In the buzzing atmosphere of the BT Young Scientist & Technology Exhibition on Saturday, over 550 promising young scientists joined UCD biomedical researchers to learn about…
February 2020
A science education initiative led by Systems Biology Ireland in partnership with the Biomedical Diagnostics Institute in Dublin City University has been announced by leading biotechnology company Amgen and its philanthropic arm, the Amgen Foundation.
The Amgen Biotech Experience programme together with a complementary…
Amgen Biotech Experience (ABE) are now offering training in molecular biology experiments for secondary school teachers at locations in University College Dublin and Dublin City University during October. Teachers who take part in the training have access to professional grade scientific equipment and curriculum-linked teaching materials to teach these experiments to their students in school…
ABE-Ireland staff attended the 2016 BT Young Scientist & Technology Exhibition in the RDS, Dublin on Thursday, 7th and Saturday, 9th January to give young science enthusiasts a chance to get hands-on with biomedical research equipment.
Over 250 children, parents and teachers got the opportunity to get to grips with the basics of…
A teacher participating in the ABE program at Caritas College in Ballyfermot, Dublin, invited a local newspaper, the Echo, to report about the ABE program. The article appeared in the newspaper on March 17. The Amgen Biotech Experience workshop gave students a glimpse into studying biology at university and of some of the techniques used in a career in biotechnology.
Students…
Two teachers published an article about their experience with the ABE program in the March edition of the Science journal of the Irish Science Teacher Association.
You can download the pdf here.
This school year, Irish secondary school teachers again have the chance to bring the Amgen Biotech Experience programme into their classrooms. In the past six weeks, we held three Saturday and three evening courses to train teachers in using our state-of-the-art laboratory equipment. Experiments included DNA profiling…
Students often wonder how certain information they are taught is actually relevant in real life. For biology in particular, knowledge about DNA and other molecules that are too small to see may seem to be too abstract to have any actual relevance. During this event, secondary school teachers experienced first-hand how this knowledge has been used to…
From Monday 14th to Wednesday 16th November, the project coordinators of the various ABE programme sites met up in sunny San Francisco. This…
This November, we showed both young and old Dubliners what scientists do in the laboratory and the important role of DNA and genes. On Tuesday, 15th November, we and three researchers from Systems Biology Ireland,…
This event brought together stakeholders from industry, education and national & European policy makers to share major achievements and innovations in STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) teaching through business-education collaborations. Speakers included Marianne Thyssen, European Commissioner for Employment, Social…
The Amgen Biotech Experience Ireland team were invited to take part in an academy coaching morning (https://www.cualagaa.ie/coaching-morning-for-academy/) with Cuala Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA) club on Saturday, 05 October, 9am–12.30pm on the Thomastown pitches.
There were 600 children aged 6–9 years old registered for the event and braving the elements on a fresh Autumn morning…