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align=\"center\" valign=\"top\" \">\n\t\t\t\t<![endif]-->\n                <table align=\"left\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\" style=\"min-width: 100%;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\" class=\"mcnBoxedTextContentContainer\">\n                    <tbody><tr>\n                        \n                        <td style=\"padding-top: 9px;padding-left: 18px;padding-bottom: 9px;padding-right: 18px;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n                        \n                            <table border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" class=\"mcnTextContentContainer\" width=\"100%\" style=\"min-width: 100% !important;background-color: #ABDAEF;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n                                <tbody><tr>\n                                    <td valign=\"top\" class=\"mcnTextContent\" style=\"padding: 18px;color: #6DCED1;font-family: Helvetica;font-size: 18px;font-weight: normal;text-align: center;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;word-break: break-word;line-height: 150%;\">\n                                        <span style=\"color:#1B1B1E\"><strong><span style=\"font-family:lucida sans unicode,lucida grande,sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size:26px\">AUGUST 2021<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/span>\n                                    <\/td>\n                                <\/tr>\n                            <\/tbody><\/table>\n                        <\/td>\n                    <\/tr>\n                <\/tbody><\/table>\n\t\t\t\t<!--[if gte mso 9]>\n\t\t\t\t<\/td>\n\t\t\t\t<![endif]-->\n                \n\t\t\t\t<!--[if gte mso 9]>\n                <\/tr>\n                <\/table>\n\t\t\t\t<![endif]-->\n            <\/td>\n        <\/tr>\n    <\/tbody>\n<\/table><\/td>\n                                        <\/tr>\n                                    <\/table>\n                                    <!--[if (gte mso 9)|(IE)]>\n                                    <\/td>\n                                    <\/tr>\n                                    <\/table>\n                                    <![endif]-->\n                                <\/td>\n                            <\/tr>\n                            <tr>\n                                <td align=\"center\" valign=\"top\" id=\"templateBody\" data-template-container=\"\" style=\"background:#FFFFFF none no-repeat center\/cover;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;background-color: #FFFFFF;background-image: none;background-repeat: no-repeat;background-position: center;background-size: cover;border-top: 0;border-bottom: 0;padding-top: 42px;padding-bottom: 42px;\">\n                                    <!--[if (gte mso 9)|(IE)]>\n                                    <table align=\"center\" border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" width=\"600\" style=\"width:600px;\">\n                                    <tr>\n                                    <td align=\"center\" valign=\"top\" width=\"600\" style=\"width:600px;\">\n                                    <![endif]-->\n                                    <table align=\"center\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\" class=\"templateContainer\" style=\"border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;max-width: 600px !important;\">\n                                        <tr>\n                                            <td valign=\"top\" class=\"bodyContainer\" style=\"background:transparent none no-repeat center\/cover;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;background-color: transparent;background-image: none;background-repeat: no-repeat;background-position: center;background-size: cover;border-top: 0;border-bottom: 0;padding-top: 0;padding-bottom: 0;\"><table border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\" class=\"mcnBoxedTextBlock\" style=\"min-width: 100%;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n    <!--[if gte mso 9]>\n\t<table align=\"center\" border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" width=\"100%\">\n\t<![endif]-->\n\t<tbody class=\"mcnBoxedTextBlockOuter\">\n        <tr>\n            <td valign=\"top\" class=\"mcnBoxedTextBlockInner\" style=\"mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n                \n\t\t\t\t<!--[if gte mso 9]>\n\t\t\t\t<td align=\"center\" valign=\"top\" \">\n\t\t\t\t<![endif]-->\n                <table align=\"left\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\" style=\"min-width: 100%;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\" class=\"mcnBoxedTextContentContainer\">\n                    <tbody><tr>\n                        \n                        <td style=\"padding-top: 9px;padding-left: 18px;padding-bottom: 9px;padding-right: 18px;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n                        \n                            <table border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" class=\"mcnTextContentContainer\" width=\"100%\" style=\"min-width: 100% !important;background-color: #6DCED1;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n                                <tbody><tr>\n                                    <td valign=\"top\" class=\"mcnTextContent\" style=\"padding: 18px;color: #222222;font-family: Helvetica;font-size: 14px;font-weight: normal;text-align: center;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;word-break: break-word;line-height: 150%;\">\n                                        <div style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00a0<\/div>\n\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-file-id=\"1745706\" height=\"567\" src=\"https:\/\/mcusercontent.com\/1e4c696c230483f91e7da02d5\/images\/13750a05-58e5-c6e4-50cc-c28dc437a4e0.jpg\" style=\"border: 0px;width: 800px;height: 567px;margin: 0px;outline: none;text-decoration: none;-ms-interpolation-mode: bicubic;\" width=\"800\"><\/div>\n\n                                    <\/td>\n                                <\/tr>\n                            <\/tbody><\/table>\n                        <\/td>\n                    <\/tr>\n                <\/tbody><\/table>\n\t\t\t\t<!--[if gte mso 9]>\n\t\t\t\t<\/td>\n\t\t\t\t<![endif]-->\n                \n\t\t\t\t<!--[if gte mso 9]>\n                <\/tr>\n                <\/table>\n\t\t\t\t<![endif]-->\n            <\/td>\n        <\/tr>\n    <\/tbody>\n<\/table><table border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\" class=\"mcnBoxedTextBlock\" style=\"min-width: 100%;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n    <!--[if gte mso 9]>\n\t<table align=\"center\" border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" width=\"100%\">\n\t<![endif]-->\n\t<tbody class=\"mcnBoxedTextBlockOuter\">\n        <tr>\n            <td valign=\"top\" class=\"mcnBoxedTextBlockInner\" style=\"mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n                \n\t\t\t\t<!--[if gte mso 9]>\n\t\t\t\t<td align=\"center\" valign=\"top\" \">\n\t\t\t\t<![endif]-->\n                <table align=\"left\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\" style=\"min-width: 100%;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\" class=\"mcnBoxedTextContentContainer\">\n                    <tbody><tr>\n                        \n                        <td style=\"padding-top: 9px;padding-left: 18px;padding-bottom: 9px;padding-right: 18px;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n                        \n                            <table border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" class=\"mcnTextContentContainer\" width=\"100%\" style=\"min-width: 100% !important;background-color: #6DCED1;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n                                <tbody><tr>\n                                    <td valign=\"top\" class=\"mcnTextContent\" style=\"padding: 18px;color: #222222;font-family: Helvetica;font-size: 14px;font-weight: normal;text-align: center;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;word-break: break-word;line-height: 150%;\">\n                                        <div style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00a0<\/div>\n\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color:#1B1B1E\"><span style=\"font-family:lucida sans unicode,lucida grande,sans-serif\"><strong><span style=\"font-size:18px\">Hello and welcome to the August\u00a0edition of the\u00a0Maths Week Newsletter!<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-file-id=\"1745622\" height=\"350\" src=\"https:\/\/mcusercontent.com\/1e4c696c230483f91e7da02d5\/images\/3d0e7151-841b-45a3-1bb0-4b08f71912db.png\" style=\"border: 0px initial;width: 350px;height: 350px;float: left;margin: 0px 10px 0px 0px;outline: none;text-decoration: none;-ms-interpolation-mode: bicubic;\" width=\"350\"><span style=\"font-family:lucida sans unicode,lucida grande,sans-serif\">Welcome back to teachers and pupils returning to the classroom. We wish you a positive term ahead and hope things return to normal soon!<br>\n<br>\nSchools are starting the serious planning for Maths Week. In this newsletter we are delighted to be sharing some exciting Maths Week\u00a0updates, including our 2021 posters, which are currently on their way to schools across the island of Ireland. We have a range of posters to suit all ages and which can be used in class. Check them out below, or go straight to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mathsweek.ie\/2021\/posters-2021\/\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #007C89;font-weight: normal;text-decoration: underline;\">mathsweek.ie<\/a>\u00a0to view them all.\u00a0\u00a0<br>\n<br>\nWe are also excited to have opened registration on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mathsweek.ie\/2021\/register\/\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #007C89;font-weight: normal;text-decoration: underline;\">www.mathsweek.ie<\/a>, where teachers can register their school's participation in\u00a0Maths Week (16-24 October) and to be in with a chance to win a prize!\u00a0<\/span><br>\n<br>\n\u00a0<\/div>\n\n<div style=\"text-align: right;\"><font color=\"#ff0000\" face=\"comic sans ms, marker felt-thin, arial, sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size:24px\"><em>Oonagh<\/em><\/span><\/font><br>\nOonagh Trehin,\u00a0<br>\nSTEM Engagement Coordinator<br>\nMaths Week Ireland<\/div>\n\n                                    <\/td>\n                                <\/tr>\n                            <\/tbody><\/table>\n                        <\/td>\n                    <\/tr>\n                <\/tbody><\/table>\n\t\t\t\t<!--[if gte mso 9]>\n\t\t\t\t<\/td>\n\t\t\t\t<![endif]-->\n                \n\t\t\t\t<!