Projects

Expanded and extended for a second year, NZ National Biomechanics Day is celebrating the science of biomechanics with even more secondary students across New Zealand through an experiential learning day.

Students from 20 schools across the Bay of Plenty are engaging in science and technology through practical hands-on learning about pest management and biosecurity in the primary industries.

RoboPā 2018 is a portable maker-space encouraging Māori rangatahi and emerging kaiako to embrace computational thinking practices, scientific approaches and technological innovation.

Tohu o te wā fuses science and technology to enable meaningful engagement from tamariki and rangatahi (Māori youth), through the development of a mātauranga pūtaiao mobile application.

After taking the South Island by storm, the successful Lab-in-a-box team are now visiting the North Island! They are engaging schools and communities, seeding new citizen science projects and discussing future technologies for environmental management.

Students across all New Zealand are extracting chemicals from their local mānuka trees, which work as natural weedkillers and antibacterials, and then looking at how these chemicals vary between mānuka trees growing in different parts of New Zealand.

Te Taumata o Ngāti Whakaue in collaboration with Scion are developing a platform for students to investigate and explore innovative uses of harakeke by making a practical and sustainable product.

Ahi Pepe MothNet – Aotearoa is citizen science that aims to engage teachers, tamariki (children), and whanau with moths, ecology and how science is conducted and connected to everyday life.

Through their own DNA analyses, teachers can demonstrate the value of DNA for studying human migrations. Their students, through video-recording, can celebrate and share their own family journeys to Aotearoa.

Engaging young people (aged 4-16) with science and technology through participation in a project focussing on Otago’s geological hazards; getting hands-on experience of the “internet of things” and data science.