minutes

The documentary focuses on the critical value of our most precious natural resource and explores the ongoing threats to its future. It seeks to educate and inform; with a range of contributions from engineers, scientists and consumers. It explores the development and current state of Ireland’s public water network, with a unique perspective on the ongoing national project to upgrade the country’s drinking water supply and wastewater treatment, and the role we all have to play in conservation.

Visit Uisce Éireann's website to access.                       
Access the YouTube playlist.            

Educational Resources

Uisce Éireann has additional resources available that are relevant to the documentary and Water education available on www.water.ie/education, including The Story of Water Activity Booklet, videos, quizzes and worksheets and more. Links to An Taisce and Scoilnet resources are also available. 

Scoilnet Educational Resources

Uisce Éireann’s educational resources are available on Scoilnet, to help students learn all about water in a fun and engaging way with videos, fun activities, and support material.  Check out the resources at Scoilnet resources.

How would you build a new railway to join the residents of the town to a city? Your task is to choose the best route through all the obstacles, thinking about how your choice will affect the company, environment and community.

Play the new online game here!

The ‘Role Models in pSTEM: You can be what you can see’ project was created to highlight positive role models for young women in the subjects of physics, mathematics, computer science and engineering.

Meet Sharon McManus 

Sharon McManus is an engineer officer of Commandant rank in the Irish Defence Forces. After joining the army in 1996 and completing an army officer cadetship, she completed a BEng in NUIG in Civil Engineering. She is currently on a Masters programme in the defence forces, studying for an MA in Leadership and Management in Defence. This qualification will allow her to compete for promotion to potentially become the first Lieutenant Colonel in any of the defence force services. Her work has taken her far and wide with overseas missions to Liberia and Kosovo in 2006, Chad in 2010 and most recently to Lebanon.

Watch Sharon's Video here. For more information, visit the website.