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Jessica Napper - Author's website
Year 13 Digital Technology - Scholarship Exemplar
In 2009 Jessica Napper was awarded a New Zealand Scholarship in Technology for her work on developing a website for a client. Her work in this programme of learning was focussed on the development of a website for an author. This website contained specific information about the author, her books, a...
www.techlink.org.nz/student-showcase/Scholarship/Jessica-Napper.htm
Samantha Wood - Butcher's block
Year 13 Hard Materials - Scholarship Exemplar
Sam developed a butcher's block to provide more storage and preparation space in a small kitchen. Her client, who cooks two main meals a day, keeps food scraps for composting, and, due to her rural location needs to store large quantities of food, described the kitchen as disorganised and difficult...
www.techlink.org.nz/student-showcase/Scholarship/Samatha-Wood.htm
Year 13 Hard Materials - Student Showcase
Sam developed a butcher's block to provide more storage and preparation space in a small kitchen. Her client, who cooks two main meals a day, keeps food scraps for composting, and, due to her rural location needs to store large quantities of food, described the kitchen as disorganised and difficult...
www.techlink.org.nz/student-showcase/materials/Samantha-Wood-Block.htm
Self-sustaining Coastal retreat
Year 13 Graphics - Student Showcase
Thomas, New Zealand's top scholar in Graphics 2008, received his award for his work on a design for a sustainable house that made maximum use of its environment. His client wanted a home that would also suit a family if his circumstances changed, and specified that the building should be as self-s...
www.techlink.org.nz/student-showcase/Graphics/Thomas-Coastal-retreat.htm
Year 13 Digital Technology - Student Showcase
To promote Mountainview High School to the wider community, Jamie Hanifin and Matt Heywood were asked to produce a cover for the school diary that reflected a student perspective of school life for their Year 11 Information Management class. This was an important school publication, and in the proj...
www.techlink.org.nz/student-showcase/ict/Jamie-and-Matt-Diary-cover.htm
Year 12 Soft Materials - Teaching Snapshot
Fashion Textiles Technology teacher Kylie Merrick takes advantage of the exhibitions relevant to her students' learning and which are easily accessible in the city. One such exhibit was the 2008 Jum Nakao exhibition at the NewDowseGallery in Lower Hutt. Jum Nakao, a Japanese-Brazilian designer, is ...
www.techlink.org.nz/teaching-snapshot/Y12-13-Senior/whs-Jum-Nakao.htm
Years 7-8 Soft Materials - Classroom Practice Case Study
Students in three Year 7/8 classes worked in small groups to develop costumes using recycled materials in a two-week Technology wearable art unit, part of an integrated study on sustainability. At the conclusion of the unit the outfits were modelled at a fashion parade/awards evening.
www.techlink.org.nz/CP1003.htm
Year 11 Digital Technology - Student Showcase
Today sees a generation of students with an unprecedented level of computer literacy and involvement with communications technology. This makes the computer an essential learning tool and one that schools have only begun to exploit in terms of developing targeted educational software.
www.techlink.org.nz/student-showcase/ict/Tandra-Drug-abuse-PPS.htm
Year 8 Electronics - Student Showcase
Wood was asked to make an electronic game using a basic circuit of LEDs controlled by a switch made from a spring and washer. He could amend or add to this circuit if he wished.
www.techlink.org.nz/student-showcase/electronics/Wood-Sitting-duck-game.htm
Year 13 Soft Materials - Student Showcase
For Lucie Gray, fashion is much more than a subject, it's a passion. So for her third year of Soft Materials, Lucie wanted a challenge that would push her existing skills to a professional level. To find the appropriate client, Lucie emailed public relations firms, eventually getting the contact de...
www.techlink.org.nz/student-showcase/materials-soft/lucie-dress-collection.htm
Wellington High School : From pottery to fashion room
Years 7-13 Facilities - Facilities
The new Fabrics and Fashion Technology workroom at Wellington High School reflects teacher Kylie Merrick's commitment to sustainability in her teaching programmes and recycling was a priority during remodelling of the room.
www.techlink.org.nz/teaching-snapshot/Facilities/whs-pottery-to-fashion.htm
Hard Materials - Technologists Practice Case Study
In 2005 Hawke's Bay classroom furniture manufacturer Furnware introduced its new Bodyfurn range which included a new student desk with a clip-on side storage unit and the dynamic chair, available in a range of sizes. The new range was developed through extensive initial market and ergonomic researc...
www.techlink.org.nz/Case-studies/Technological-practice/Materials/Side-Storage-Unit/
Year 8 Hard Materials - Teaching Snapshot
The Microsoft New Zealand head office is decorated with art produced by Remuera Intermediate students, who worked through the technological process in a visual art unit with clear links to the Technology Curriculum. When Art teacher Billie Sturgiss was talking to a friend from Microsoft, who commen...
www.techlink.org.nz/teaching-snapshot/Y07-10-Middle/Remuera-MS-Art.htm
CP1002: Wearable arts collaboration
Years 11-13 Soft Materials - Classroom Practice Case Study
Students from Queen Margaret College and Wellington High School collaborated when they created wearable arts costumes for display in the main windows of the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa. Their work followed previous Queen Margaret wearable arts displays at Te Papa in 2006, featured in th...
www.techlink.org.nz/CP1002.htm
Year 8 Hard Materials - Student Showcase
When Maraika was given a brief 'to design and make an original gift' she consulted some potential clients and asked about their interests and hobbies. After considering ideas for suitable gifts, she drew concept plans for three - a jewellery closet for her older sister, an ornamental letter 'M' for...
www.techlink.org.nz/student-showcase/materials/Maraika-Jewellery-storage.htm
Year 11 Food and Bio-related - Student Showcase
Kate and Estelle were in a Year 12 class doing a project that teacher Carolyn Norquay had entered in the 2009 NZIFST Student Product Development Challenge run by Massey University and Crest. Working with Food Technologist Shelley Banham from Griffin's Foods Ltd, and Futureintech faciliitator Gay Wa...
www.techlink.org.nz/student-showcase/food-and-biological/Estelle-Kate-biscuits.htm
Year 13 Electronics - Student Showcase
Kevin regularly mowed his grandparents' lawn using their electric mower, but felt that the system could be improved. The cable was problematic - it constantly needed moving, requiring his grandparents to walk on the freshly cut grass, dangerously slippery for the elderly, and wasn't long enough so ...
www.techlink.org.nz/student-showcase/electronics/kevin-lawnmower.htm
CP1001: Alternative multi-materials programme
Years 11-12 Teaching Practice - Classroom Practice Case Study
The Alternative Multi-materials programme was developed so that Year 11/12 students unsuited to the mainstream Technology classes could still benefit from Technology education. The focus was on providing students with the opportunity to succeed through technological practice which gave them ownersh...
www.techlink.org.nz/CP1001.htm
Year 13 Food and Bio-related - Student Showcase
Dale and Emma formed a company to develop and manufacture a product for Heinz Wattie's as part of the Lion Foundation Young Enterprise Scheme.
www.techlink.org.nz/student-showcase/food-and-biological/dale-emma-icecream-topping.htm
User-programmable spinning LED display
Year 9 Electronics - Student Showcase
Logan's father saw a novelty handheld fan that produced simple messages with LED lights and suggested that Logan could make something better. Logan took up his father's challenge, planning to vastly improve upon the shop-bought fan, which could only display text and limited characters in a circle, ...
www.techlink.org.nz/student-showcase/electronics/Logan-Spinning-LED.htm
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