Building strategic partnerships: Improving statistical education and statistical literacy in Ireland Databank and Dissemination, Central Statistics Office,

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Building strategic partnerships: Improving statistical education and statistical literacy in Ireland Databank and Dissemination, Central Statistics Office, Cork, Ireland Eoin MacCuirc ( ) 453

Educational outreach fundamental to achieving strategic goals “To create an educational resource in collaboration with the Dept. of Education and other relevant national and international organisations in order to improve statistical literacy” In the beginning… or 2007

Statistical Literacy Understand and interpret statistical data; critically evaluate statistical information and data- related arguments; use the information in context of daily life; and discuss or communicate one's reactions

Outreach Programme Primary & Post Primary CensusAtSchool John Hooper Medal Third Level, Government, CPD & Media The Professional Diploma in Official Statistics for Policy Evaluation Seminar Series Cross cohort Alice Perry Medal – apps4gaps competition

John Hooper Medal

John Hooper (1878 – 1930) First Director of Statistics for Saorstát Éireann (1923 – 1930) Education Education - University Royal University of Ireland, BA, First Class Honours (Mathematics) 1898 Contribution - Launched first Census of Population and Census of Industrial Production (1926) - Wrote Statistics Act President of the Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland (SSISI)

John Hooper Medal Launched on and combined with

In partnership with

Entries & Judging 3 phases - blind Phase 1 – 2 CSO Statisticians Phase 2 – 20 CSO staff (statistician and non-statistician) Phase 3 – Final (6 person external board) JHM Number of Entries 2011 – : Students Registered 692. Actual Posters : Students Registered Actual Posters : Students Registered Actual Posters agricultural theme 2014: Students Registered Actual Posters 388.

2013 – 1 st Place Aoife Troxel & Sive Neary Dominican College, Galway

2014 – 1 st Place Liam O’Driscoll & David O’Callaghan Hamilton High School, Bandon, County Cork

Check out… hoopermedalforstatistics2013awardsvideo/ statisticscompetition/

apps4gaps

Partners with

Alice Perry Medal Alice Perry, ( ) Alice Perry was born in Galway, Irelandi in From an engineering family,Alice graduated with a first class honours degree in Civil Engineering from Queen's College Galway (now NUI, Galway) in It is understood that she is the first woman to graduate with a degree in engineering in Ireland or Great Britain. It is possible that Alice Perry is the first woman to graduate as an engineer anywhere in the world.

2014 – 1 st Place

Best Working App (Student): €1,500 and also judged overall winner of the Alice Perry medal “Some1LikeMe” Creators: Jack O’Sullivan, Peter Roe Teacher: E McNiece School: Kilkenny College, Castlecomer, Kilkenny App link: localstatshttps://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.jackos 2500.localstats Video: Overview: app/soeme1likeme /soeme1likeme-overview.pdfhttp://vmuss08.deri.ie/apps4gaps/uploads/student- app/soeme1likeme /soeme1likeme-overview.pdf Description: app/soeme1likeme /soeme1likeme-description.pdfhttp://vmuss08.deri.ie/apps4gaps/uploads/student- app/soeme1likeme /soeme1likeme-description.pdf

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