MTU Celebrate Success

MTU societies are celebrating double success winning two national award titles at this year’s Board of Irish College Societies (BICS) Awards. 

The MTU Programming Society was awarded the Best Departmental Society for their diverse and high level of activity which enhanced the student experience and enjoyment. The society aims to be a community for all who use programming in their studies and helps them socialise with and learn from their peers.  

https://www.mtu.ie/news/mtu-wins-two-national-best-society-awards

MTU Alumni Scale New Heights at Mount Everest Base Camp

Fulfilling a lifetime dream, George Bulman, Operations Manager at MTU’s Rubicon Centre, and his son, Ciarán, Programme Development Lead at Malta Services in Drogheda, travelled to Mount Everest Base Camp last month. They flew out from Ireland as part of a group of sixteen, which included an Irish guide and an Irish doctor. When they arrived in Nepal, the group was accompanied by five Sherpa guides and five yaks which carried their provisions.

https://www.mtu.ie/news/mtu-alumni-scale-new-heights-at-mount-everest-base-camp

MTU Host Homecoming Event at Kerry Campus for Dr Karen Weekes

She did it! MTU lecturer becomes first Irish female to row solo across the Atlantic. On Friday 6th May staff and students of MTU held a homecoming event at the Kerry Campus for their colleague Dr Karen Weekes. Karen is the first Irish woman to have completed a solo crossing of the Atlantic Ocean and the 20th female globally to have rowed an ocean on her own. Karen spent 80 days at sea reaching Barbados at 6.30 pm (Barbadian time) on 24th February after rowing 3,000 miles solo across the Atlantic Ocean. 

https://www.mtu.ie/news/mtu-host-homecoming-event-at-kerry-campus-for-dr-karen-weekes