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Try Engineering at WIT for TY students

For more information, go to

www.wit.ie/events/engineering/engineering-your-future-wit-steps-event

Carlow IT presentation

Many thanks to Waterford hurler Colin Dunford who came to the school last week and gave a presentation to the Fifth Years on the courses available in Carlow IT.  Good luck to Colin and his teammates in the league final against Limerick on Sunday.

What skills companies are looking for ...

Article on the EURES (European Job Mobility Portal) on what skills employers are interested in - creativity being somewhere near the top of the list!!!
(copy and paste the link into your browser)

https://ec.europa.eu/eures/public/en/news-articles/-/asset_publisher/L2ZVYxNxK11W/content/what-skills-are-companies-looking-for-in-2019-?inheritRedirect=false&redirect=https%3A%2F%2Fec.europa.eu%2Feures%2Fpublic%2Fen%2Fnews-articles%3Fp_p_id%3D101_INSTANCE_L2ZVYxNxK11W%26p_p_lifecycle%3D0%26p_p_state%3Dnormal%26p_p_mode%3Dview%26p_p_col_id%3D_118_INSTANCE_U2TwYOTdC3eS__column-1%26p_p_col_pos%3D1%26p_p_col_count%3D3&_101_INSTANCE_L2ZVYxNxK11W_backLabelKey=news.articles.back.to.list&_101_INSTANCE_L2ZVYxNxK11W_showAssetFooter=true

Sometime collaborator with Waterpark College Dr. Chris Mulhall of WIT is interviewed by Damien Tiernan on WLR about English language slang words used in Ireland

Follow the link:
https://www.wlrfm.com/2019/03/26/deise-today-26th-march-should-irish-slang-be-included-in-the-oxford-dictionary/#

Ireland Skills Live Thank you!

Fifth Year students attended the Ireland Skills Live careers exhibition in the RDS last Thursday and here some feedback from important people!

"I would love to see all parents bring their young people here." President of Ireland
Michael D Higgins. "I believe that this exhibition will in time be as important as the Young
Scientist Exhibition."
President of Ireland Michael D Higgins and Mrs Sabina Higgins visited the inaugural Ireland
Skills Live at RDS Simmonscourt today.
The President and his wife did an extensive walking tour of the arena or over 90
minutes, stopping to speak with many competitors, who were all happy to break off the hard work
as they were finishing up their final tests in the National Skills Finals this afternoon.
President Higgins was clearly impressed with the high standard of skill and craft on exhibit, from
Building Information Modelling to Visual Merchandising, from Cloud Computing to Carpentry.
President Higgins remarked after touring the full arena,
“The Ireland Skills Live event is a very important exhibition. It concentrates on most valuable
skills, that some of the very best people who are thinking about how one can express one’s
creativity in the most useful possible way, can use in any part of the world.
And at the exhibition I met some of the most dedicated teachers and all of the institutes here are
doing far-seeing, future-oriented work and, I don’t mind saying, I would love to see all parents
bring their young people here.
I believe that this exhibition will in time be as important as the Young Scientist Exhibition.”
Adrian Cummins Head of the Restaurant Association of Ireland said today that they had over 150
career enquiries for chef courses at the Failte Ireland/ Tourism Ireland Hospitality stand, over the
three days of Ireland Skills Live.
"We need chefs in hospitality in Ireland" he said, "I have been saying this for years, so it is great
to get such a good reaction from students and potential apprentice chefs."
“We are delighted to support this innovative and long awaited initiative for kinaesthetic learners”
said Beatrice Dooley, President of the Institute of Guidance Counsellors. “A huge thank you to all
of the guidance counsellors who registered the students and organized the buses to ferry them
to Ireland Skills Live today.”
Over the three days of Ireland Skills Live, from Thursday March 21-23, the RDS Simmonscourt
arena was visited by over 10,000 second level students. today, Family Day was busy with
parents and young people visiting the stands and competitions.

UCC Computer science info day

https://drive.google.com/open?id=17QWWc3XH4Qkqd8EpKTX8BRVuSwnIwUV1

Follow the link above

List of apprenticeships in Ireland

Follow this link

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1JaVP0r5lxK2LBrVYLa5IPYiROhzQ7lYN/view?usp=sharing

Opportunities through BIS and Computer Sci in CIT for girls

Follow the link:

https://youtu.be/5CUWL-esF-Q

Ireland Skills Live

Fifth year students will attend the Ireland Skills Live careers event on Thursday the 21st of March in the RDS.
See irelandakillslive.ie

WIT Spring Open Days and more ...

Spring open events: Friday & Saturday, 29 & 30 March. This is an extremely helpful event for students as both the student and parent are very focused on narrowing their course choices as well as tying down the more practical elements like accommodation, fees, grants, transport etc. Visit our events page for more information.

We also have a number of events running during the Spring Open events:

Try Lab Sciences: The Department of Science is running two-hour lab sessions in Biology and Pharmaceutical Science during the Spring open day on Saturday, 30 March. These labs have limited availability and are specifically designed for anyone considering studying a lab science programme in September 2019. You will find more information and can book on the events page.
 

An Hour of Code: In just one hour, we're giving CAO applicants the chance to figure out if coding is for them using a special 'Hour of Code' exercise, designed to demystify 'code' and show that anybody can learn the basics. This event is very popular so we are running three sessions throughout the open day on Saturday 30 March. More information and booking is on the events page.
 

BBS event: Students interested in business are invited to a special event during the open days where they will meet staff, current students and graduates who will share their experiences of the programme. We are running one session on Friday 29 March and two on Saturday 30 March. There’s no need to book for this event but more information on the event, locations and times is here.

Primary teacher training abroad

https://www.irishtimes.com/news/education/ask-brian-can-i-qualify-abroad-to-become-a-primary-teacher-1.3807166?mode=amp

Interesting article on cv writing

Follow the link:

https://careersnews.ie/cv-sections-and-how-to-write-them/

Aircraft Maintenance & Engineering Apprenticeship 2019 - Dublin

For more information, go to: https://ryanair.workable.com/j/AA912C8B12

Women in Technology careers event, WIT arena

Fifth Year girls will attend the Women in Technology careers event in WIT arena on Thursday the 7th of March. For more info, go to www.wit.ie/womenintechnology