Plan your visit to WorldSkills Ireland 2024
We’re excited to welcome you and your students to WorldSkills Ireland 2024! While WorldSkills Ireland competitions have been running since the 1960s, in 2017, a decision was made to highlight Skills, Apprenticeships, and Further and Higher Education opportunities in Ireland. This led to the creation of the WorldSkills Ireland event at the RDS. Now in its fourth year, the event is set to be the largest yet, with over 30,000 students, teachers, guidance counsellors, and parents already registered to attend.
Plan Your Visit: Get Ready for an Action-Packed Day! WorldSkills Ireland 2024 is more than just an event—it’s a celebration of skills, apprenticeships, and careers! From hands-on demos to career zones and meet-and-greets with employers, you’ll be spoilt for choice. Whether you know what you’re looking for or just exploring, here’s everything you need to plan for a great day.
Teacher & Guidance Counsellor Information Pack
Step 1- Review your registration
Please locate the registration confirmation email to note which day and timeslot you selected to attend WorldSkills Ireland 2024. As our time slots are nearly all fully booked, it’s essential that every allocated slot is used.
If your school is unable to attend, please let us know as soon as possible. This will allow us to offer your slot to another school eager to participate and on our waiting list. Please email info@worldskillsireland.ie if you wish to amend a group booking size or cancel your registration.
Note: For those who have booked to visit both WorldSkills Ireland 2024 and Higher Options on the same day, please ensure you have two separate bookings for both events and that you know which event you are visiting first in the morning. This will determine where your School Bus will park.
We have resent confirmation barcodes to all registered groups. If you did not receive this, please check your junk mail. If you still didn’t find this barcode, contact us below. Another confirmation email will be sent 24 hours before the event.
Step 2 - Complete the pre-event activities with your students
It’s important to make the most out of your visit to WorldSkills Ireland 2024. There is so much to see, hear, experience and gain, so proper planning is essential.
Start off by watching our 5 minute recap video from last year with your students. This will give everyone a great idea of what to expect at the event, especially for those who haven’t attended before.
Next, complete the WorldSkills Career Personality Quiz with your students. The quiz measures and analyses personalities, as well as provides information about jobs that are most interesting for young people to build their careers.
Move on to our Checklist Activity Sheets. This activity is a great way to help your students get the most out of their visit to WorldSkills Ireland 2024. We have listed all the exhibitors across the Careers’ Zone, Educators’ Zone, This Is FET Zone as well as all of our Sponsor stands and Competitions. Print off these activity sheets for your students to build a checklist of who they want to talk to at the event.
Step 3 - Familiarise yourself with the event features and floorplan
A proper review of all the various event features before you arrive, will greatly increase your take away from the event. Thats why we have created a Digital Event Preview which we highly recommend you read with your students.
From deciding on which Heroes Stage panel discussion your school group will meet and listen to, to picking the top 5 must-try skills or even noting the various educational institutes you want to visit and engage with, the pre-event review is crutial.
- 30 live competitions to experience
- 90 exhibiting stands
- Heroes Stage Timetable
- #ThisIsFET Zone
- Virtual Skills to try
- Teacher Focus talks (Thursday Morning)
- In person try-a-skill areas
- Careers’ Zone
- Educators’ Zone
- MTU Challenge – win amazing prizes at WorldSkills Ireland 2024
- Institute Of Guidance Counsellors stand.
Step 4 - Navigate your visit to the RDS
There is comprehensive traffic management plan in place for WorldSkills Ireland 2024 and The Irish Times Higher Options. This plan involves input from the RDS, Security Suppliers and the Gardai.
In order to accommodate the high number of student visitors attending on coaches to both events, we have no car parking available onsite. Therefore, the recommended mode of the travel to those not attending via Coach to the RDS each day is by Public Transport.
For more information on Public Transport Options to the RDS click here
Traffic is being managed by Garda, Freeflow Traffic, Frontline Security, & APOCA (RDS). Coahces/Buses will be told to approach the RDS and Simmonscourt Road from the Anglesea Road.
Simmonscourt Road will be coned off by the Garda. Teachers/Group leaders should print the relevant bus pass within this teacher pack and place it at the front of bus for arrival. Two bus pass options are available:
- Schools attending Higher Options first (BLUE)
- Schools attending WorldSkills Ireland 2024 first (PINK).
Full details on how to get there, where to park, how to find the bus passes and how to navigate both events on foot, click the button below.
Step 5 - Get inspired by our Heroes
The Heroes Stage is a must-attend feature at WorldSkills Ireland 2024. We run multiple panel discussions each day which cover a range of Industries from Construction and Hospitality to ICT and Automotive. Hear from current apprentices on how their career journey is going since leaving school as well as Industry Heroes on how they began their as an apprentice and worked their way up the ladder. We’re delighted to announced that we will have Rory’s Stories as well as Carl Mullan guest speaking on the Hereos Stage at 11am.
The Final Heroes Stage Timetable will be available next week. We will send another email to you with this so that your students can choose which panel discussion they wish to attend.
WorldSkills Ireland 2024 Heroes Stage is sponsored by Chadwicks Group and we are delighted to welcome our two fantastic guest speakers:
Rory’s Stories
Carl Mullan
Step 6 - WIN with MTU Challenge
Get ready for an exciting competition hosted by our Pocket Guide Sponsor MTU! They will be giving away fantastic prizes over the 3 days to kickstart an incredible school year for your students. Munster Technological University (MTU) is a dynamic hub for education, research, innovation and collaboration. It offers over 140 courses from apprenticeships to PhDs.
Prizes include:
- iPad 9th Gen 10.2-inch Wi-Fi 256GB – silver.
- Huawei Band 8 55020ANQ, Smart Watch/ Fitness Tracker, Pink
- Samsung Tab A9 SMX110NZXXEUB, 8.7’’, 64GB, Galaxy Tab, Graphite
- HP 14SDQ0034NA, 14″, Intel Celeron, 128GB SSD, Laptop, Black
- Huawei Watch Fit SE 55020BEG, Medium Smart Watch Black
- Sony SRSXB100L, Portable Bluetooth Speaker, Blue
- Sony SRSXB100L, Portable Bluetooth Speaker, Black
- JBL CLIP4 ECOBLU
- Sony WFC500WCE7, In-Ear Wireless Bluetooth Headphones, White
- Avita Pura NS14A6IEG431CB, 14” AMD A6, 4GB/128BH, Laptop, Blue
- Avita Pura NS14A6IEG431CB, 14” AMD A6, 4GB/128BH, Laptop, Pink
How to enter:
- To enter the MTU WorldSkills Ireland Challenge, participants must collect a Pocket Guide as they enter the event and answer the MTU Challenge questions!
- Answers to these questions can be found throughout the event! Visit the MTU Stand for some hints!
- Submit your entry at the MTU WorldSkills stand E40.
- Correct entries will be entered into hourly raffles, with winners announced on the MTU website.
Step 5 -FAQ's
If we didn’t answer your questions within our 6 step plan your visit guide, review our frequently asked questions by clicking the link below!
Make sure you read the Teacher and Guidance Counsellor Information Pack that we sent all group bookings.
Feel free to contact us via email if you didnt receive this.
