Third Level / Industry Linkage

During the course of the cluster, our schools took part in collaboration activities with Microsoft and Ericcson's

Collaboration with Ericsson's Athlone

Schools in our cluster took part in training provided by Ericsson's in Athlone.

Ericsson's provided teacher and student training in how to use the Microbit.

Schools also visited Ericssons to get a taste of what is would be like to work as a softwear engineers.

Ericsson's also set up a Zoom questions and answers session with a softwear engineer to give an insight into what it would be like to work as a softwear engineer.


Collaboration with Microsoft

Schools in our cluster took part in Dreamspace training with Microsoft. This involved schools in our cluster taking part in live Teams training in areas such as coding , Minecraft and Microbits.