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Niamh Shaw is an Irish performer, science communicator & STEAM ambassador with two degrees in engineering & a PhD in science Dream Big describes her life through science and personal anecdotes, and her story reminds us that we can be anything we want to be if we are brave and bold enough.

What do you do with impossible dreams? When do you let them go? Niamh Shaw, scientist, engineer and performer, had always felt that something was missing in her life. Stepping away from a full-time academic career, she initially thought that it might be acting. But when in that career, she knew that she still hadn't found what she was looking for. While making her first theatre show, looking at her life choices and childhood ambitions, the realisation that she still wanted to fulfil her childhood dream to go to space, but had done nothing to achieve this goal, was painful and disappointing for her.