--[if gte mso 9]>\n                <\/tr>\n                <\/table>\n\t\t\t\t<![endif]-->\n            <\/td>\n        <\/tr>\n    <\/tbody>\n<\/table><table border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\" class=\"mcnShareBlock\" style=\"min-width: 100%;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n    <tbody class=\"mcnShareBlockOuter\">\n            <tr>\n                <td valign=\"top\" style=\"padding: 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#757575;font-family: Helvetica;font-size: 16px;line-height: 150%;text-align: left;\">\n                        \n                            <h3 class=\"null\" style=\"display: block;margin: 0;padding: 0;color: #444444;font-family: Helvetica;font-size: 22px;font-style: normal;font-weight: bold;line-height: 150%;letter-spacing: normal;text-align: left;\"><br>\n<span style=\"color:#FF8D06\">In this issue:<\/span><\/h3>\n\n<ul>\n\t<li style=\"mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\"><span style=\"font-family:lucida sans unicode,lucida grande,sans-serif\"><a href=\"#maths calendar\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #007C89;font-weight: normal;text-decoration: underline;\">Maths\u00a0<\/a><a href=\"#MW2021 updates\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #007C89;font-weight: normal;text-decoration: underline;\">Week 2021 Updates<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n\t<li style=\"mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\"><span style=\"font-family:lucida sans unicode,lucida grande,sans-serif\"><a href=\"#STEMreach\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #007C89;font-weight: normal;text-decoration: underline;\">STEMreach<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n\t<li style=\"mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\"><span style=\"font-family:lucida sans unicode,lucida grande,sans-serif\"><a href=\"#SCHOOLS NEWS\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #007C89;font-weight: normal;text-decoration: underline;\">Schools News<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n\t<li style=\"mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\"><span style=\"font-family:lucida sans unicode,lucida grande,sans-serif\"><a href=\"#maths resources\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #007C89;font-weight: normal;text-decoration: underline;\">Maths Resources<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n\t<li style=\"mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\"><span style=\"font-family:lucida sans unicode,lucida grande,sans-serif\"><a href=\"#maths news\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #007C89;font-weight: normal;text-decoration: underline;\">Maths News<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n\t<li style=\"mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\"><span style=\"font-family:lucida sans unicode,lucida grande,sans-serif\"><a href=\"#Hamilton Way\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #007C89;font-weight: normal;text-decoration: underline;\">Hamilton Way<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n\t<li style=\"mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\"><span style=\"font-family:lucida sans unicode,lucida grande,sans-serif\"><a href=\"#What's on?\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #007C89;font-weight: normal;text-decoration: underline;\">What\u2019s on<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n                        <\/td>\n                    <\/tr>\n                <\/tbody><\/table>\n\t\t\t\t<!--[if mso]>\n\t\t\t\t<\/td>\n\t\t\t\t<![endif]-->\n                \n\t\t\t\t<!--[if mso]>\n\t\t\t\t<\/tr>\n\t\t\t\t<\/table>\n\t\t\t\t<![endif]-->\n            <\/td>\n        <\/tr>\n    <\/tbody>\n<\/table><table border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\" class=\"mcnBoxedTextBlock\" style=\"min-width: 100%;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n    <!--[if gte mso 9]>\n\t<table align=\"center\" border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" width=\"100%\">\n\t<![endif]-->\n\t<tbody class=\"mcnBoxedTextBlockOuter\">\n        <tr>\n            <td valign=\"top\" class=\"mcnBoxedTextBlockInner\" style=\"mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n                \n\t\t\t\t<!--[if gte mso 9]>\n\t\t\t\t<td align=\"center\" valign=\"top\" \">\n\t\t\t\t<![endif]-->\n                <table align=\"left\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\" style=\"min-width: 100%;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\" class=\"mcnBoxedTextContentContainer\">\n                    <tbody><tr>\n           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style=\"font-size:24px\"><a id=\"MW2021 updates\" name=\"MW2021 updates\" style=\"mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #007C89;font-weight: normal;text-decoration: underline;\"><\/a><strong><span style=\"font-family:lucida sans unicode,lucida grande,sans-serif\">Maths Week 2021 News<\/span><\/strong><\/span>\n                                    <\/td>\n                                <\/tr>\n                            <\/tbody><\/table>\n                        <\/td>\n                    <\/tr>\n                <\/tbody><\/table>\n\t\t\t\t<!--[if gte mso 9]>\n\t\t\t\t<\/td>\n\t\t\t\t<![endif]-->\n                \n\t\t\t\t<!--[if gte mso 9]>\n                <\/tr>\n                <\/table>\n\t\t\t\t<![endif]-->\n            <\/td>\n        <\/tr>\n    <\/tbody>\n<\/table><table border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\" class=\"mcnBoxedTextBlock\" style=\"min-width: 100%;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n    <!--[if gte mso 9]>\n\t<table align=\"center\" border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" width=\"100%\">\n\t<![endif]-->\n\t<tbody class=\"mcnBoxedTextBlockOuter\">\n        <tr>\n            <td valign=\"top\" class=\"mcnBoxedTextBlockInner\" style=\"mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n                \n\t\t\t\t<!--[if gte mso 9]>\n\t\t\t\t<td align=\"center\" valign=\"top\" \">\n\t\t\t\t<![endif]-->\n                <table align=\"left\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\" style=\"min-width: 100%;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\" class=\"mcnBoxedTextContentContainer\">\n                    <tbody><tr>\n                        \n                        <td style=\"padding-top: 9px;padding-left: 18px;padding-bottom: 9px;padding-right: 18px;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n                        \n                            <table border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" class=\"mcnTextContentContainer\" width=\"100%\" style=\"min-width: 100% !important;background-color: #F8D5A8;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n                                <tbody><tr>\n                                    <td valign=\"top\" class=\"mcnTextContent\" style=\"padding: 18px;color: #222222;font-family: Helvetica;font-size: 14px;font-weight: normal;text-align: left;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;word-break: break-word;line-height: 150%;\">\n                                        <div style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00a0<\/div>\n\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size:32px\"><a id=\"Culture\" name=\"Culture\" style=\"mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #007C89;font-weight: normal;text-decoration: underline;\"><\/a><\/span><span style=\"font-size:18px\"><span style=\"font-family:lucida sans unicode,lucida grande,sans-serif\">Register your School today!<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00a0<\/div>\n\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:lucida sans unicode,lucida grande,sans-serif\">Teachers are invited to register their class and\/or school for Maths Week 2021 (16-24 October).\u00a0<br>\nSimply go to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mathsweek.ie\/2021\/register\/\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #007C89;font-weight: normal;text-decoration: underline;\">www.mathsweek.ie<\/a> and complete the short registration form.\u00a0<br>\nAll registered schools are in with a chance to win a set of Izak9 Cubes!\u00a0<\/span><\/span><br>\n\u00a0 \u00a0<img decoding=\"async\" data-file-id=\"1745626\" height=\"190\" src=\"https:\/\/mcusercontent.com\/1e4c696c230483f91e7da02d5\/images\/c3c1ff21-07ab-d5de-e604-966da769be78.jpg\" style=\"border: 0px;width: 266px;height: 190px;margin: 0px;outline: none;text-decoration: none;-ms-interpolation-mode: bicubic;\" width=\"266\"><br>\n<br>\n<span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:lucida sans unicode,lucida grande,sans-serif\">Once your school is registered, check out our range of resources and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mathsweek.ie\/2021\/plan-your-mw2020-event\/\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #007C89;font-weight: normal;text-decoration: underline;\">start planning your Maths Week activities for 2021<\/a>. We have resources to help you run maths trails, a maths puzzle day, a code breaking day, a maths maze and much more, plus we will be bringing back Maths Week TV, featuring your favourite maths presenters!<br>\n<br>\nHow will your school celebrate Maths Week 2021? <\/span><\/span><br>\n\u00a0<\/div>\n\n                                    <\/td>\n                                <\/tr>\n                            <\/tbody><\/table>\n                        <\/td>\n                    <\/tr>\n                <\/tbody><\/table>\n\t\t\t\t<!--[if gte mso 9]>\n\t\t\t\t<\/td>\n\t\t\t\t<![endif]-->\n                \n\t\t\t\t<!--[if gte mso 9]>\n                <\/tr>\n                <\/table>\n\t\t\t\t<![endif]-->\n            <\/td>\n        <\/tr>\n    <\/tbody>\n<\/table><table border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\" class=\"mcnBoxedTextBlock\" style=\"min-width: 100%;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n    <!--[if gte mso 9]>\n\t<table align=\"center\" border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" width=\"100%\">\n\t<![endif]-->\n\t<tbody class=\"mcnBoxedTextBlockOuter\">\n        <tr>\n            <td valign=\"top\" class=\"mcnBoxedTextBlockInner\" style=\"mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n                \n\t\t\t\t<!--[if gte mso 9]>\n\t\t\t\t<td align=\"center\" valign=\"top\" \">\n\t\t\t\t<![endif]-->\n                <table align=\"left\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\" style=\"min-width: 100%;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\" class=\"mcnBoxedTextContentContainer\">\n                    <tbody><tr>\n                        \n                        <td style=\"padding-top: 9px;padding-left: 18px;padding-bottom: 9px;padding-right: 18px;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n                        \n                            <table border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" class=\"mcnTextContentContainer\" width=\"100%\" style=\"min-width: 100% !important;background-color: #C9F8FA;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n                                <tbody><tr>\n                                    <td valign=\"top\" class=\"mcnTextContent\" style=\"padding: 18px;color: #222222;font-family: Helvetica;font-size: 14px;font-weight: normal;text-align: left;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;word-break: break-word;line-height: 150%;\">\n                                        <div style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00a0<\/div>\n\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size:18px\"><strong>Maths Week 2021 Posters<\/strong><\/span><br>\n\u00a0<\/div>\n\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:lucida sans unicode,lucida grande,sans-serif\">Our Maths Week posters are currently on their way to every school on the island!\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\"><br>\n<span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:lucida sans unicode,lucida grande,sans-serif\">Our posters are aimed at different age groups and this year include:<br>\n- Maths in the Jungle for Junior Primary<br>\n- Climate Action with Maths for Senior Primary<br>\n- Maths at Work for Junior Secondary<br>\n- Celebrating Women in Maths for Senior Secondary<br>\n(See thumbnails below)<br>\nAll posters can be viewed and downloaded from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mathsweek.ie\/2021\/posters-2021\/\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #007C89;font-weight: normal;text-decoration: underline;\">our website<\/a>, where we will be posting additional resources for use with the posters.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><br>\n<br>\n\u00a0<\/div>\n\n                                    <\/td>\n                                <\/tr>\n                            <\/tbody><\/table>\n                        <\/td>\n                    <\/tr>\n                <\/tbody><\/table>\n\t\t\t\t<!--[if gte mso 9]>\n\t\t\t\t<\/td>\n\t\t\t\t<![endif]-->\n                \n\t\t\t\t<!