This year's IOP Technical Careers Fair will take place on Friday 9th November 2018 from 10am to 2pm in The Student Zone, North West Regional College, Strand Road, Derry/Londonderry. Registration will open in September on the IOP Conferences website. Last year's fair was widely welcomed for its clear advice to [...]
Armagh Planetarium took part in Engineering Open House Day on Friday 3rd August with their very own Rocket Launch Challenge. The Planetarium hosted families and school groups for a one day special workshop demonstrating Isaac Newton’s Third Law of Motion - ‘For every action there is an equal and opposite [...]
The Ulster Society of Student Engineers (USSE) was recently named the winner of the 'Best New Society Award' at the 2018 National Societies Awards ceremony, held in Cardiff. Looking at their groaning trophy cabinet it's clear to see they have been busy! Dr Patrick Porter shows off the awards from [...]
This summer, the Year of Engineering campaign is encouraging children across the country to get making, inventing and having fun over the holidays. The Holiday Makers is a brand new hub packed with fun activities and challenges that will help to entertain and inspire your children, keeping their minds sharp [...]
MATRIX has launched its report on Women in STEM at the Titanic, Belfast. The report argues that by 2030, 33% of young people moving into STEM careers in NI should be girls and that government must aim to establish Northern Ireland as an exemplar STEM region. If the potential for [...]
The biggest science fair on the island of Ireland is doubling capacity in Belfast in just its second year, bringing over 1,500 key stage 2 pupils together from all over Ireland to display their creative science investigations in Belfast this June. The RDS Primary Science Fair is calling on primary [...]
The Royal Academy of Engineering and the Royal Air Force have teamed up to bring 100 years of RAF engineering marvels to life in classrooms across the UK with an exciting new RAF Centenary ‘Aiming for Awesome’ teaching resource for primary schools. Education teams from both organisations have combined their [...]
A pioneering campaign to transform the way young people see engineering and boost numbers entering the profession has been launched. The Year of Engineering aims to deliver a million inspiring engineering experiences in 2018 and MATRIX will be participating throughout the year. Ministers from across government are joining forces with [...]
The programme for the ever popular NI Science Festival has been launched, with MATRIX one of the main sponsors. The festival is now in its fourth year, and this year's programme will have 180 events across 11 days in February. These events all help to promote STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering [...]