UCD Openday 1999

University College Dublin's Open Days were held on Tuesday 23 and Wednesday 24 March 1999. Students and teachers came from all over Ireland, bringing an attendance of over 20,000 students from 302 schools, who were accompanied by over 500 career guidance counsellors. 90% of those attending were fifth year students, who will be making their CAO applications in January 2000. (Click on image to see full size picture.)

Declan Kinsella of Kilinarden Community School does a little sound recording at the Electronic Engineering stand.	Mr Damian Dalton, Computer Science Department with some students from St. Joseph's, Navan.
Mr. Moore McDowell (Economics Department) giving a presentation at one of the briefing sessions.	(From left) Russell Cooley, Declan Brady (St. Aidan's Whitehall)Eamon Bane (Ardscoil Ris Marino) visiting the Geology stand.
Taking a well earned break by the UCD lake with the O'Reilly Hall in the backround.	Ricardo Fragnoli (postgraduate student) with some students from CBS Lucan at the Mechanical Engineering stand.
(back) Dr. James McLaughlin (Experimental Physics) with some students from Coláiste Bríde, Clondalkin.	Barry McKeever, Eve Cone and Joanne Byrne doing trojan work at the registration area.
(From left) Kevin Glennon, Stacey Balfe, Claire Freeman, John McGrath and Pat Kelly from St. Kevin's cc Dunlavin. Co. Wicklow.	Some of the IT facilities in the new Daedalus building.
Gary McDarby (2nd from left) with some students from Killinarden Community School at the Electronic & Electrical Engineering stand.

The objective of the Open Days is to provide prospective students with the opportunity of evaluating the career options open to them and to see the campus facilities, including the on-campus student residences. Briefing sessions for groups of students took place every half hour in the Sports Centre, from 9.00am until 12.30pm, after which the students were free to visit the various buildings in which they found a full programme of talks and displays. Staff were available to discuss the courses on offer in all the
faculties.