Over 200 FE students will showcase their creativity and innovation in STEM projects at the 5th annual BEST event in Belfast's Ramada Plaza Hotel on the 27th May. The BEST Awards are open to students from Northern Ireland's (NI) six regional FE colleges and offer an annual competition linked to their studies in the areas of [...]
ESA astronaut Tim Peake has issued an invitation to UK school pupils to contact him via amateur radio during his mission to the International Space Station. Tim Peake will be launched to the Space Station in November to spend six months working and living on the orbiting research centre. Thanks [...]
The UK Commission for Employment and Skills (UKCES) has published a guide highlighting a range of jobs which are all "Careers of the Future". Based on extensive research and the latest data from the UK Commission for Employment and Skills (UKCES), this guide presents a list of jobs which will offer [...]
St Killian's College in Carnlough has won the ‘Best Northern Ireland School Award’ at the BT Young Scientist of the Year Awards in Dublin, for their project ‘Time compressed transport tester.’ The award, which was sponsored by MATRIX and presented by Joanne Stuart, saw St Killian's beat stiff competition from 29 [...]
Twenty eight leading employers in the STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) sector in Northern Ireland have signed up to a new STEM Charter to demonstrate their commitment to improving gender balance in their business. The STEM Charter, which is a first for Northern Ireland, was launched in June 2014 [...]
BT today announced that 128 students from 24 schools in Northern Ireland have entered 59 projects into the BT Young Scientist & Technology Exhibition 2015. And letters are winging their way to students this week to inform them if they have qualified to compete in this extraordinary event which has [...]
The winners of the 2014 MATRIX Poetry Competition were announced on Thursday 16th October in the Linenhall Library, Belfast, by Professor Iggy McGovern, Professor of Physics at Trinity College Dublin and award winning poet. This year there were two main categories in the competition – one for people with a [...]
MATRIX is delighted that 59 students from across Northern Ireland have been selected to compete at the 50th BT Young Scientist & Technology Exhibition. This year, 31 projects from the North have qualified for the competition which takes place at the RDS in Dublin from 8 – 11 January 2014. [...]
The winner of the MATRIX Poetry Competition was announced on Saturday evening by poet laureate Carol Ann Duffy. David Crozier, Technical Marketing Manager at Queen’s University Belfast’s ECIT Institute based at the Northern Ireland Science Park was revealed as the winner for his poem entitled The Dock. Runner up was [...]
Following an absence of a few years, I made a return visit to this year’s Ulster University Summer Exhibition to see the work produced by our future design leaders. I was struck by the exceptional quality of the students’ digital media exhibits and the ambition of these young people to [...]
In Northern Ireland some employers, who need key science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) skills are facing difficulties recruiting and retaining enough staff who have the necessary levels of qualifications and skills. And this isn’t just a problem for Northern Ireland. The Social Market foundation recently estimated that there is a 40,000 shortfall each year in the number [...]
We have launched the first MATRIX Poetry Competition to highlight the links between science and the arts. Open to scientists, technicians, engineers and mathematician, the competition is to write a poem of 14 lines or less, excluding the title. It can be profound or humorous, about the big issues or the [...]