The RDS Foundation Science and Technology programme aims to support excellence in scientific endeavour and communication, to emphasise the importance of science and technology in economic and social development and to encourage young people to see science as provoking, challenging and fun.
The RDS has been coordinating the selection of the Irish delegation for the London International Youth Science Forum since 1964. The Forum is an exciting annual event which brings together some 300 young students from more than 50 countries across the globe.
The RDS Science Live Demonstration Lecture series involves funding science communicators to develop high quality workshops that are aimed at those in primary and secondary school.
In celebration of Maths Week, the RDS organises an annual lecture designed to promote mathematics in schools and mathematics as a career choice.
The RDS Science Live for Teachers programme involves two annual workshops developed to provide teachers with an opportunity to hone their skills to help teach and demonstrate the science curriculum.
In 1899 the Society inaugurated a medal for scientific research of exceptional merit carried out in Ireland. It is now awarded biennially - alternating between a scientist based in Ireland and an Irish scientist based abroad. It remains to this day Ireland's premier science award.
The RDS has been working with the Ballymun Initiative for Third-level Education (B.I.T.E) programme since the early 1990's to increase the level of participation in third-level education among students who attend the Ballymun Comprehensive schools.
As his greatest ideas often appeared in the form of useful suggestions contained within letters sent to other scientists rather than through his own publications, George Francis FitzGerald remains one of the great under-appreciated physicists in the history of science.
The RDS Primary Science Fair is an integral part of the BT Young Scientist and Technology Exhibition. While not part of the main competition, it provides an opportunity for students from 100 primary schools to display their class projects at a major exhibition.
In celebration of the memory of John Tyndall, the renowned populariser of science, the RDS hosts an annual lecture on physics for schools which is aimed specifically at those in Transition Year and above.
Designed to explain how our body seeks and destroys invaders, the RDS organises a series of short immunology lectures for schools every year which is aimed specifically at those in Transition Year and above.
