Sinead was voted the winner of Nanotechnology Zone, funded by IOP Ireland in November 2013. For her efforts she was awarded €500 to support her own science outreach activities.
Sinead used the funds to run her own workshop for school students based on her research. The workshop was held in the Biomedical Diagnostics Institute on 22nd April 2014 and the theme of the workshop was heart health, blood clots and designing biochips.
If you’d like the chance to win funding to develop your own science outreach ideas, apply for the next I’m a Scientist Ireland at imascientist.ie/scientist-apply