--[if gte mso 9]>\n                <\/tr>\n                <\/table>\n\t\t\t\t<![endif]-->\n            <\/td>\n        <\/tr>\n    <\/tbody>\n<\/table><table border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\" class=\"mcnImageGroupBlock\" style=\"border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n    <tbody class=\"mcnImageGroupBlockOuter\">\n        \n            <tr>\n                <td valign=\"top\" style=\"padding: 9px;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\" class=\"mcnImageGroupBlockInner\">\n                    \n                    <table align=\"left\" width=\"273\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" class=\"mcnImageGroupContentContainer\" style=\"border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n                            <tbody><tr>\n                                <td class=\"mcnImageGroupContent\" valign=\"top\" style=\"padding-left: 9px;padding-top: 0;padding-bottom: 0;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n                                \n                                    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mathsweek.ie\/2021\/poster_01_junior-primary\/\" title=\"Junior Primary\" class=\"\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n                                        <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/mcusercontent.com\/1e4c696c230483f91e7da02d5\/images\/eae38d06-a59d-7fb4-166e-99b58ac644c4.png\" width=\"264\" style=\"max-width: 453px;padding-bottom: 0px;border: 1px none;height: auto;outline: none;text-decoration: none;-ms-interpolation-mode: bicubic;vertical-align: bottom;\" class=\"mcnImage\">\n                                    <\/a>\n                                \n                                <\/td>\n                            <\/tr>\n                        <\/tbody><\/table>\n                    \n                    <table align=\"right\" width=\"273\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" class=\"mcnImageGroupContentContainer\" style=\"border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n                            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           <td class=\"mcnImageGroupContent\" valign=\"top\" style=\"padding-right: 9px;padding-top: 0;padding-bottom: 0;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n                                \n                                    \n                                        <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/mcusercontent.com\/1e4c696c230483f91e7da02d5\/images\/003abfb3-997c-0cf9-4d0e-c4dd8c63d0a2.png\" width=\"264\" style=\"max-width: 453px;padding-bottom: 0px;border: 1px none;height: auto;outline: none;text-decoration: none;-ms-interpolation-mode: bicubic;vertical-align: bottom;\" class=\"mcnImage\">\n                                    \n                                \n                                <\/td>\n                            <\/tr>\n                        <\/tbody><\/table>\n                    \n                <\/td>\n            <\/tr>\n        \n    <\/tbody>\n<\/table><table border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\" class=\"mcnImageBlock\" style=\"min-width: 100%;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n    <tbody class=\"mcnImageBlockOuter\">\n            <tr>\n                <td valign=\"top\" style=\"padding: 9px;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\" class=\"mcnImageBlockInner\">\n                    <table align=\"left\" width=\"100%\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" class=\"mcnImageContentContainer\" style=\"min-width: 100%;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n                        <tbody><tr>\n                            <td class=\"mcnImageContent\" valign=\"top\" style=\"padding-right: 9px;padding-left: 9px;padding-top: 0;padding-bottom: 0;text-align: center;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n                                \n                                    \n                                        <img decoding=\"async\" align=\"center\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/mcusercontent.com\/1e4c696c230483f91e7da02d5\/images\/12c6a48f-b9f3-7a8e-afe4-72390bc69730.png\" width=\"453\" style=\"max-width: 453px;padding-bottom: 0;display: inline !important;vertical-align: bottom;border: 0;height: auto;outline: none;text-decoration: none;-ms-interpolation-mode: bicubic;\" class=\"mcnImage\">\n                                    \n                                \n                            <\/td>\n                        <\/tr>\n                    <\/tbody><\/table>\n                <\/td>\n            <\/tr>\n    <\/tbody>\n<\/table><table border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\" class=\"mcnDividerBlock\" style=\"min-width: 100%;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;table-layout: fixed !important;\">\n    <tbody class=\"mcnDividerBlockOuter\">\n        <tr>\n            <td class=\"mcnDividerBlockInner\" style=\"min-width: 100%;padding: 18px;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n                <table class=\"mcnDividerContent\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\" style=\"min-width: 100%;border-top: 2px solid #EAEAEA;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n                    <tbody><tr>\n                        <td style=\"mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n                            <span><\/span>\n                        <\/td>\n                    <\/tr>\n                <\/tbody><\/table>\n<!--            \n                <td class=\"mcnDividerBlockInner\" style=\"padding: 18px;\">\n                <hr class=\"mcnDividerContent\" style=\"border-bottom-color:none; border-left-color:none; border-right-color:none; border-bottom-width:0; border-left-width:0; border-right-width:0; margin-top:0; margin-right:0; margin-bottom:0; margin-left:0;\" \/>\n-->\n            <\/td>\n        <\/tr>\n    <\/tbody>\n<\/table><table border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\" class=\"mcnBoxedTextBlock\" style=\"min-width: 100%;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n    <!--[if gte mso 9]>\n\t<table align=\"center\" border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" width=\"100%\">\n\t<![endif]-->\n\t<tbody class=\"mcnBoxedTextBlockOuter\">\n        <tr>\n            <td valign=\"top\" class=\"mcnBoxedTextBlockInner\" style=\"mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n                \n\t\t\t\t<!--[if gte mso 9]>\n\t\t\t\t<td align=\"center\" valign=\"top\" \">\n\t\t\t\t<![endif]-->\n                <table align=\"left\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\" style=\"min-width: 100%;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\" class=\"mcnBoxedTextContentContainer\">\n                    <tbody><tr>\n                        \n                        <td style=\"padding-top: 9px;padding-left: 18px;padding-bottom: 9px;padding-right: 18px;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n                        \n                            <table border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" class=\"mcnTextContentContainer\" width=\"100%\" style=\"min-width: 100% !important;background-color: #6DCED1;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n                                <tbody><tr>\n                                    <td valign=\"top\" class=\"mcnTextContent\" style=\"padding: 18px;color: #1B1B1E;font-family: Helvetica;font-size: 14px;font-weight: normal;text-align: center;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;word-break: break-word;line-height: 150%;\">\n                                        <span style=\"font-size:24px\"><a id=\"MW2021 updates\" name=\"MW2021 updates\" style=\"mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #007C89;font-weight: normal;text-decoration: underline;\"><\/a><strong><span style=\"font-family:lucida sans unicode,lucida grande,sans-serif\">STEMreach<\/span><\/strong><\/span>\n                                    <\/td>\n                                <\/tr>\n                            <\/tbody><\/table>\n                        <\/td>\n                    <\/tr>\n                <\/tbody><\/table>\n\t\t\t\t<!--[if gte mso 9]>\n\t\t\t\t<\/td>\n\t\t\t\t<![endif]-->\n                \n\t\t\t\t<!--[if gte mso 9]>\n                <\/tr>\n                <\/table>\n\t\t\t\t<![endif]-->\n            <\/td>\n        <\/tr>\n    <\/tbody>\n<\/table><table border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\" class=\"mcnBoxedTextBlock\" style=\"min-width: 100%;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n    <!--[if gte mso 9]>\n\t<table align=\"center\" border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" width=\"100%\">\n\t<![endif]-->\n\t<tbody class=\"mcnBoxedTextBlockOuter\">\n        <tr>\n            <td valign=\"top\" class=\"mcnBoxedTextBlockInner\" style=\"mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n                \n\t\t\t\t<!--[if gte mso 9]>\n\t\t\t\t<td align=\"center\" valign=\"top\" \">\n\t\t\t\t<![endif]-->\n                <table align=\"left\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\" style=\"min-width: 100%;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\" class=\"mcnBoxedTextContentContainer\">\n                    <tbody><tr>\n                        \n                        <td style=\"padding-top: 9px;padding-left: 18px;padding-bottom: 9px;padding-right: 18px;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n                        \n                            <table border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" class=\"mcnTextContentContainer\" width=\"100%\" style=\"min-width: 100% !important;background-color: #C9F8FA;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n                                <tbody><tr>\n                                    <td valign=\"top\" class=\"mcnTextContent\" style=\"padding: 18px;color: #222222;font-family: Helvetica;font-size: 14px;font-weight: normal;text-align: center;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;word-break: break-word;line-height: 150%;\">\n                                        <div style=\"text-align: left;\"><br>\n<img decoding=\"async\" data-file-id=\"1744994\" height=\"408\" src=\"https:\/\/mcusercontent.com\/1e4c696c230483f91e7da02d5\/images\/908cf4d8-8c2d-4c38-96ee-572980861718.png\" style=\"border: 0px;width: 600px;height: 408px;margin: 0px;outline: none;text-decoration: none;-ms-interpolation-mode: bicubic;\" width=\"600\"><br>\n<br>\n<span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:lucida sans unicode,lucida grande,sans-serif\">Looking ahead to the new academic year, the Calmast STEMreach programme will commence once more in September.<br>\nThe initiative was developed to provide sustained engagement through partnership in the South-East in Ireland.<br>\n<br>\nThe STEMreach Creative Problem Solving module is very popular with Transition Year coordinators and maths teachers.\u00a0The STEMreach Sustainability module will also be running this term. Both will be delivered remotely in the Autumn term, so schools anywhere in the country who are interested in participating should enquire. Calmast would also welcome enquires from schools in Northern Ireland.\u00a0\u00a0<br>\n<br>\nIf you are interested in getting involved with STEMreach for TY in the new academic year please email calmast@wit.ie<br>\nFind out more\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.calmast.ie\/stemreach-2\/\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #007C89;font-weight: normal;text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color:#0000FF\">https:\/\/www.calmast.ie\/stemreach-2\/<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n\n                                    <\/td>\n                                <\/tr>\n                            <\/tbody><\/table>\n                        <\/td>\n                    <\/tr>\n                <\/tbody><\/table>\n\t\t\t\t<!--[if gte mso 9]>\n\t\t\t\t<\/td>\n\t\t\t\t<![endif]-->\n                \n\t\t\t\t<!--[if gte mso 9]>\n                <\/tr>\n                <\/table>\n\t\t\t\t<![endif]-->\n            <\/td>\n        <\/tr>\n    <\/tbody>\n<\/table><table border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\" class=\"mcnDividerBlock\" style=\"min-width: 100%;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;table-layout: fixed !important;\">\n    <tbody class=\"mcnDividerBlockOuter\">\n        <tr>\n            <td class=\"mcnDividerBlockInner\" style=\"min-width: 100%;padding: 18px 18px 36px;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n                <table class=\"mcnDividerContent\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\" style=\"min-width: 100%;border-top: 2px solid #EAEAEA;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n                    <tbody><tr>\n                        <td style=\"mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n                            <span><\/span>\n                        <\/td>\n                    <\/tr>\n                <\/tbody><\/table>\n<!