5*S: Space, Surveyors & Students is an educational project aimed at Junior Cycle students, and their teachers with the goal of teaching users about how informational data sets can be used to tackle the big environmental and social challenges in Ireland today, from protecting Ireland from extreme weather events, to moving to renewables in bids to counter climate change, to issues of hunger and inequality.
It is a joint activity between Maynooth University, Ordnance Survey Ireland, TU Dublin, Esri Ireland and the Society of Chartered Surveyors Ireland. It is funded by Science Foundation Ireland and ESERO Ireland. The project is split into two parts:
- Student and teacher ‘Storymap’ workshops designed to introduce participants to space based data using unique online mapping and presentation tools.
- An augmented reality app designed to visualise complex space based data in new and engaging ways.