Irish School uses SketchUp to supercharge their learning experience..

Saint Gerald's College, Castlebar, Co. Mayo participated in our pilot scheme with SketchUp Pro, and the results were extraordinary....

One very notable piece of feedback was where SketchUp was a deciding factor for a student to actually take up a particular subject.  Does your school have good experiences with SketchUp? Why not share them with us?

This is a great day for Irish schools...

Google SketchUp Pro is now available for free to all primary and secondary schools in Ireland!! 

This could be a huge boost to education in Ireland and even help contribute to the struggling Irish economy in years to come, by preparing students to geomodel, 3D print, plan buildings, cities, create games and who knows what else?

Above: Map showing locations worldwide where
Google SketchUp Pro has been made available to schools.

Schools can obtain licenses for Google SketchUp Pro
from the Galway Education Centre (click here)

This initiative was organised by Allyson MacDuffie in Google and Bernard Kirk of the Galway Education Centre. Hats off to both of them!

Check out our Irish Schools SketchUp Training Portal for great free resources for learning this deadly sofware.

Dublin now on Google Earth

We're delighted to see such activity relating to an Irish city on Google Earth. Well done to all contributors to this fine collection of models. Lets have the same thing for Cork! Please let us know who's interested in a coordinated project to get Cork City on GE.

Main contributors: The Picture Works, City Trip Dublin, and others....

Inflatable Church in Germany

This is certainly a departure from traditional construction technology. Will it catch on? Found it on creatustercero.blogspot.com where there are a lot of interesting videos and other things...