--            \n                <td class=\"mcnDividerBlockInner\" style=\"padding: 18px;\">\n                <hr class=\"mcnDividerContent\" style=\"border-bottom-color:none; border-left-color:none; border-right-color:none; border-bottom-width:0; border-left-width:0; border-right-width:0; margin-top:0; margin-right:0; margin-bottom:0; margin-left:0;\" \/>\n-->\n            <\/td>\n        <\/tr>\n    <\/tbody>\n<\/table><table border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\" class=\"mcnBoxedTextBlock\" style=\"min-width: 100%;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n    <!--[if gte mso 9]>\n\t<table align=\"center\" border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" width=\"100%\">\n\t<![endif]-->\n\t<tbody class=\"mcnBoxedTextBlockOuter\">\n        <tr>\n            <td valign=\"top\" class=\"mcnBoxedTextBlockInner\" style=\"mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n                \n\t\t\t\t<!--[if gte mso 9]>\n\t\t\t\t<td align=\"center\" valign=\"top\" \">\n\t\t\t\t<![endif]-->\n                <table align=\"left\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\" style=\"min-width: 100%;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\" class=\"mcnBoxedTextContentContainer\">\n                    <tbody><tr>\n                        \n                        <td style=\"padding-top: 9px;padding-left: 18px;padding-bottom: 9px;padding-right: 18px;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n                        \n                            <table border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" class=\"mcnTextContentContainer\" width=\"100%\" style=\"min-width: 100% !important;background-color: #6DCED1;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n                                <tbody><tr>\n                                    <td valign=\"top\" class=\"mcnTextContent\" style=\"padding: 18px;color: #1B1B1E;font-family: Helvetica;font-size: 14px;font-weight: normal;text-align: center;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;word-break: break-word;line-height: 150%;\">\n                                        <span style=\"font-size:24px\"><a id=\"MW2021 updates\" name=\"MW2021 updates\" style=\"mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #007C89;font-weight: normal;text-decoration: underline;\"><\/a><strong><span style=\"font-family:lucida sans unicode,lucida grande,sans-serif\">Schools News<\/span><\/strong><\/span>\n                                    <\/td>\n                                <\/tr>\n                            <\/tbody><\/table>\n                        <\/td>\n                    <\/tr>\n                <\/tbody><\/table>\n\t\t\t\t<!--[if gte mso 9]>\n\t\t\t\t<\/td>\n\t\t\t\t<![endif]-->\n                \n\t\t\t\t<!--[if gte mso 9]>\n                <\/tr>\n                <\/table>\n\t\t\t\t<![endif]-->\n            <\/td>\n        <\/tr>\n    <\/tbody>\n<\/table><table border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\" class=\"mcnBoxedTextBlock\" style=\"min-width: 100%;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n    <!--[if gte mso 9]>\n\t<table align=\"center\" border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" width=\"100%\">\n\t<![endif]-->\n\t<tbody class=\"mcnBoxedTextBlockOuter\">\n        <tr>\n            <td valign=\"top\" class=\"mcnBoxedTextBlockInner\" style=\"mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n                \n\t\t\t\t<!--[if gte mso 9]>\n\t\t\t\t<td align=\"center\" valign=\"top\" \">\n\t\t\t\t<![endif]-->\n                <table align=\"left\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\" style=\"min-width: 100%;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\" class=\"mcnBoxedTextContentContainer\">\n                    <tbody><tr>\n                        \n                        <td style=\"padding-top: 9px;padding-left: 18px;padding-bottom: 9px;padding-right: 18px;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n                        \n                            <table border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" class=\"mcnTextContentContainer\" width=\"100%\" style=\"min-width: 100% !important;background-color: #F8D5A8;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n                                <tbody><tr>\n                                    <td valign=\"top\" class=\"mcnTextContent\" style=\"padding: 18px;color: #222222;font-family: Helvetica;font-size: 14px;font-weight: normal;text-align: left;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;word-break: break-word;line-height: 150%;\">\n                                        <h1 class=\"null\" style=\"text-align: left;display: block;margin: 0;padding: 0;color: #222222;font-family: Helvetica;font-size: 40px;font-style: normal;font-weight: bold;line-height: 150%;letter-spacing: normal;\"><span style=\"font-family:lucida sans unicode,lucida grande,sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size:18px\"><strong>Schools News -North<\/strong><\/span><\/span><br>\n<span style=\"font-size:14px\">Well done to students who received\u00a0CCEA, AS, A level and GCSE\u00a0results earlier this month.<\/span><\/h1>\n\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<ul>\n\t<li lang=\"EN-US\" paraeid=\"{f9a7855b-f76e-4e95-828f-f6922ff457a4}{220}\" paraid=\"1529993421\" style=\"text-align: left;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">About 25,000 pupils received A-level and AS-level results. Almost 51% of A-level entries were awarded A* or A grades,\u00a0which is\u00a0a record and a rise from about 45% in 2020.<\/span><\/li>\n\t<li lang=\"EN-US\" paraeid=\"{f9a7855b-f76e-4e95-828f-f6922ff457a4}{220}\" paraid=\"1529993421\" style=\"text-align: left;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:lucida sans unicode,lucida grande,sans-serif\">About 29,000 students in Northern Ireland received their GCSE results.\u00a0Grades A* and A were awarded to just under 40% of\u00a0GCSE\u00a0entries, which is up from 37.1% in 2020.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n\t<li lang=\"EN-US\" paraeid=\"{f9a7855b-f76e-4e95-828f-f6922ff457a4}{220}\" paraid=\"1529993421\" style=\"text-align: left;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:lucida sans unicode,lucida grande,sans-serif\">Mathematics was the most popular A Level subject,\u00a0followed by Biology, Religious Studies, History and English.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n\t<li lang=\"EN-US\" paraeid=\"{f9a7855b-f76e-4e95-828f-f6922ff457a4}{220}\" paraid=\"1529993421\" style=\"text-align: left;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:lucida sans unicode,lucida grande,sans-serif\">There has been a significant increase in girls taking on STEM subjects, with increases in Biology, Chemistry, Physics,\u00a0Maths and Design and Technology.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n\t<li lang=\"EN-US\" paraeid=\"{f9a7855b-f76e-4e95-828f-f6922ff457a4}{220}\" paraid=\"1529993421\" style=\"text-align: left;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:lucida sans unicode,lucida grande,sans-serif\">At GCSE level,\u00a0STEM\u00a0subjects accounted for 42% of all GCSE entries in 2021, an increase of 3.9% on the previous year.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<h1 class=\"null\" style=\"text-align: left;display: block;margin: 0;padding: 0;color: #222222;font-family: Helvetica;font-size: 40px;font-style: normal;font-weight: bold;line-height: 150%;letter-spacing: normal;\"><span style=\"font-family:lucida sans unicode,lucida grande,sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size:18px\"><strong>Schools News - South<br>\nPrimary:<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/h1>\n\n<p paraeid=\"{4745e3ed-6ee8-4eec-9d6d-1438801badb5}{112}\" paraid=\"1430035286\" style=\"text-align: left;color: #222222;font-family: Helvetica;font-size: 14px;font-weight: normal;margin: 10px 0;padding: 0;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;line-height: 150%;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:lucida sans unicode,lucida grande,sans-serif\">Primary schools are set to fully reopen again this week across the country.\u00a0<br>\nWe wish teachers, pupils and parents a positive start to the new school term.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n\n<h1 class=\"null\" paraeid=\"{4745e3ed-6ee8-4eec-9d6d-1438801badb5}{124}\" paraid=\"1336605693\" style=\"text-align: left;display: block;margin: 0;padding: 0;color: #222222;font-family: Helvetica;font-size: 40px;font-style: normal;font-weight: bold;line-height: 150%;letter-spacing: normal;\"><span style=\"font-family:lucida sans unicode,lucida grande,sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size:18px\">Secondary:<\/span><\/span><\/h1>\n\n<p paraeid=\"{46cd8b3d-2306-4cdf-82c9-3a4054aa65c0}{174}\" paraid=\"1113605996\" style=\"text-align: left;color: #222222;font-family: Helvetica;font-size: 14px;font-weight: normal;margin: 10px 0;padding: 0;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;line-height: 150%;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:lucida sans unicode,lucida grande,sans-serif\">LEAVING CERTIFICATE STUDENTS will get their results\u00a0later this week\u00a0on 3 September.\u00a0Best of luck!\u00a0<br>\n<br>\n<u>CAO choices 2021:<\/u><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n\n<ul>\n\t<li paraeid=\"{46cd8b3d-2306-4cdf-82c9-3a4054aa65c0}{180}\" paraid=\"2092619829\" style=\"text-align: left;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:lucida sans unicode,lucida grande,sans-serif\">There has been an\u00a0increase of 15%\u00a0in first-preference choices for nursing, pharmacy and medicine. Biological and related sciences are up in first preferences to 3,698, an increase of 16%\u00a0on 2020.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n\t<li paraeid=\"{46cd8b3d-2306-4cdf-82c9-3a4054aa65c0}{188}\" paraid=\"1979844359\" style=\"text-align: left;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:lucida sans unicode,lucida grande,sans-serif\">Trinity\u00a0College\u00a0Dublin\u00a0has\u00a0noted first-preference applications for computer science\u00a0are\u00a0up 56%\u00a0and engineering 44%. Medicine\u00a0applications\u00a0rose by 58%, with gains also recorded across dentistry, science, pharmacy and physiotherapy.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n\t<li paraeid=\"{46cd8b3d-2306-4cdf-82c9-3a4054aa65c0}{194}\" paraid=\"497715871\" style=\"text-align: left;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:lucida sans unicode,lucida grande,sans-serif\">UCD\u00a0has had\u00a0increases in radiography (up 188%) and sustainability (up\u00a0124%). Common entry degrees in engineering, science and computer science also all recorded gains.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<p paraeid=\"{46cd8b3d-2306-4cdf-82c9-3a4054aa65c0}{232}\" paraid=\"1663174781\" style=\"text-align: left;color: #222222;font-family: Helvetica;font-size: 14px;font-weight: normal;margin: 10px 0;padding: 0;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;line-height: 150%;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n                                    <\/td>\n                                <\/tr>\n                            <\/tbody><\/table>\n                        <\/td>\n                    <\/tr>\n                <\/tbody><\/table>\n\t\t\t\t<!--[if gte mso 9]>\n\t\t\t\t<\/td>\n\t\t\t\t<![endif]-->\n                \n\t\t\t\t<!--[if gte mso 9]>\n                <\/tr>\n                <\/table>\n\t\t\t\t<![endif]-->\n            <\/td>\n        <\/tr>\n    <\/tbody>\n<\/table><table border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" 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 <span style=\"font-family:lucida sans unicode,lucida grande,sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size:18px\"><strong>TargetBoards<\/strong><\/span><\/span><br>\n<img decoding=\"async\" data-file-id=\"1741317\" height=\"121\" src=\"https:\/\/gallery.mailchimp.com\/1e4c696c230483f91e7da02d5\/images\/b0c6c62b-eb4b-4331-bda0-e459e354f6c6.png\" style=\"border: 0px;width: 300px;height: 121px;margin: 0px;outline: none;text-decoration: none;-ms-interpolation-mode: bicubic;\" width=\"300\"><br>\n<br>\n<span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:lucida sans unicode,lucida grande,sans-serif\">The autumn term TargetBoard is now live on www.mathsweek.ie.<br>\nTake part now to get your school on the leader board!<\/span><\/span>\n                                    <\/td>\n                                <\/tr>\n                            <\/tbody><\/table>\n                        <\/td>\n                    <\/tr>\n                <\/tbody><\/table>\n\t\t\t\t<!