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.

Ngāti Paoa Iwi Trust and Point England School aim to raise longfin eels for release back into the local waterways.

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.

Te Rūnanga o Ngāti Mutunga will carry out a comprehensive estuarine assessment in the Urenui and Mimitangiatua estuaries and aim to establish what current and future threats may impact on the health of these important coastal areas.

Students at Point England School aim to develop a sensor that will tell them how full their recycling bins are.

The Seachange Survey project was set up to create a community survey method, in conjunction with local schools and with input from residents, to monitor the health and distribution of pāua and other kaimoana species.

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.

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.