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25 March

Ireland’s Top Young Problem-Solvers to Take on World’s Best Decoders at International Linguistics Olympiad

  • Posted by Laura Grehan
  • Categories Blog

Four secondary school students from across the island of Ireland have been selected to test their language decoding skills against the world’s best at the International Linguistics Olympiad in Yongin, South Korea 29th July – 2nd August. The students, from Cork,

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20 August

IOL 2018 Prague

  • Posted by Colm O'Hehir
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Five secondary students represented Ireland at the International Linguistics Olympiad (IOL) in Prague from 26-30 July. Leo Doherty (Lumen Christi, Derry), Eimear Kyle (St Finian’s, Mullingar), Philip Krause (Ashton School, Cork), Lucy Dornan (St Andrews, Blackrock, Dublin) and Daniel Quigley

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17 July

Using Ozobots to hone primary school problem-solving skills

  • Posted by Colm O'Hehir
  • Categories Uncategorized

On Wednesday, 20th June, the ADAPT Centre hosted the first of the pilot workshops for Primary Schools. Fourth class students at St. Brigid’s GNS used their problem-solving skills to code Ozobot robots.
The students coded the small robot’s movements using

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26 October

Register for All Ireland Linguistics Olympiad 2018!

  • Posted by Laura Grehan
  • Categories News

Registration for the 2018 season of the All Ireland Linguistics Olympiad (AILO) is now open! The Olympiad – known as “The Problem-Solvers’ Challenge” – seeks to find Irelands’ top young problem solver. Secondary school students are challenged to use logic

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19 October

ADAPT Hosts First Family-Friendly Problem-Solving Festival in Trinity College

  • Posted by Laura Grehan
  • Categories News

On September 30th, the nationwide Problem-Solving Initiative, run by the ADAPT Centre and supported by Science Foundation Ireland over the last two years, culminated in an event which invited members of the public of all ages to test their minds

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03 August

Irish Teens Have Home Advantage as Dublin Hosts the 2017 International Linguistics Olympiad

  • Posted by Laura Grehan
  • Categories News

Today forty-four teams consisting of 176 students aged between 14-19 years, representing 29 countries, will compete in the International Linguistics Olympiad 2017 in Dublin. The International Linguistics Olympiad 2017 (IOL 2017) is being hosted by the Science Foundation Ireland-funded ADAPT

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21 March

All Ireland Linguistics Olympiad National Final

  • Posted by Laura Grehan
  • Categories Event

On Friday, 24th March 2017 the ADAPT Centre will host the national final of the All Ireland Linguistics Olympiad 2017 at DIT Grangegorman, Dublin. From a starting lineup of 4,000 secondary school students, the top 100 linguistic problem solvers will

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20 March

Hundreds test their wits at Big Day Out Festival

  • Posted by Laura Grehan
  • Categories News

Hundreds of young families honed their problem-solving skills with fun games and activities from the Problem-Solving Initiative at the St Patrick’s Festival Big Day Out at Merrion Square, Dublin on Sunday, 19th March 2017. The Problem-Solving Initiative gave visitors to

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30 January

All Ireland Linguistics Olympiad 2017 Regional Workshops

  • Posted by Colm O'Hehir
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The preparations for the All Ireland Linguistics Olympiad 2017 (AILO) picked up the pace in January this year with 17 problem-solving workshops held in schools and universities across the country reaching almost 480 students from across the island of Ireland.

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20 December

Register Now for the All Ireland Linguistics Olympiad 2017

  • Posted by Laura Grehan
  • Categories News

Do you think you could be Ireland’s top young problem solver? Join the more than 2,600 Irish secondary school students who have already signed up for the All Ireland Linguistics Olympiad 2017. The linguistic code-breaking contest aims to identify Ireland’s

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