--[if gte mso 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0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n                    <tbody><tr>\n                        <td style=\"mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n                            <span><\/span>\n                        <\/td>\n                    <\/tr>\n                <\/tbody><\/table>\n<!--            \n                <td class=\"mcnDividerBlockInner\" style=\"padding: 18px;\">\n                <hr class=\"mcnDividerContent\" style=\"border-bottom-color:none; border-left-color:none; border-right-color:none; border-bottom-width:0; border-left-width:0; border-right-width:0; margin-top:0; margin-right:0; margin-bottom:0; margin-left:0;\" \/>\n-->\n            <\/td>\n        <\/tr>\n    <\/tbody>\n<\/table><table border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\" class=\"mcnBoxedTextBlock\" style=\"min-width: 100%;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 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9px;padding-right: 18px;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n                        \n                            <table border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" class=\"mcnTextContentContainer\" width=\"100%\" style=\"min-width: 100% !important;background-color: #6DCED1;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n                                <tbody><tr>\n                                    <td valign=\"top\" class=\"mcnTextContent\" style=\"padding: 18px;color: #1B1B1E;font-family: Helvetica;font-size: 14px;font-weight: normal;text-align: center;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;word-break: break-word;line-height: 150%;\">\n                                        <span style=\"font-size:24px\"><a id=\"MW2021 updates\" name=\"MW2021 updates\" style=\"mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #007C89;font-weight: normal;text-decoration: underline;\"><\/a><strong><span style=\"font-family:lucida sans unicode,lucida grande,sans-serif\">Maths Resources<\/span><\/strong><\/span>\n                                    <\/td>\n                                <\/tr>\n                            <\/tbody><\/table>\n                        <\/td>\n                    <\/tr>\n                <\/tbody><\/table>\n\t\t\t\t<!--[if gte mso 9]>\n\t\t\t\t<\/td>\n\t\t\t\t<![endif]-->\n                \n\t\t\t\t<!--[if gte mso 9]>\n                <\/tr>\n                <\/table>\n\t\t\t\t<![endif]-->\n            <\/td>\n        <\/tr>\n    <\/tbody>\n<\/table><table border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\" class=\"mcnBoxedTextBlock\" style=\"min-width: 100%;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n    <!--[if gte mso 9]>\n\t<table align=\"center\" border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" width=\"100%\">\n\t<![endif]-->\n\t<tbody class=\"mcnBoxedTextBlockOuter\">\n        <tr>\n            <td valign=\"top\" class=\"mcnBoxedTextBlockInner\" style=\"mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n                \n\t\t\t\t<!--[if gte mso 9]>\n\t\t\t\t<td align=\"center\" valign=\"top\" \">\n\t\t\t\t<![endif]-->\n                <table align=\"left\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\" style=\"min-width: 100%;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\" class=\"mcnBoxedTextContentContainer\">\n                    <tbody><tr>\n                        \n                        <td style=\"padding-top: 9px;padding-left: 18px;padding-bottom: 9px;padding-right: 18px;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n                        \n                            <table border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" class=\"mcnTextContentContainer\" width=\"100%\" style=\"min-width: 100% !important;background-color: #C9F8FA;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n                                <tbody><tr>\n                                    <td valign=\"top\" class=\"mcnTextContent\" style=\"padding: 18px;color: #222222;font-family: Helvetica;font-size: 14px;font-weight: normal;text-align: center;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;word-break: break-word;line-height: 150%;\">\n                                        <strong><img decoding=\"async\" data-file-id=\"1744866\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/mcusercontent.com\/1e4c696c230483f91e7da02d5\/images\/1ec364fe-b546-40b4-bcbe-b1ea569d8647.jpg\" style=\"border: 0px;width: 300px;height: 300px;margin: 0px;float: left;outline: none;text-decoration: none;-ms-interpolation-mode: bicubic;\" width=\"300\"><\/strong>\n\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size:18px\">Maths at Home<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">We have developed a series of age appropriate resources to help support the learning of maths at home. You can catch up on all the activities we have released to date at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mathsweek.ie\/2020\/maths-activities\/\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #007C89;font-weight: normal;text-decoration: underline;\">https:\/\/www.mathsweek.ie\/2021\/maths-activities\/<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n\n                                    <\/td>\n                                <\/tr>\n                            <\/tbody><\/table>\n                        <\/td>\n                    <\/tr>\n                <\/tbody><\/table>\n\t\t\t\t<!--[if gte mso 9]>\n\t\t\t\t<\/td>\n\t\t\t\t<![endif]-->\n                \n\t\t\t\t<!--[if gte mso 9]>\n                <\/tr>\n                <\/table>\n\t\t\t\t<![endif]-->\n            <\/td>\n        <\/tr>\n    <\/tbody>\n<\/table><table border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\" class=\"mcnBoxedTextBlock\" style=\"min-width: 100%;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n    <!--[if gte mso 9]>\n\t<table align=\"center\" border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" width=\"100%\">\n\t<![endif]-->\n\t<tbody class=\"mcnBoxedTextBlockOuter\">\n        <tr>\n            <td valign=\"top\" class=\"mcnBoxedTextBlockInner\" style=\"mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n                \n\t\t\t\t<!--[if gte mso 9]>\n\t\t\t\t<td align=\"center\" valign=\"top\" \">\n\t\t\t\t<![endif]-->\n                <table align=\"left\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\" style=\"min-width: 100%;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\" class=\"mcnBoxedTextContentContainer\">\n                    <tbody><tr>\n                        \n                        <td style=\"padding-top: 9px;padding-left: 18px;padding-bottom: 9px;padding-right: 18px;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n                        \n                            <table border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" class=\"mcnTextContentContainer\" width=\"100%\" style=\"min-width: 100% !important;background-color: #C9F8FA;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n                                <tbody><tr>\n                                    <td valign=\"top\" class=\"mcnTextContent\" style=\"padding: 18px;color: #222222;font-family: Helvetica;font-size: 14px;font-weight: normal;text-align: center;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;word-break: break-word;line-height: 150%;\">\n                                        <br>\n<span style=\"font-family:lucida sans unicode,lucida grande,sans-serif\"><strong><span style=\"font-size:18px\">Maths Games<\/span><\/strong><br>\n<span style=\"font-size:14px\">Visit www.mathsweek.ie for a range of maths-based games, including simultaneous\u00a0simultaneous\u00a0equations, shape matching, puzzles and much more!<br>\n\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mathsweek.ie\/2020\/maths-activities\/\" style=\"color: #000000;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;font-weight: normal;text-decoration: underline;\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.mathsweek.ie\/2021\/maths-activities\/<\/a><\/span><br>\n<br>\n<img decoding=\"async\" data-file-id=\"1745694\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/mcusercontent.com\/1e4c696c230483f91e7da02d5\/images\/58435ce8-447d-8b4b-7e62-398dbb53577c.png\" style=\"border: 0px;width: 500px;height: 281px;margin: 0px;outline: none;text-decoration: none;-ms-interpolation-mode: bicubic;\" width=\"500\"><\/span>\n                                    <\/td>\n                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presents monthly online events.\u00a0 The \"Celebration of Mind\" events are of excellent quality and cover maths, art, magic and more.<\/span><\/font><\/div>\n<font color=\"#5d707f\" face=\"lucida sans unicode, lucida grande, sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">Information on events can be found\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gathering4gardner.org\/category\/com-virtual-events\/\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #007C89;font-weight: normal;text-decoration: underline;\">here\u00a0<\/a><br>\nPrevious events can be viewed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/c\/G4GCelebration\/videos\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #007C89;font-weight: normal;text-decoration: underline;\">here\u00a0<\/a><\/span><\/font>\n                                    <\/td>\n                                <\/tr>\n                   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class=\"mcnTextContent\" style=\"padding: 18px;color: #222222;font-family: Helvetica;font-size: 14px;font-weight: normal;text-align: left;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;word-break: break-word;line-height: 150%;\">\n                                        <h1 class=\"null\" style=\"display: block;margin: 0;padding: 0;color: #222222;font-family: Helvetica;font-size: 40px;font-style: normal;font-weight: bold;line-height: 150%;letter-spacing: normal;text-align: center;\"><a id=\"Bodmas answer\" name=\"Bodmas answer\" style=\"mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #007C89;font-weight: normal;text-decoration: underline;\"><\/a><span style=\"font-size:18px\"><span style=\"font-family:lucida sans unicode,lucida grande,sans-serif\">Congratulations to Prof Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell on\u00a0being awarded\u00a0the Copley Medal!\u00a0<\/span><\/span><br>\n<img decoding=\"async\" align=\"right\" data-file-id=\"1745630\" height=\"225\" src=\"https:\/\/mcusercontent.com\/1e4c696c230483f91e7da02d5\/images\/491c4c5a-7128-94ee-02e9-6b038439f7fd.jpg\" style=\"border: 0px initial;width: 300px;height: 225px;margin: 0px;outline: none;text-decoration: none;-ms-interpolation-mode: bicubic;\" width=\"300\"><\/h1>\n\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<p paraeid=\"{e1f192ba-5d91-4275-b4e4-eaf5eafe3cdc}{32}\" paraid=\"1075777864\" style=\"color: #222222;font-family: Helvetica;font-size: 14px;font-weight: normal;text-align: left;margin: 10px 0;padding: 0;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;line-height: 150%;\"><br>\n<br>\n<span style=\"font-family:lucida sans unicode,lucida grande,sans-serif\">Prof Bell Burnell\u00a0has received the award for her work on the discovery of pulsars, and in doing so becomes the\u00a0second female to be awarded the\u00a0world\u2019s oldest scientific prize.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><br>\n<br>\n<span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:lucida sans unicode,lucida grande,sans-serif\">The award includes a \u00a325,000 gift which Dame Jocelyn will add to Institute of Physics'\u00a0Bell Burnell Graduate Scholarship Fund,\u00a0providing grants to graduate students from under-represented groups in physics.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><br>\n<br>\n<br>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n\n<p paraeid=\"{e1f192ba-5d91-4275-b4e4-eaf5eafe3cdc}{42}\" paraid=\"1233720522\" style=\"color: #222222;font-family: Helvetica;font-size: 14px;font-weight: normal;text-align: left;margin: 10px 0;padding: 0;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;line-height: 150%;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:lucida sans unicode,lucida grande,sans-serif\">Prof Bell Burnell said on winning the award \u201cWith many more women having successful careers in science, and gaining recognition for their transformational work, I hope there will be many more female Copley winners in the near future.