Young and Irish Voices
Scifest is an exciting Science programme for all schools and is free to enter. It is particularly suited to TY and there are competitions at local, regional and national levels. Shiela Porter is one of the founders of SciFest and she spoke to us about the programme and how students can get involved.
Lorcan and Elena
Youth Media
Zeminar are a wellbeing and education movement for Generation Z and focus on 15-20 year olds. They were at TY Expo to promote Zeminar, which takes place in October in the RDS coinciding with global mental health week and features a huge range of influential speakers.
Lorcan and Elena
Youth Media Team
Lorcan and Elena interviewed some of the early arrivals at Ty Expo in Punchestown Racecourse. They asked three TY students from Holy Family School Rathcoole about what they hoped to get from their year in TY
Lorcan and Elena
Youth Media Team
Lorcan met with Philip Bromwell of RTE on day 2 of MoJoCon. Philip is very well known in the world of MoJoCon so he told us about how he became involved in mobile journalism. He also gave us an insight into his most challenging and most enjoyable stories. Lorcan also asked him to look into the future and predict where journalism would go.
Lorcan
Youth Media Team
Christine Costelloe is a Digital Youth Council alumni and an aspiring journalist. Lorcan interviewed her to get an insight into how and why she came to be at MoJoCon. Christine has already published a number of articles as she is a freelance music journalist. Christine was delighted with what she learned at MoJoCon and is planning to study journalism and new media after her Leaving Certificate.
Lorcan
Youth Media Team
Lorcan spoke to Karina Buckley at the end of Day Two of MoJoCon. She was the MC for the MoJoCon event. He asked her about her career to date, how she got involved in MoJoCon and also about the work she does to raise awareness of climate change as she was previously a weather forecast presenter with RTE.She also gave some sound advice for budding journalists.
Lorcan
Youth Media Team
Matt Cooke from Google News Lab gave Lorcan an interview on Day Two of MoJoCon. Matt is very much involved in looking at how technology can support the work of the journalist- in particular focusing on the Google Applications and Tools that can help to verify stories and make them more interesting. Listen to the interview below.
Lorcan
Youth Media Team
Glen Mulcahy is the founder of MoJoCon and Lorcan was delighted to get an interview with his as everyone kept referring to him as the ‘father of MoJoCon in Ireland’ He spoke to us about how he got involved in MoJoCon and what his MoJoCon takeawys are.
Lorcan
Youth Media Team
Bill Carter is a journalist, film-maker and teacher. He was at MojoCon to speak on the documentary panel. He spoke to Lorcan about his film Miss Sarajevo and explained how technology helps his work. For Bill it is all about the story.
Lorcan
Youth Media Team
Lorcan decided to brave it for the next interview at MoJoCon and interviewed Róisín Ní Thomain through Irish. Róisín is a MoJo working through Irish and English and has worked with BT Young Scientist and is the presenter of the upcoming four-part series Sisters of Science.
Chinn Lorcan a bheith cróga agus rinne sé agallamh le Róisín Ni Thomain trí ghaeilge. Is iriseoir í Róisín ag obair trí Ghaeilge agus trí Bhéarla. Tá clár nua ag teacht uaithi: Deirfiúracha na hEolaíochta ar RTÉ1.
Lorcan
Youth Media Team