Liberties primary schools have become high-tech mini weather stations, monitoring the growth of cacti, palm trees and orchids in desert and tropical rainforest conditions. They are taking part in the DCU research project in collaboration with the Botanic Gardens. Every day pupils can go on to a website and monitor the climate in three controlled glass houses at the gardens.

They can assess the growth of the exotic plants and compare the conditions for plant growth in their own school garden using original remote sensor technologies developed at DCU's National Centre for Sensor Research.