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Upgrading of Beehive Monitoring System
The major monitoring system components. A ‘gate’ system bee counter – counts bees going in and out. The hive heart which monitors temperature, humidity and […]
Women Scientists – Making Headway Every Day!
Age group 3rd – 6th classTotal time: 30mins – 1hr Outline: To learn about some important women physicists and their scientific discoveries One of our […]
Science Week 2020 School Workshops!
The SOPHia project is offering two online workshops for schools during Science Week 2020, as part of the Limerick Festival of Science. The SOPHia project […]
Water is Life
Age group 3rd – 6th classTotal time: 1hr Outline: To learn about the importance of water, the water cycle and how to make a water […]
Sophia Hive 2 Painted
A wooden hive would not survive very long in the raw state, i.e. untreated wood, so chance select paints were chosen from remnants found in […]
Wooden Hive Assembly
After considerable delay the wooden hive (National configiration) finally arrived from Donegal Bees: First, the contents were unpacked. Was surprised to find that there were […]
Mothers and Babies are Well
I’m reliably informed that both mother queens and baby queens are doing well in both the Knockainey (Sophia) and Foxgrove (Rockbarton) sites. The new Sophia […]
Good Vibrations
Age group 3rd – 6th classTotal time: 30mins Outline: To learn about how sounds are made and how they travel through different materials Links to […]
Sophia Expansion Update
It has been two weeks since the Sophia colony was split to generate a spin-off swarm (artificial swarm). Recall that this entailed taking the original […]