STEM is based on skills generally using the left half of the brain and thus is logic driven. Much research and data shows that activities like Arts, which uses the right side of the brain supports and fosters creativity, which is essential to innovation. Clearly the combination of superior STEM education combined with Arts education (STEAM) should provide us with the education system that offers us the best chance for regaining the innovation leadership essential to the new economy
2021 Collaboration between 2nd year class group , Trinity College & the National College of Art and Design
"We were very impressed with the responses and we think your students are a very creative and observant group of young people"
Dr Kamila Kwasniewska
Research Fellow
Botany Department
School of Natural Sciences
‘The Lichen Art Citizen Science Project’
This project brought to life the connections between Science, Art and Poetry. Class 2H worked on a outstanding project and produced a wonderful piece of artwork which captures the imagination.
Lichen each Other - (2nd Year Student)
Soft, bushy, green is he
Helps the environment and even helps me
In love with the branch, together they bloom
Without each other, leads to its doom
Covering the branch, quite chaotic
What can I say, they are symbiotic
The branch, the book, the lichen, the colour
Together they complete one another
Shaped like saucers, textured like mushrooms
Some like it, while others hate fumes
Colonising conditions, soothing to severe
Living in clusters, gives insight on clean air
They are bio-indicators of hygiene in our little sphere