Projects

'Tai Moana, Tai Ora' will engage with tamariki of Te Kura Kaupapa Māori o Te Parehuia in their natural marine science environment to determine the health of their environment.

This collaborative and hands-on 8-week programme builds confidence in STEAM for Year 3-4 students. With diversity and accessibility at its heart, Nanogirl’s Lab is delivered in communities nationwide.

Students are participating in hands-on activities in the horticulture industry, and learning about potential career opportunities.

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.

QuakeCraft: Earthquake Resilient Housing is a fun and innovative project based learning initiative, which encouraged year 10 students to design, build, customise, and test their own pop-up sustainable model house.

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.

Te Toki Voyaging Trust sails on a Polynesian waka with a team of celestial navigators and marine scientists to promote science to remote coastal communities in the North Island.

Working as and with a range of scientists, engineers and Information and Communication technologists across our regions, Year 9-11 rangatahi engage in an exciting hands-on discovery of science and development of novel innovation.