TY students from St Pauls Secondary School, Monasterevin; Curragh Community College; Piper’s Hill College; St Conleth’s Community College; and Ardscoil Rath Iomgháin, were among the students from across Leinster who graduated from the STEM programme

The support comes shortly after Ireland's best performance in the International Maths Olympiad this year

They said over 22,300 additional engineers are needed in the next decade, with just 9.8 per cent of graduates coming from engineering disciplines, half the global average.

The theme of this year's Science Week is 'regeneration' with a public call to celebrate our innate ability to reinvent, rejuvenate and regenerate.