Students can show racism the red card: The Irish Committee for Show Racism the Red Card is inviting second-level students to participate in an art competition by designing a visual art display on the theme of racism.
Show Racism the Red Card is a Europe-wide, anti-racist educational initiative for young people involving Irish, British and European football stars.
Students are requested to view the Show Racism the Red Card CD Rom (competition packs including the CD Rom have been sent to all art teachers) and prepare an art work based on their own response to the issues raised in the CD.
Entry is open to all second-level students and artwork must be submitted to the ASTI, ASTI House, Winetavern Street, Dublin 8, before Friday, December 11th, 2003.
For more information visit the ASTI website - www.asti.ie. For a competition pack, email your request to library@asti.ie.
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Entry forms for third-level institutions are now available. For further information telephone (01) 675 8000 or email aoife@dublin.ie
ISPCC Hallowe'en Challenge
In this the third year of the challenge the ISPCC is once again encouraging primary schools nationwide to dress up at Hallowe'en and be in with a chance of winning a school prize to the value of €2,000. All monies raise will go to the ISPCC Leanbh service, which deals with child begging.
For posters, leaflets and information on the competition contact ISPCC Cork (021)4962949. Email ispcccrk@indigo.ie
Cross-border photography competition on climate change
Sustainable Energy Ireland, in conjunction with the Belfast Energy Efficiency Advice Centre, is running a cross-border photography competition for second-level students.
The competition is open to all secondary school students in the Republic and in Northern Ireland, with an age limit of 18 years. The closing date for the competition is January 31st, 2004. All secondary schools will receive details of the competition in the next few weeks. Winning entries will be exhibited in Dublin and Belfast in spring 2004 Kilkenny Education Centre
Centenary Celebrations of the birth of Nobel prize winner Professor E.T.S. Walton
The life of E.T.S. Walton, the only Irish person to be awarded a Nobel Prize in science, will be celebrated this Friday, October 17th in Trinity College Dublin's Department of Physics.
The day of events, marking the centenary of his birth this month, will include commemorative lectures and a concert in the college chapel.
Walton entered Trinity College in 1922, where he obtained a double first class degree in physics and mathematics. In 1926, he went to Cambridge to work with the "father" of nuclear physics, Ernest Rutherford. Walton, in collaboration with John Cockcroft, achieved worldwide fame in 1932 when he split the nucleus of the atom by artificial means, thus launching the era of accelerator-based nuclear physics. Walton returned to the Physics Department in TCD from 1947 to 1974. Further information: http://www.tcd.ie/Physics/