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n\n<p paraeid=\"{e1f192ba-5d91-4275-b4e4-eaf5eafe3cdc}{50}\" paraid=\"811779159\" style=\"color: #222222;font-family: Helvetica;font-size: 14px;font-weight: normal;text-align: left;margin: 10px 0;padding: 0;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;line-height: 150%;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:lucida sans unicode,lucida grande,sans-serif\">\u201cMy career has not fitted a conventional \u2013 male \u2013 pattern. Being the first person to identify pulsars would be the highlight of any career; but I have also swung sledgehammers and built radio telescopes; set up a successful group of my own studying binary stars; and was the first female president of the Institute of Physics and of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n\n<p paraeid=\"{e1f192ba-5d91-4275-b4e4-eaf5eafe3cdc}{56}\" paraid=\"1276708665\" style=\"color: #222222;font-family: Helvetica;font-size: 14px;font-weight: normal;text-align: left;margin: 10px 0;padding: 0;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;line-height: 150%;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:lucida sans unicode,lucida grande,sans-serif\">\u201cI hope that my work and presence as a senior woman in science continues to encourage more women to pursue scientific careers.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n\n<p paraeid=\"{e1f192ba-5d91-4275-b4e4-eaf5eafe3cdc}{62}\" paraid=\"968951276\" style=\"color: #222222;font-family: Helvetica;font-size: 14px;font-weight: normal;text-align: left;margin: 10px 0;padding: 0;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;line-height: 150%;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:lucida sans unicode,lucida grande,sans-serif\">If you would like to hear more about the discovery of radio pulsars and Jocelyn\u2019s work, you can watch her talk from Robert Boyle Summer School June 2021 here:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.robertboyle.ie\/programme_2021\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #007C89;font-weight: normal;text-decoration: underline;\">http:\/\/www.robertboyle.ie\/programme_2021\/<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.robertboyle.ie\/programme_2021\/\u00a0\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #007C89;font-weight: normal;text-decoration: underline;\">\u00a0<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n                                    <\/td>\n                                <\/tr>\n                            <\/tbody><\/table>\n                        <\/td>\n                    <\/tr>\n                <\/tbody><\/table>\n\t\t\t\t<!--[if gte mso 9]>\n\t\t\t\t<\/td>\n\t\t\t\t<![endif]-->\n                \n\t\t\t\t<!--[if gte mso 9]>\n                <\/tr>\n                <\/table>\n\t\t\t\t<![endif]-->\n            <\/td>\n        <\/tr>\n    <\/tbody>\n<\/table><table border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\" class=\"mcnBoxedTextBlock\" style=\"min-width: 100%;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n    <!--[if gte mso 9]>\n\t<table align=\"center\" border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" width=\"100%\">\n\t<![endif]-->\n\t<tbody class=\"mcnBoxedTextBlockOuter\">\n        <tr>\n            <td valign=\"top\" class=\"mcnBoxedTextBlockInner\" style=\"mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n                \n\t\t\t\t<!--[if gte mso 9]>\n\t\t\t\t<td align=\"center\" valign=\"top\" \">\n\t\t\t\t<![endif]-->\n                <table align=\"left\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\" style=\"min-width: 100%;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\" class=\"mcnBoxedTextContentContainer\">\n                    <tbody><tr>\n                        \n                        <td style=\"padding-top: 9px;padding-left: 18px;padding-bottom: 9px;padding-right: 18px;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n                        \n                            <table border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" class=\"mcnTextContentContainer\" width=\"100%\" style=\"min-width: 100% !important;background-color: #C9F8FA;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n                                <tbody><tr>\n                                    <td valign=\"top\" class=\"mcnTextContent\" style=\"padding: 18px;color: #222222;font-family: Helvetica;font-size: 14px;font-weight: normal;text-align: left;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;word-break: break-word;line-height: 150%;\">\n                                        <h1 style=\"display: block;margin: 0;padding: 0;color: #222222;font-family: Helvetica;font-size: 40px;font-style: normal;font-weight: bold;line-height: 150%;letter-spacing: normal;text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color:#FFFF00\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-file-id=\"1745418\" height=\"328\" src=\"https:\/\/mcusercontent.com\/1e4c696c230483f91e7da02d5\/images\/8809ba59-1989-728f-5d51-0c9ec79da18d.jpg\" style=\"border: 0px;width: 500px;height: 328px;margin: 0px;outline: none;text-decoration: none;-ms-interpolation-mode: bicubic;\" width=\"500\"><\/span><\/h1>\n\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:lucida sans unicode,lucida grande,sans-serif\">The Irish government has just launched plans to stimulate a national conversation on research and science.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: left;color: #222222;font-family: Helvetica;font-size: 14px;font-weight: normal;margin: 10px 0;padding: 0;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;line-height: 150%;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:lucida sans unicode,lucida grande,sans-serif\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/creatingourfuture.ie\/\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #007C89;font-weight: normal;text-decoration: underline;\">Creating our Future<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0aims to build on the success of research and science in our battle against Covid-19 and ask the public how we can shape a better Ireland through research and science.The conversation will begin in July and will run until November and will be overseen by an Advisory Forum, which was convened\u00a0 by Minister Simon Harris.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: left;color: #222222;font-family: Helvetica;font-size: 14px;font-weight: normal;margin: 10px 0;padding: 0;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;line-height: 150%;\"><br>\n<span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:lucida sans unicode,lucida grande,sans-serif\">The programme will be managed by SFI and we would encourage people to get involved and in particular would urge people to voice the importance of mathematics and its applications.\u00a0<br>\n<br>\nSee <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sfi.ie\/research-news\/news\/creating-our-future\/index.xml\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #007C89;font-weight: normal;text-decoration: underline;\">here for more details<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n\n                                    <\/td>\n                                <\/tr>\n                            <\/tbody><\/table>\n                        <\/td>\n                    <\/tr>\n                <\/tbody><\/table>\n\t\t\t\t<!--[if gte mso 9]>\n\t\t\t\t<\/td>\n\t\t\t\t<![endif]-->\n                \n\t\t\t\t<!--[if gte mso 9]>\n                <\/tr>\n                <\/table>\n\t\t\t\t<![endif]-->\n            <\/td>\n        <\/tr>\n    <\/tbody>\n<\/table><table border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\" class=\"mcnBoxedTextBlock\" style=\"min-width: 100%;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n    <!--[if gte mso 9]>\n\t<table align=\"center\" border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" width=\"100%\">\n\t<![endif]-->\n\t<tbody class=\"mcnBoxedTextBlockOuter\">\n        <tr>\n            <td valign=\"top\" class=\"mcnBoxedTextBlockInner\" style=\"mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n                \n\t\t\t\t<!--[if gte mso 9]>\n\t\t\t\t<td align=\"center\" valign=\"top\" \">\n\t\t\t\t<![endif]-->\n                <table align=\"left\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\" style=\"min-width: 100%;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\" class=\"mcnBoxedTextContentContainer\">\n                    <tbody><tr>\n                        \n                        <td style=\"padding-top: 9px;padding-left: 18px;padding-bottom: 9px;padding-right: 18px;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n                        \n                            <table border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" class=\"mcnTextContentContainer\" width=\"100%\" style=\"min-width: 100% !important;background-color: #F8D5A8;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n                                <tbody><tr>\n                                    <td valign=\"top\" class=\"mcnTextContent\" style=\"padding: 18px;color: #222222;font-family: Helvetica;font-size: 14px;font-weight: normal;text-align: left;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;word-break: break-word;line-height: 150%;\">\n                                        <h2 class=\"null\" style=\"text-align: center;display: block;margin: 0;padding: 0;color: #222222;font-family: Helvetica;font-size: 34px;font-style: normal;font-weight: bold;line-height: 150%;letter-spacing: normal;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size:18px\"><span style=\"font-family:lucida sans unicode,lucida grande,sans-serif\">Lack of math education negatively affects adolescent brain and development\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/h2>\n<br>\n<span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:lucida sans unicode,lucida grande,sans-serif\">A new study (published in the\u00a0<\/span><\/span><em>Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences)<\/em><font face=\"lucida sans unicode, lucida grande, sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">\u00a0suggests that not having any math education after the age of 16 could be disadvantageous.\u00a0133 students between the ages of 14-18 took part in an experiment run by researchers from the Department of Experimental Psychology at the University of Oxford.\u00a0<\/span><\/font><br>\n<font face=\"lucida sans unicode, lucida grande, sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">Young people in the UK don't have to study maths after GCSEs, which is different from most countries.\u00a0The study found that students who didn't study\u00a0maths\u00a0had a lower amount of a crucial chemical for brain plasticity (gamma-Aminobutyric acid\u00a0or GABA) in a brain region involved in many\u00a0cognitive functions, including reasoning, problem solving,\u00a0maths, memory and learning.\u00a0Researchers were able to discriminate between adolescents who studied or did not study\u00a0maths, independent of their cognitive abilities\u00a0and based on the amounts of\u00a0GABA\u00a0found.\u00a0Additionally, the amount of\u00a0GABA\u00a0accurately predicted changes in\u00a0maths\u00a0attainment scores\u00a0more than a year later.\u00a0<\/span><\/font><br>\n<br>\n<font face=\"lucida sans unicode, lucida grande, sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">The aim of the research is to understand the relationship between learning and brain plasticity, with a particular focus on this through critical developmental periods. Of course, we strongly believe that it is beneficial\u00a0for all to study maths, but it would be unwise to draw conclusions at this stage. It is an interesting possibility that\u00a0 maths education could be of benefit for overall brain development.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/font><br>\n<font face=\"lucida sans unicode, lucida grande, sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">Read more <\/span><\/font><a href=\"http:\/\/https:\/\/www.sciencedaily.com\/releases\/2021\/06\/210607161149.htm  \" style=\"font-family: \"lucida sans unicode\", \"lucida grande\", sans-serif;font-size: 14px;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #007C89;font-weight: normal;text-decoration: underline;\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedaily.com\/releases\/2021\/06\/210607161149.htm\" style=\"font-family: \"lucida sans unicode\", \"lucida grande\", sans-serif;font-size: 14px;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #007C89;font-weight: normal;text-decoration: underline;\" target=\"_blank\">.