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Fri 02 Feb 2010Scientific visions from your seat in an Offaly classroom

Cutting-edge technical research in the US is using video links to foster interests in pupils, writes IAN CAMPBELL

STUDENTS IN a Co Offaly secondary school will have no excuse for saying science is boring when a high-definition video link goes live and connects them directly to research labs in the Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI) in Atlanta, US.