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🌟 Empowering Young Minds to Think Like Scientists 🌟

We’re thrilled to share the highlights from our first workshop in the Try Five+ series with primary school students! 🎉 We kicked off with a fun and...
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🌟 Exploring Ecosystems: From Earth to Space! 🌟

“How can we build an ecosystem like Earth’s in space to provide essential resources for astronauts?” Driven by this question, students delved into the science of...
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🌟Sparkling Innovations: Stars and Electronics🌟

Who knew a classroom could become a mini galaxy? That’s exactly what happened when during our “Stars and Electronics” workshop, where imagination met science in...
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The Sustainable Space Explorers! 🌬️⚡

In our fourth Try Five+ workshop, students explored the exciting world of electromagnetism and renewable energy. We built a working wind turbine and discovered how to generate clean...
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Ready to Blast off! 🚀📏

In our final Try Five+ workshop of 2024–2025, students reached for the skies—literally! We wrapped up the series with an exciting journey into the world...
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SPACEFEST 2025 

Technological University Dublin’s Access and Outreach Service recently hosted SPACEFest at the Grangegorman campus, an exciting extension of the STEAM: Try Five + program, funded...
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🌟 2025-2026 Women in Space Poster Competition🚀

As part of the Try Five+ project, we were so excited to welcome our talented young STEAMers, teachers, and parents to TU Dublin Grangegorman for this year’s Women...
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🇮🇪 International Exchange with HZNU, China 🇨🇳

🇮🇪🇨🇳We recently welcomed colleagues from Hangzhou Normal University (HZNU)(杭州师范大学) to TU Dublin for an international exchange focused on sharing insights into STEM education through our STEAM:...
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✨🌛Secret of Moon Phases: Make a 🌞🌍🌕 Model

Does the moon produce its own light? Why do we see different shapes of the moon in a month? In our first Try Five+ workshop...
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✨2025-2026: Think like a scientist & microscopy🔬

We are so excited to start another year of Try Five+ with our new coordinator Qingxiang Yang, and both 4th and 5th class! Our first...
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✨2025-2026: Make a Terrarium 🌳

For this workshop with 4th class, we brought the outdoors inside – to build an ecosystem in a Jar. 🌱 We began with learning key...
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✨✨2025-2026: Star Projector

💫 💫 With nearly 14 days of darkness on the Moon, what would scientists need in order to live and work there? The answer, of...
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⚡⚡2025-2026: Build a Wind Turbine

In this workshop, we explored the renewable energy 🍃 and discovered how science powers the world around us 🌍⚡ We began by understanding what renewable...
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🚀🚀2025-2026: Rocket Science

We started by exploring Newton’s Third Law: for every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction ⚛️. To make this idea easier to understand,...
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🏆🏆2025-2026 Try Five+ Showcase

What a fantastic way to celebrate the end of the Try Five+ journey! Students from participating schools came together to present the innovative projects they had...
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🦾🦾Build a Mechanical Arm

🛰️ How to maintain and repair the space station safely? A mechanical arm can help astronauts complete tasks remotely. In the workshop with 5th class, Try...
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🤖🤖Mars Rover — Explore Coding

How do computers and robots know what to do? It all starts with coding — giving clear instructions step by step! 💻🤖In our last workshop...
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