Five Irish teachers; Tom Fitzsimmons and Ciaran McLaren from Crumlin Integrated College, and Eileen McStocker of St. Pius X College representing Northern Ireland and Kate O’Connell, from Scoil Mhuire, Kilvemnon in Tipperary; and Kathleen O'Connor who teaches at Ballyadams Primary School in Athy, Co.Kildare...

Microsoft today launched DigiYouthz , a new programme designed to help Irish students see the incredible opportunities available from a career in the technology industry. The programme aims to address outdated stereotypes and to open students’ minds to the wide array of exciting business and technology...

Updated: Kildare teacher, Kathleen O'Connor and Tipperary teacher, Kate O’Connell will be both travelling to Hong Kong to represent Ireland at the 2008 Microsoft Worldwide Innovative Teacher’s Forum in November. Kathleen, who teaches at Ballyadams Primary School in Athy, Co. Kildare will...

Microsoft Ireland is today announcing two initiative in the run up to the return to school: The price for Microsoft Office Home and Students 2007 has been reduced from €119.99 to €79.99 A new back to school web site with tips and resources for parents and students is available at: www.microsoft...

Fantastic news, a second Irish team have qualified for the global finals of the 2008 Imagine Cup finals in Paris next month. The team, which is called AcidRain, hail from NUI Maynooth and they have qualified with a project which enables diesel engined cars to use vegatable oil as fuel.  As part...

ParkIT, a team from Sligo IT have been named as the national winners of Ireland's 2008 Imagine Cup competition. Park IT won for their project, which aims to reduce urban congestion and carbon emissions by intelligently providing real-time information on available car parking in any given area. The application...

Kate O'Connell, a teacher at Scoil Mhuire Kilvemnon, Mullinahone in Tipperary won First place at the Microsoft Innovative Teacher Forum held in Zagreb on Saturday March 8th 2008. Kate won the Award in the "Innovation in Community" category. Her project was entitled, "Flying High- Exploring...

The Minister for Education and Science Mary Hanafin T.D., today delivered a keynote address to the 2008 Government Leaders Forum , taking place in Berlin, Germany. The Forum, being hosted by Microsoft and now in its tenth year, brings together senior politicians, officials and key individuals from across...

Four students in the School of Computing at Dublin City University, have been awarded scholarships to provide additional financial support for postgraduate research as part of the Microsoft Ireland scholarship programme.. The scholarship programme was first established in 1995 by Microsoft together with...