<\/a><font face=\"lucida sans unicode, lucida grande, sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">\u00a0<\/span><\/font>\n                                    <\/td>\n                                <\/tr>\n                            <\/tbody><\/table>\n                        <\/td>\n                    <\/tr>\n                <\/tbody><\/table>\n\t\t\t\t<!--[if gte mso 9]>\n\t\t\t\t<\/td>\n\t\t\t\t<![endif]-->\n                \n\t\t\t\t<!--[if gte mso 9]>\n                <\/tr>\n                <\/table>\n\t\t\t\t<![endif]-->\n            <\/td>\n        <\/tr>\n    <\/tbody>\n<\/table><table border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\" class=\"mcnTextBlock\" style=\"min-width: 100%;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n    <tbody class=\"mcnTextBlockOuter\">\n        <tr>\n            <td valign=\"top\" class=\"mcnTextBlockInner\" style=\"padding-top: 9px;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n              \t<!--[if mso]>\n\t\t\t\t<table align=\"left\" border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" width=\"100%\" style=\"width:100%;\">\n\t\t\t\t<tr>\n\t\t\t\t<![endif]-->\n\t\t\t    \n\t\t\t\t<!--[if mso]>\n\t\t\t\t<td valign=\"top\" width=\"600\" style=\"width:600px;\">\n\t\t\t\t<![endif]-->\n                <table align=\"left\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" style=\"max-width: 100%;min-width: 100%;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\" width=\"100%\" class=\"mcnTextContentContainer\">\n                    <tbody><tr>\n                        \n                        <td valign=\"top\" class=\"mcnTextContent\" style=\"padding-top: 0;padding-right: 18px;padding-bottom: 9px;padding-left: 18px;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;word-break: break-word;color: #757575;font-family: Helvetica;font-size: 16px;line-height: 150%;text-align: left;\">\n                        \n                            \n                        <\/td>\n                    <\/tr>\n                <\/tbody><\/table>\n\t\t\t\t<!--[if mso]>\n\t\t\t\t<\/td>\n\t\t\t\t<![endif]-->\n                \n\t\t\t\t<!--[if mso]>\n\t\t\t\t<\/tr>\n\t\t\t\t<\/table>\n\t\t\t\t<![endif]-->\n            <\/td>\n        <\/tr>\n    <\/tbody>\n<\/table><table border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\" class=\"mcnBoxedTextBlock\" style=\"min-width: 100%;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n    <!--[if gte mso 9]>\n\t<table align=\"center\" border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" width=\"100%\">\n\t<![endif]-->\n\t<tbody class=\"mcnBoxedTextBlockOuter\">\n        <tr>\n            <td valign=\"top\" class=\"mcnBoxedTextBlockInner\" style=\"mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n                \n\t\t\t\t<!--[if gte mso 9]>\n\t\t\t\t<td align=\"center\" valign=\"top\" \">\n\t\t\t\t<![endif]-->\n                <table align=\"left\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\" style=\"min-width: 100%;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\" class=\"mcnBoxedTextContentContainer\">\n                    <tbody><tr>\n                        \n                        <td style=\"padding-top: 9px;padding-left: 18px;padding-bottom: 9px;padding-right: 18px;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n                        \n                            <table border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" class=\"mcnTextContentContainer\" width=\"100%\" style=\"min-width: 100% !important;background-color: #C9F8FA;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n                                <tbody><tr>\n                                    <td valign=\"top\" class=\"mcnTextContent\" style=\"padding: 18px;color: #222222;font-family: Helvetica;font-size: 14px;font-weight: normal;text-align: left;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;word-break: break-word;line-height: 150%;\">\n                                        <img decoding=\"async\" align=\"right\" data-file-id=\"1745606\" height=\"326\" src=\"https:\/\/mcusercontent.com\/1e4c696c230483f91e7da02d5\/images\/43d38fa8-a0ac-a2fe-9337-06cf18e52830.png\" style=\"border: 0px;width: 300px;height: 326px;margin: 0px 0px 0px 10px;outline: none;text-decoration: none;-ms-interpolation-mode: bicubic;\" width=\"300\"><span style=\"font-family:lucida sans unicode,lucida grande,sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size:18px\"><strong>The Maths Map of Ireland<\/strong><\/span><br>\n\u00a0<br>\n<span style=\"font-size:14px\">The Maths Map of Ireland is an exciting new project from Maths Week Ireland and the ESB. The project will see the creation of a Maths Map; to include historical places and people relevant to maths; maths trails and contemporary maths figures and places of interest.\u00a0<br>\n<br>\nIf you are interested in contributing please email <span style=\"color:#FF0000\">mathsweek@wit.ie <\/span>with the subject MATHS MAP.\u00a0<\/span><\/span>\n                                    <\/td>\n                                <\/tr>\n                            <\/tbody><\/table>\n                        <\/td>\n                    <\/tr>\n                <\/tbody><\/table>\n\t\t\t\t<!--[if gte mso 9]>\n\t\t\t\t<\/td>\n\t\t\t\t<![endif]-->\n                \n\t\t\t\t<!--[if gte mso 9]>\n                <\/tr>\n                <\/table>\n\t\t\t\t<![endif]-->\n            <\/td>\n        <\/tr>\n    <\/tbody>\n<\/table><table border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\" class=\"mcnBoxedTextBlock\" style=\"min-width: 100%;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n    <!--[if gte mso 9]>\n\t<table align=\"center\" border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" width=\"100%\">\n\t<![endif]-->\n\t<tbody class=\"mcnBoxedTextBlockOuter\">\n        <tr>\n            <td valign=\"top\" class=\"mcnBoxedTextBlockInner\" style=\"mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n                \n\t\t\t\t<!--[if gte mso 9]>\n\t\t\t\t<td align=\"center\" valign=\"top\" \">\n\t\t\t\t<![endif]-->\n                <table align=\"left\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\" style=\"min-width: 100%;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\" class=\"mcnBoxedTextContentContainer\">\n                    <tbody><tr>\n                        \n                        <td style=\"padding-top: 9px;padding-left: 18px;padding-bottom: 9px;padding-right: 18px;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n                        \n                            <table border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" class=\"mcnTextContentContainer\" width=\"100%\" style=\"min-width: 100% !important;background-color: #F8D5A8;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n                                <tbody><tr>\n                                    <td valign=\"top\" class=\"mcnTextContent\" style=\"padding: 18px;color: #222222;font-family: Helvetica;font-size: 14px;font-weight: normal;text-align: center;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;word-break: break-word;line-height: 150%;\">\n                                        <h1 style=\"display: block;margin: 0;padding: 0;color: #222222;font-family: Helvetica;font-size: 40px;font-style: normal;font-weight: bold;line-height: 150%;letter-spacing: normal;text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size:18px\"><span style=\"font-family:lucida sans unicode,lucida grande,sans-serif\">The Atlas of Irish Mathematics: Kilkenny Edition<\/span><\/span><\/h1>\n\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\"><br>\n<span style=\"font-family:lucida sans unicode,lucida grande,sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">The latest blog on Mathematics Ireland highlight<img decoding=\"async\" align=\"left\" data-file-id=\"1745702\" height=\"280\" src=\"https:\/\/mcusercontent.com\/1e4c696c230483f91e7da02d5\/images\/2a4a49e3-7af7-6cea-5108-d83942c25895.jpg\" style=\"border: 0px initial;width: 210px;height: 280px;margin: 0px 10px 0px 0px;outline: none;text-decoration: none;-ms-interpolation-mode: bicubic;\" width=\"210\">s mathematical people associated with Kilkenny.\u00a0<br>\n<br>\nThe big names from Kilkenny in earlier times are contemporaries Richard Helsham and George Berkeley, both born in the 17th century. However, the blog includes more than 30 Kilkenny mathematicians and covers many currently working in maths.\u00a0<br>\nTo read the full blog and find out more visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mathsireland.ie\/blog\/2021_08_cm\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #007C89;font-weight: normal;text-decoration: underline;\">mathsireland.ie<\/a>.<\/span><\/span>\u00a0<br>\nAlso see many other counties, north and south, on the blog.<\/div>\n\n                                    <\/td>\n                                <\/tr>\n                            <\/tbody><\/table>\n                        <\/td>\n                    <\/tr>\n                <\/tbody><\/table>\n\t\t\t\t<!--[if gte mso 9]>\n\t\t\t\t<\/td>\n\t\t\t\t<![endif]-->\n                \n\t\t\t\t<!--[if gte mso 9]>\n                <\/tr>\n                <\/table>\n\t\t\t\t<![endif]-->\n            <\/td>\n        <\/tr>\n    <\/tbody>\n<\/table><table border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\" class=\"mcnDividerBlock\" style=\"min-width: 100%;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;table-layout: fixed !important;\">\n    <tbody class=\"mcnDividerBlockOuter\">\n        <tr>\n            <td class=\"mcnDividerBlockInner\" style=\"min-width: 100%;padding: 18px;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n                <table class=\"mcnDividerContent\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\" style=\"min-width: 100%;border-top: 2px solid #EAEAEA;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n                    <tbody><tr>\n                        <td style=\"mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n                            <span><\/span>\n                        <\/td>\n                    <\/tr>\n                <\/tbody><\/table>\n<!--            \n                <td class=\"mcnDividerBlockInner\" style=\"padding: 18px;\">\n                <hr class=\"mcnDividerContent\" style=\"border-bottom-color:none; border-left-color:none; border-right-color:none; border-bottom-width:0; border-left-width:0; border-right-width:0; margin-top:0; margin-right:0; margin-bottom:0; margin-left:0;\" \/>\n-->\n            <\/td>\n        <\/tr>\n    <\/tbody>\n<\/table><table border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\" class=\"mcnImageCardBlock\" style=\"border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n    <tbody class=\"mcnImageCardBlockOuter\">\n        <tr>\n            <td class=\"mcnImageCardBlockInner\" valign=\"top\" style=\"padding-top: 9px;padding-right: 18px;padding-bottom: 9px;padding-left: 18px;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n                \n\n\n<table align=\"left\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" class=\"mcnImageCardTopContent\" width=\"100%\" style=\"background-color: #F8D5A8;border: 12px none;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n    <tbody><tr>\n        <td class=\"mcnTextContent\" valign=\"top\" style=\"padding: 18px 18px 0px;color: #222222;font-family: Helvetica;font-size: 14px;font-weight: normal;text-align: left;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;word-break: break-word;line-height: 150%;\" width=\"528\">\n            <p style=\"text-align: left;color: #222222;font-family: Helvetica;font-size: 14px;font-weight: normal;margin: 10px 0;padding: 0;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;line-height: 150%;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n\n<p style=\"color: #222222;font-family: Helvetica;font-size: 14px;font-weight: normal;text-align: left;margin: 10px 0;padding: 0;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;line-height: 150%;\"><span style=\"font-size:18px\"><span style=\"font-family:lucida sans unicode,lucida grande,sans-serif\"><strong>Sign the Petition<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: left;color: #222222;font-family: Helvetica;font-size: 14px;font-weight: normal;margin: 10px 0;padding: 0;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;line-height: 150%;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:lucida sans unicode,lucida grande,sans-serif\">Dunsink Observatory is part of the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies (DIAS) and has been operated by DIAS since 1947. DIAS has a long term lease from the owner of the observatory, the Office of Public Works (OPW).