- Public & Family -

Cork Science Festival 2020 features a combination of virtual, blended and broadcast workshops and shows. Please select each listing for more information.

  • Science in A Jar: Light Up Your Brain
    TBD
    Science in A Jar: Light Up Your Brain
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    Details
    Time is TBD
    Zoom
    Celebrate the launch of the Scouting Ireland Tyndall Scouting Skills Badge, recognising John Tyndall, Ireland’s most influential scientist
  • Cork Discovers
    Cork Discovers
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    Details
    Nov 26, 2020, 12:00 AM – Nov 28, 2020, 11:00 PM
    Online Live Stream
    Cork Discovers is back but not how we know it. This year we can’t gather together but we will come straight to your living rooms and kitchens, streaming incredible live events into your homes.
  • Fantastic DNA at Home
    Fantastic DNA at Home
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    Details
    Nov 15, 2020, 2:30 PM – 3:30 PM
    Zoom workshop with kits pre delivered
    Discover DNA, the instruction book found in all living things! Work like a molecular biologist and extract DNA from cells in your kitchen with everyday life items hand sanitiser.
  • Real Time Science
    Real Time Science
    Zoom Science Show
    Booking Details
    Nov 15, 2020, 1:00 PM
    Zoom Science Show
    Watch from home and join in the experiments with everyday materials from your kitchen
  • Fantastic DNA at Home
    Fantastic DNA at Home
    RSVP Closed
    Details
    Nov 15, 2020, 12:30 PM – 1:30 PM
    Zoom workshop with kits pre delivered
    Discover DNA, the instruction book found in all living things! Work like a molecular biologist and extract DNA from cells in your kitchen with everyday life items hand sanitiser.
  • Messy Science Show with Professer Baloney
    Messy Science Show with Professer Baloney
    Zoom Science Show
    Booking Details
    Nov 15, 2020, 12:00 PM
    Zoom Science Show
    Super Sunday Science Show for all the Family
  • I'll tell you a story about Johnny Magory
    I'll tell you a story about Johnny Magory
    Online Event
    Booking Details
    Nov 15, 2020, 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM
    Online Event
    Reconnect the children with nature with a live reading from the Johnny Magory series of books by author Emma Jane Leeson.
  • Fooling Our Senses
    Fooling Our Senses
    Zoom or Microsoft Teams
    Booking Details
    Nov 15, 2020, 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM
    Zoom or Microsoft Teams
    Our senses are easily fooled and our bodies are full of science! Suitable for families as we investigate the science that we can use our bodies to explore.
  • The Mirror Trap
    The Mirror Trap
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    Details
    Nov 14, 2020, 7:30 PM – 8:30 PM
    Zoom
    An online immersive experience about quantum physics and psychology.
  • Build Your Own Rube Goldberg Machine
    Build Your Own Rube Goldberg Machine
    RSVP Closed
    Details
    Nov 14, 2020, 6:30 PM – 7:15 PM
    Zoom
    Join Mark the Science Guy and build your own fantastic machine with anything you can find at home!
  • Creative Tech Club - Human Anatomy
    Creative Tech Club - Human Anatomy
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    Details
    Nov 14, 2020, 2:00 PM – 4:00 PM
    Online
    The Creative Tech Club invites children to explore the relationship between art and science.
  • Steampunk Mask Online Workshop for Teens
    Steampunk Mask Online Workshop for Teens
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    Details
    Nov 14, 2020, 12:00 PM
    Online Workshop / Webinar
    Inspired by the costumes of Renaissance plague doctors, join Megan Scott this Science Week and create your own bird-like mask. Why not give STEAM a punk-twist to this moving macabre mask?
  • Science Week Family Day!
    Science Week Family Day!
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    Details
    Nov 14, 2020, 12:00 PM – 7:00 PM
    Online
    A free fun-filled family day to get involved in Science Week online from Science Foundation Ireland
  • Pick Your Brain !
    Pick Your Brain !
    RSVP Closed
    Details
    Nov 14, 2020, 11:30 AM – Nov 15, 2020, 12:30 AM
    Live Stream
    Live Family Science Quiz with Phil Smyth
  • SEAI Children’s Book Reading with Lucinda Jacob
    SEAI Children’s Book Reading with Lucinda Jacob
    RSVP Closed
    Details
    Nov 14, 2020, 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM
    Virtual Workshop
    Join SEAI on Saturday 14th November, as part of Science Week, for a virtual reading of the SEAI children’s adventure storybook ‘Climate SOS’.
  • Pick Your Brain ! For Grown Ups
    Pick Your Brain ! For Grown Ups
    RSVP Closed
    Details
    Nov 13, 2020, 8:00 PM – 9:00 PM
    Live Stream
    Put your science knowledge to the test with this live interactive quiz
  • Citizen Science in Conservation
    Citizen Science in Conservation
    RSVP Closed
    Details
    Nov 13, 2020, 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM
    Webinar
    Ocean Research & Conservation Ireland's education officer Éinne Ó Cathasaigh will be discussing the applications of citizen science in conservation with a specific focus on marine conservation in Ireland
  • UniverSilly Challenged with Jonny Berliner & Simon Watt (Grown-up Edition)
    UniverSilly Challenged with Jonny Berliner & Simon Watt (Grown-up Edition)
    RSVP Closed
    Details
    Nov 12, 2020, 8:30 PM – 11:30 PM
    YouTube & Kahoot
    An interactive live quiz to celebrate Science Week for Adults