Projects

Students are looking at how the humidity, temperature and noise levels in their classrooms can impact their learning, through developing a robotic measuring machine suspended on wires around the classroom.

Students are researching and designing potential kitten-feeding solutions to reduce the workload, animal-stress and costs associated with SPCA staff having to hand-feed orphaned kittens.

This project looks to combine traditional Polynesian wayfinding knowledge with high-tech light and movement sensors in order to investigate how wave shadows were used for navigation.

Students and teachers are co-designing and developing a method for collecting noise pollution data that can be applied to design challenges around how spaces are used.

After a death in their community, students suggested creating garden in the school where they could have a quiet reflective area. To keep it thriving over the holidays, they are also developing a high tech watering system.

Using sleep health tracking devices, school children investigate whether or not they have sleep patterns associated with favourable life outcomes.

STEAMS Kits engage youth in the rural districts with digital technology by providing them with an opportunity to learn and explore programmable electronics.

Giving opportunities to youth of rural, remote location, and unable to obtain STEAM education, to access coding and robotics programs delivered online, and to interact through specific locally planned events.

This project is a bi-lingual and environmentally friendly technology hub delivering digital and technological opportunities to the young people of Tolaga Bay and Tokomaru Bay.

In collaboration with Kai Rotorua, Scion and Rotorua Boys High School, Māori teenagers will engage with science by exploring their own cultural history of kūmara using 3D printing technology.