Cruinniú na nÓg June 15th 2024 @ Siamsa Tire V92 XW44
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Running annually since 2018, Cruiniú na nÓg is a festival day consisting of a wide range of creative activities including workshops, tutorials, recitals and readings in every city, town and village across the country.
Makermeet is thrilled to be taking part again this year. We'll be running the following workshops in Siamsa Tíre in Tralee...
Make a Whirlygig!
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Participants will create a spinning “Whirlygig” - a toy invented before the industrial age. This toy can spin over 125,000RPM, and has some surprising scientific and medical uses!
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Saturday June 15 @ 11am
Ages 6 and up
Cost: FREE
Booking Required
3D Modelling
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Digital art! Learn to create models in 3D! These can be used to make a small game in 3D. This is an intro to the basis of visual effects, digital design, architectural visualisation, and game art.
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Saturday June 15 @ 2:30pm
Ages 13 and up
Cost: FREE
Booking Required
Fabulous Flight!
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Join us to make things that fly! Paper Airplane, Hoop Flyer and a Helicopter. Learn about lift, aerodynamics, and different types of resistance.
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Saturday June 15 @ 12:30pm
Ages 4 and up
Cost: FREE
Booking Required
2D Animation
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Join us to create an animation in 2D. The path to becoming an animator starts HERE! Characters, drawings, images and more can be created, manipulated and made to jump through hoops!
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Saturday June 15 @ 4pm
Ages 10 and up
Cost: FREE
Booking Required
Marble Run
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Create a run and try to get your marble to go as far as you can. Use all types of materials, think creatively and test how far your marble runs! Tubes, tracks, switches, bottles, cardboard, cables and fun!
Bring your own materials or use what we have - we will have plenty of hot glue; blutak; tape; staples and more to hold the track together!
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Saturday June 15, 11am - 5pm
Ages: All!
Duration: 6 hours!
Cost: FREE
NO Booking Required!
Venue Information:
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Cruinniú na nÓg
June 15th 2024
with Makermeet.ie
@ Siamsa Tire,
Tralee,
Co. Kerry
MakerMeet IE are delighted to once again collaborate on a series of architectural workshops designed specifically for the younger generation.
These hands-on workshops will allow participants the opportunity to experience professional Maker-led, S.T.E.A.M.-based workshops and get to explore planning and building their own architectural structures!
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We're still nailing down which workshops we'll do on what dates, so check back here soon to find out.
Please note that all workshops are FREE and places are limited, so early booking is essential!
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With Engineers Week 2024 on the horizon, what activities do you have planned for your students?
Makermeet’s suite of mind-activating and creatively-empowering workshops can intuitively connect the “How?” with the “Why?” to inspire our next generation of builders, makers, and do-ers.
Electrical Engineering
Batteries, switches, LEDs! We make Circuitry Simple with an array of electronic engineering workshops to suit every ability level. We use approachable materials like Card, Clips, Fruit, and Paper to simplify the introduction to concepts like Current, Polarity, Coductivity, and more.
Charge your students with potential today!
Civil Engineering
Building houses, bridges, practical structures of all kinds... not all Engineering is nuts-and-bolts - some requires large-scale thinking!
We run Design A Town workshops that get students thinking about community needs, environmental requirements, and infrastructure planning.
Mechanical Engineering
Our Structural and Mechanical Engineering workshops provide a strong foundation for understanding the distribution of force and weight as we build. We test the surprising strength of materials like tissue, paper, cardboard, and pencils - introducing concepts like tension, compression, rigidity, and torsion. We construct geodesic domes, bridges made from sticks, and we rapid-prototype vehicals and contraptions in cardboard.
Software Engineering
Coding is an essential skill in modern life, and our workshops introduce students to coding using easy-to-interpret methods with immediate results.
Students will grapple with machine logic and code-flow without even realising it as they make robots move or characters run.
