Can we drop an egg from a height and not let it break?

‘Can we drop an egg from a height and not let it break?’ – this is just one of the questions posed by primary school students as they undertake a class investigation for the RDS Primary Science Fair. The Fair takes place each January alongside the BT Young Scientist & Technology Exhibition and encourages teachers to facilitate a child-led, scientific investigation among their students. Last year schools from 23 counties from both Ireland north and south took part, with over 2/3 coming from outside of Dublin.

Project entries to the Fair must seek to answer a question which the students put forward themselves and which the whole class can work together to investigate. The Fair is not a competition - the emphasis is on students’ skills development and also facilitates the development of literacy, oral language and numeracy skills through the context of a scientific investigation.

Open to 4th, 5th, 6th and Key Stage 2 classes, the call for expressions of interest will open on September 3, 2014. For further information please contact primarysciencefair@rds.ie; call 01 240 7990 or visit www.rds.ie/primarysciencefair.