Irish kids to learn science through cartoons

Dublin-based Centre for Telecommunications Value-Chain Research (CTVR) have only gone and created an animated film to try and teach kids science.

Now, I don’t know if anyone over at CTVR was ever young but kids know education when they see it. They can smell it a mile off. Even if we do dress it up with super heroes fighting science-related crimes.

The resistors is an animated feature-length film designed to give children a little shove in the right sciencey-direction.

Professor Donal O’Mahony, director of CTVR, said : “The sustained development of the Irish knowledge economy in the coming years will depend on our continuing to have a pool of graduate talent in the science, engineering and advanced technology disciplines to support inward investment.”

He went on to tell us that this is why it’s important to convince kids that science is fun and cool.

In other words, we gotta get ‘em while they’re young.

Hate to break it to you, but kids aren’t stupid. They don’t automatically pay attention to all things animated. All they’ll think when they see this is, “Damn those pesky adults and their thinly veiled educational films”

One question, for a program aimed at educating the 8-12 year old age bracket, do the female characters really need to be so scantily clad ?

The film will be shown on TG4 at 4.15pm tomorrow.