Projects

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

Students at Conifer Grove School are researching different formulas and methods of making an environmentally-friendly plastic substitute they can use to make products.

The project team will examine mitigating the effects of storm water from 3 major drains on the water quality of Lake Wanaka using restoration science and further targeted monitoring and education.

Drivers of 32 Nissan Leafs will be monitoring their electric vehicles using automatic data recording and upload equipment, to test a hypothesis that overheating causes accelerated degradation of battery energy holding capacity and range.

Students will be identifying the burrow areas and exploring potential issues within little blue penguin habitats.

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

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.

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 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.

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.