The Limerick Celebrate Science Festival was a great success on Saturday15th November. Children of all ages enjoyed a series of physics experiments during the science busking session in the Milk Market. The Celebrate Science festival continued at the Hunt Museum where the general public enjoyed an afternoon of science demonstrations, experiments and workshops including food, technology, nanotechnology, robotics, crystallography, aerospace, software, altitude, lego and many more.

Quentin Bragard (Lero@UCD)

“It was great to see so many families coming into the city to enjoy and experience science during Science Week”, said Clare McInerney, Lero/UL coordinator for Limerick Celebrate Science. “We were delighted to see such a large turnout at the festival”.

The Limerick Celebrate Science Event culminated in a Pub Science event at the Locke Bar on Saturday evening. Eleven researchers and scientists from the University of Limerick gave 5 minute presentations about their work including “Fly me to the moon”, “What language do you speak”, “Dying to Live” “Bad glue makes good nanomachines”, “Above the clouds” and “Why do bubbles in Guinness sink?”

Limerick Celebrate Science festival is funded by SFI Discover and involves researchers from the following centres at the University of Limerick: Lero – the Irish Software Research Centre, SSPC – Synthesis and Solid State Pharmaceutical Centre, MACI- Mathematics Applications Consortium for Science and Industry, the National Altitude Training Centre, the National Centre for Excellence in Mathematics and Science Teaching and Learning and the Faculty of Science and Engineering.