Projects

To highlight the exciting career opportunities in the food industry and demonstrate the underpinning science, food scientists and technologists will run hands-on workshops for Years 9 to 10 students.

Year 9 & 10 students at Gore High School are exploring the science of wetlands, water monitoring, and wai kōura (freshwater crayfish) through a collaboration with Te Rūnanga o Ngāi Tahu and their kōura farming project.

Christchurch schools and Early Learning Centres investigate īnanga spawning habitats and how to help increase their numbers.

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

Generating awareness and excitement for food processing technologies using augmented reality (AR) to allow students to construct a working virtual food production facility.

This project is reconnecting the taonga shellfish toheroa back with the people through outreach education in local schools and within the wider community of Ripiro Beach.

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.

Promoting experiential learning opportunities for students to engage with climate change science through experiments by scientists, field visit to experience agricultural emission reduction centre and 'student scientist’ climate change kits.

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.

This studies indigenous and introduced bees, along with engaging science, technology and mātauranga Maori to develop frameworks for healthy and sustainable human and environmental life.