Projects

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.

A workshop where Maori and Pasifika students use a scientific approach and their own cultural perspectives to research a current scientific real-world problem: what can be done about antimicrobial resistance?

This project brings community gardeners together with horticulture science partners to raise community expertise in heirloom vegetable cultivation and make use of the local marae community-based garden.

The project whānau will be exploring the characterisation and connectivity of taonga species inside and outside Tapuae Marine Reserve and Ngā Motu/Sugar Loaf Islands Marine Protected Area.

Kāi Tahu rakatahi (young people) will learn how to monitor tuna (eel) numbers so that they can act as Kaitiaki (guardians) of the mahinga kai (food harvesting) resources of Te Nohoaka o Tukiauau.

Highlighting perspectives of the taiao and science to encourage rangatahi interest and involvement in science and technology at school to stimulate thinking about their contribution as leaders/kaitiaki and to promote science career paths.

Using Mātauranga taupuhi kaiao (traditional ecological knowledge) to design fisheries assessment protocols and enable efficient, independent monitoring of kaimoana resources.

What do you get if you mix a kura and a whare wānanga? Increased access to science teaching and learning in te reo Māori.

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.

This project explores traditional Māori science and technology (mātauranga Māori) and uses this as a base for exploring the links with four modern science projects on the ground.