Huge demand for APC Transition Year Placements - April 2011
APC’s Budding Biologists Transition Year Experience Programme took place from 11-15 April 2011.
This year the APC hosted a record number of 20 Transition Year students from 14 different schools from Castletownbere Co. Cork to Carnew, Co.Wicklow, in response to an increasing demand for places. We received over 50 applications from enthusiastic secondary school students, eager to spend a week in a research lab.
The week-long APC TY Programme offers 16 year old students a unique insight into the multi-disciplinary nature of research at the APC, providing them with an action-packed programme of laboratory-based and other activities including workshops on careers, presentation skills, debating topical scientific issues, report writing and demonstrations of our state-of-the-art equipment in UCC and Teagasc.
Feedback from participants included:
“I learnt loads of new stuff and it helped me choose my leaving certificate subjects”
“I particularly enjoyed the labs because they were hand on and allowed me to really understand topics like DNA and MRSA”
Picture: Transition Year students with APC's Pat Casey
