Projects

Mary Butler (School of Occupational Therapy, Otago Polytechnic) and Tahuna Intermediate will trial a new co-screening approach to visual testing.

Dodd-Walls Centre and partners will work with Otago primary and secondary schools to distribute and install cheap, optical atmospheric particulate sensors to monitor atmospheric pollution.

Te Kura Kaupapa Māori o Ōtepoti staff and students and Dr Barbara Anderson will investigate whether kaikawakawa moth eating kawakawa leaves increase the medicinal properties of the kawakawa leaf.

Using children’s interest in animals and fossils to engage pupils from low decile Dunedin primary schools in a hands-on activity (making impressions of animal teeth) to stimulate interest in science and technology and contribute to better oral health.

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.

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.

Cystic Fibrosis Otago, with Cystic Fibrosis New Zealand and University of Otago researchers will investigate how people with CF are cleaning antibiotic residue from their nebulisers and how this might be impacting on antibiotic resistance.

Tokyo is set to host the next Olympics which provides a one-in-four year opportunity to demonstrate how science and technology can enhance our understanding of the human body and its performance capabilities at all levels from beginners to the elite.

Inspiring Pacific children, their families and communities through hands on and interactive science activities that look at what we eat and how we move impacts us and what impact small changes can make to having a healthy lifestyle.

Schoolchildren in Alexandra will participate in a high-tech study of local air quality, measuring and mapping air quality across the town and sharing their findings with the community and online.