Supernova School Tour: Workshop │ Exhibition │ Tour

Cost: €8/student

Duration: 2.5 hours including break for food (if required)

Age group: Can be tailored to both primary and secondary groups

Capacity (if numbers are higher the school group can be divided):

Exhibition Space: 10 – 80

Primary Workshops: 10 – 30

Second Level Workshops: 10 – 25

The Supernova package is the ultimate school tour bringing together our three most popular activities for only €8 per student.

Your school group will start their visit with a workshop led by our experienced staff. Workshops can vary from Alien Slime to Rockets to be booked before your visit.

The group will then move into our award winning interactive science exhibition Cosmos at the Castle where they will learn about the Universe, extreme life forms on Earth and life in outer space!

As the students work their way through the four large interactive displays they come to the CIT area. Here students can listen to our researchers from BCOlabs as they discuss their work in searching for new planets around distant stars using telescopes at BCO and abroad.

Next up is the Pan Galactic Station where students send a message to space. This part of the exhibit attracts a lot of attention from people of all ages! Students get to type their message at our interactive kiosk and send it out at their command via our radio telescope, beaming it towards nearby stars with known planets in orbit around them.

NASA Astronaut Dan Tani sends his Message to Space at the BT Young Scientist

The group then play the Comet Chaser in Ireland’s first interactive theatre where they will virtually save the Earth! Certificates available for students who receive the highest score.

Your school group will now begin their guided tour of the Castle and Dungeons. Your journey will take you on a trip back through the colourful history of Blackrock, Cork or into the future of blazars, quasars and the BCO Planet Search Programme. Tours include a trip to the research towers and down to the dungeon, which is a National Monument.