<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n\n<p style=\"color: #222222;font-family: Helvetica;font-size: 14px;font-weight: normal;text-align: left;margin: 10px 0;padding: 0;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;line-height: 150%;\"><br>\n<span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:lucida sans unicode,lucida grande,sans-serif\"><strong>Every Year during Maths Week, The Hamilton Walk goes from Dunsink Observatory to Brooms Bridge to mark the famous discovery of quaternions by William Rowan Hamiltom. It follows the route of a proposed new cycle route - The Hamilton Way.<br>\n<br>\n<img decoding=\"async\" data-file-id=\"1745102\" height=\"219\" src=\"https:\/\/mcusercontent.com\/1e4c696c230483f91e7da02d5\/images\/40360581-8f13-a808-a711-4a322ca2462b.jpeg\" style=\"width: 300px;height: 219px;margin: 0px 10px 0px 0px;float: left;border: 0;outline: none;text-decoration: none;-ms-interpolation-mode: bicubic;\" width=\"300\"><br>\nThe virtual Hamilton Walk can be seen <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/iDin-pXSzY4\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #007C89;font-weight: normal;text-decoration: underline;\">HERE<\/a><br>\n<br>\nThe\u00a0 pedestrian and cycle route would link Dunsink Observatory, the Royal Canal Greenway, Ashtown, and the Tolka Valley Greenway and make the observatory more accessible for all.\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n\n<p style=\"color: #222222;font-family: Helvetica;font-size: 14px;font-weight: normal;text-align: left;margin: 10px 0;padding: 0;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;line-height: 150%;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:lucida sans unicode,lucida grande,sans-serif\">The 450 m long \u201cHamilton Way\u201d would enable observatory staff and members of the public to access the Observatory in a safe and convenient manner by foot, bike or wheelchair. This would transform access to the Observatory and open it up to many more visitors from the local area and beyond.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n\n<p style=\"color: #222222;font-family: Helvetica;font-size: 14px;font-weight: normal;text-align: left;margin: 10px 0;padding: 0;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;line-height: 150%;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:lucida sans unicode,lucida grande,sans-serif\"><strong>Please\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/my.uplift.ie\/p\/hamiltonway\" style=\"mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #007C89;font-weight: normal;text-decoration: underline;\">click here to support the\u00a0petition<\/a>\u00a0to\u00a0Fingal\u00a0County\u00a0Council\u00a0and\u00a0Dublin\u00a0City\u00a0Council.\u00a0<\/strong><br>\nShare your thoughts on the Hamilton Way by emailing\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dunsink.dias.ie\/hamiltonway\/dunsink@dias.ie\" style=\"mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #007C89;font-weight: normal;text-decoration: underline;\">dunsink@dias.ie<\/a>. 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Their Celebration of Mind series features some of the best and most inspiring maths presenters, including inventors, magicians, mime acts, artists and more.\u00a0<br>\nSee these free videos on their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/c\/G4GCelebration\u00a0\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #007C89;font-weight: normal;text-decoration: underline;\">YouTube channel here\u00a0<\/a><\/span><br>\n<br>\n\u00a0\n                                    <\/td>\n                                <\/tr>\n                            <\/tbody><\/table>\n                        <\/td>\n                    <\/tr>\n                <\/tbody><\/table>\n\t\t\t\t<!--[if gte mso 9]>\n\t\t\t\t<\/td>\n\t\t\t\t<![endif]-->\n                \n\t\t\t\t<!--[if gte mso 9]>\n                <\/tr>\n                <\/table>\n\t\t\t\t<![endif]-->\n            <\/td>\n        <\/tr>\n    <\/tbody>\n<\/table><table border=\"0\" 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0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n                                <tbody><tr>\n                                    <td valign=\"top\" class=\"mcnTextContent\" style=\"padding: 18px;color: #222222;font-family: Helvetica;font-size: 14px;font-weight: normal;text-align: left;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;word-break: break-word;line-height: 150%;\">\n                                        <div style=\"text-align: left;\"><br>\n<span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:lucida sans unicode,lucida grande,sans-serif\"><strong>Irish Mathematical Society September Meeting<\/strong><br>\n<strong>2-3rd September<\/strong><br>\nThe 34th Annual Meeting of the Irish Mathematical Society, which will be held on September 2-3, 2021, jointly hosted by UCC and MTU. This is the main annual scientific meeting of the Society and includes the AGM.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<p paraeid=\"{f6ad45e0-3de5-4061-96ad-8cfd3805c794}{15}\" paraid=\"162180744\" style=\"color: #222222;font-family: Helvetica;font-size: 14px;font-weight: normal;text-align: left;margin: 10px 0;padding: 0;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;line-height: 150%;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:lucida sans unicode,lucida grande,sans-serif\">The conference webpage, with up-to-date information on speakers and fees, is available at:<span style=\"color:#FFF0F5\">\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ucc.ie\/en\/matsci\/events\/ims2021\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #007C89;font-weight: normal;text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color:#0000FF\">https:\/\/www.ucc.ie\/en\/matsci\/events\/ims2021\/<\/span><\/a><span style=\"color:#0000FF\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<br>\n<span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:lucida sans unicode,lucida grande,sans-serif\"><strong>MATRIX\u00a0\u00d7\u00a0IMAGINARY\u00a0joint conference<\/strong><br>\n<strong>8-9th September 3-8pm daily<\/strong><br>\n<img decoding=\"async\" align=\"left\" data-file-id=\"1745578\" height=\"210\" src=\"https:\/\/mcusercontent.com\/1e4c696c230483f91e7da02d5\/images\/9149c338-3b92-1f5f-2f59-a14f3ac8b365.png\" style=\"border: 0px;width: 240px;height: 210px;float: left;margin: 0px 10px 0px 0px;outline: none;text-decoration: none;-ms-interpolation-mode: bicubic;\" width=\"240\">Maths Engagement, Museums and art:<br>\n<br>\nThe theme of this online conference is THE FUTURE OF MATHEMATICS ENGAGEMENT. Join us to discover innovations in math museums, exhibitions, new formats, technologies and inspiring ideas!<br>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/matrix.imaginary.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #007C89;font-weight: normal;text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color:#0000CD\">Register your interest here<\/span><\/a><span style=\"color:#0000CD\">.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span>\n\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:lucida sans unicode,lucida grande,sans-serif\">\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/span><br>\n<br>\n<br>\n\u00a0\n<p style=\"color: #222222;font-family: Helvetica;font-size: 14px;font-weight: normal;text-align: left;margin: 10px 0;padding: 0;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;line-height: 150%;\"><br>\n<br>\n<br>\n<span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:lucida sans unicode,lucida grande,sans-serif\"><strong>16<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0Conference of The Mathematics Education for the Future Project:\u00a0<em>Building on the Past to Prepare for the Future<\/em><\/strong><br>\n8-13th\u00a0August 2022, King\u2019s College, Cambridge University, UK.<br>\n<img decoding=\"async\" data-file-id=\"1745642\" height=\"206\" src=\"https:\/\/mcusercontent.com\/1e4c696c230483f91e7da02d5\/images\/6ef4a2c7-843a-3ee8-7536-2ffc9caa6ea7.png\" style=\"border: 0px;width: 832px;height: 206px;margin: 0px;outline: none;text-decoration: none;-ms-interpolation-mode: bicubic;\" width=\"832\"><br>\nOur conferences are renowned for their friendly and productive working atmosphere and are attended by innovative teachers and mathematics educators from all over the world.\u00a0The Conference is organised by the Mathematics Education for the Future Project \u2013 an independent international educational initiative.\u00a0The Mathematics Education for the Future Project is dedicated to the improvement of mathematics education worldwide through the dissemination of innovative ideas and materials.\u00a0<br>\nThe deadline for abstracts is now extended to Sep 30.\u00a0<br>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/directorymathsed.net\/kings-conference\/\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #007C89;font-weight: normal;text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color:#0000CD\">More details and booking information available here.\u00a0<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/span><br>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00a0<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n                                    <\/td>\n                                <\/tr>\n                            <\/tbody><\/table>\n                        <\/td>\n                    <\/tr>\n                <\/tbody><\/table>\n\t\t\t\t<!--[if gte mso 9]>\n\t\t\t\t<\/td>\n\t\t\t\t<![endif]-->\n                \n\t\t\t\t<!--[if gte mso 9]>\n                <\/tr>\n                <\/table>\n\t\t\t\t<![endif]-->\n            <\/td>\n        <\/tr>\n    <\/tbody>\n<\/table><table border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\" class=\"mcnDividerBlock\" style=\"min-width: 100%;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;table-layout: fixed !important;\">\n    <tbody class=\"mcnDividerBlockOuter\">\n        <tr>\n            <td class=\"mcnDividerBlockInner\" style=\"min-width: 100%;padding: 38px 18px 18px;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n                <table class=\"mcnDividerContent\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\" style=\"min-width: 100%;border-top: 2px solid #EAEAEA;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n                    <tbody><tr>\n                        <td style=\"mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n                            <span><\/span>\n                        <\/td>\n                    <\/tr>\n                <\/tbody><\/table>\n<!--            \n                <td class=\"mcnDividerBlockInner\" style=\"padding: 18px;\">\n                <hr class=\"mcnDividerContent\" style=\"border-bottom-color:none; 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Are aims are: \u2022 To inform teachers of the exciting and innovative work at the Frontiers of Physics \u2022 To provide teachers with examples of simple and inexpensive physics demonstrations \u2022 To inform teachers of the latest developments and resources available in physics teaching \u2022 To provide an opportunity for teachers to meet others, exchange ideas and network<br>\n<br>\nSee <a href=\"https:\/\/www.talkphysics.org\/events\/iop-ireland-frontiers-of-physics-2021-online-event\/\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #007C89;font-weight: normal;text-decoration: underline;\">www.talkphysics.org<\/a> or contact paul.nugent@gmail.com for more<br>\n<br>\n#FrontiersofPhysics\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00a0<\/div>\n\n                                    <\/td>\n                                <\/tr>\n                            <\/tbody><\/table>\n                        <\/td>\n          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