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Years 5-8 Hard Materials - Student Showcase
The 18 members of Maranatha Christian School's extension Discovery Group have developed a commemorative bookmark, with the help of Futureintech Ambassadors, engineers Paula Nunweek and Mike Lazelle.
www.techlink.org.nz/student-showcase/materials/group-maranatha-bookmark.htm
Years 7-8 Hard Materials - Student Showcase
A team of seven students saw the need for proper water polo goals for the school swimming pool, after noting that it was hard to referee a game with only cones marking the goals, and worked with professional engineer and Futureintech Ambassador Sean Milnes to develop a set of goals.
www.techlink.org.nz/student-showcase/materials/group-clevedon-goals.htm
Easily programmable remote-control cars
Year 10 Electronics - Teaching Snapshot
Shirley Boys High School electronics teacher Andrew Calder uses battery-driven remote-control cars bought cheaply from megastore retail outlets to create a teaching tool for his PICAXE programming lessons that has his Year 10 class captivated right from the start.
www.techlink.org.nz/teaching-snapshot/Y07-10-Middle/shirley-boys-cars.htm
Food and Bio-related - Technologists Practice Case Study
In November 2008, Christchurch bakery Cookie Time launched a gluten-free chocolate-chip cookie. The development of the cookie is a good illustration of the process food technologists use when identifying, developing and bringing a new product to market.
www.techlink.org.nz/Case-studies/Technological-practice/Food-and-Biological/Gluten-free-cookies/
Years 7-8 Hard Materials - Student Showcase
The Senior Engineering Group (an extension group selected to work on a Technology project) identified the need for a new bike shelter, as the existing stands were old, rusty and bent.
www.techlink.org.nz/student-showcase/materials/group-green-bay-senior.htm
Year 11 Soft Materials - Student Showcase
For her Year 11 project, Fiona was asked to design and produce something suitable for mass-production. As there were no smart, protective garments for students to wear in the Technology workshops, she decided that a new set of aprons would be suitable on both counts.
www.techlink.org.nz/student-showcase/materials-soft/fiona.htm
Year 9 Hard Materials - Teaching Snapshot
The Technology department at Takapuna Grammar School is housed in the purpose-built Technology and Visual Arts Centre. A glassed-in area by the staircase was built to display student work, providing an opportunity to present it to a wider audience and sho
www.techlink.org.nz/teaching-snapshot/Y07-10-Middle/takapuna-exhibition.htm
Years 7-8 Hard Materials - Student Showcase
Linnit, Chulan and Tobias were asked to each produce a wooden jigsaw puzzle based on consultation with a new entrant pupil as a client. Vanita encouraged her students to consider a broad multicultural theme for their designs as a reflection of the make-up
www.techlink.org.nz/student-showcase/materials/group-bailey-road.htm
Hard Materials - Technologists Practice Case Study
Gisborne may be one of New Zealand's most isolated regional centres, but this has not stopped it from becoming home to Pultron Composites Ltd - one of the world's leading makers of products using pultrusion technology. Richard Worrall talks to the company's founder and Technical Director.
www.techlink.org.nz/Case-studies/Technological-practice/Materials/pulling-strings/
Hard Materials - Technologists Practice Case Study
When Auckland plastics manufacturer Murray Fenton was approached to develop a life-saving medical device he applied not only the high-tech tools at his disposal but some very simple ones as well, along with all his experience and intuition.
www.techlink.org.nz/Case-studies/Technological-practice/Materials/adept-design/
Issues of green motorcycle design
Hard Materials - Technologists Practice Case Study
For more than 100 years, the internal combustion engine has ruled the highways and by-ways of the world. Now, as concerns about climate change and the rising cost of oil take centre stage, the search is on for alternative, cleaner, and cheaper options. Fuel cells, bio-fuel, electric engines or hybr...
www.techlink.org.nz/Case-studies/Technological-practice/Materials/Green-motorcycle-design/
Hard Materials - Technologists Practice Case Study
The roar of engines, the smell of fuel and the noise of the crowd - it's a petrol head's dream. International motorsport now has a worthy home in New Zealand thanks to an upgrade to Taupo Motorsport Park, as Charlotte Stapleton reports.
www.techlink.org.nz/Case-studies/Technological-practice/Materials/Red-Orange-Green-Go/
Hard Materials - Technologists Practice Case Study
Tucking into yoghurt is now a lot easier than ever before, thanks to an Auckland industrial design and innovation company. Claire Le Couteur discovers how Inveratek Group Ltd took its squeezable plastic food container from concept to commercialisation.
www.techlink.org.nz/Case-studies/Technological-practice/Materials/licence-to-chill/
Hard Materials - Technologists Practice Case Study
Rob O'Keeffe trained as a joiner in Upper Hutt before moving to Wanganui to work as a joiner and boat builder. Rob O'Keeffe Joiners started business in a converted horse stables at his rural family home before lack of space forced a move into a rented workshop in the city to work on the repair of a...
www.techlink.org.nz/Case-studies/Technological-practice/Materials/Okeeffe-joinery/
Hard Materials - Technologists Practice Case Study
Kitchens are big business, and getting bigger. Demographics, economics and the great Kiwi mania for home ownership and re-modelling are seeing to that.
www.techlink.org.nz/Case-studies/Technological-practice/Materials/kitchen-contours/
Hard Materials - Technologists Practice Case Study
New Zealand's heritage is preserved in the paintings and photographs hanging in museums, galleries and homes. Stamped on the back of these art works will often be the names of long forgotten framing studios, from small towns and big cities. And this history, old and new, is continually being update...
www.techlink.org.nz/Case-studies/Technological-practice/materials/edges-art-framers/
Hard Materials - Technologists Practice Case Study
With increasing timber production from New Zealand's forests, there are enormous opportunities for more use of timber as a structural and finishing material. Andy Buchanan considers who decides which materials to use in new buildings.
www.techlink.org.nz/Case-studies/Technological-practice/materials/living-in-a-material-world/
Hard Materials - Technologists Practice Case Study
Globalisation has opened the country's doors to a flood of cheap imports, which New Zealand manufacturers simply can't compete with. Not head on anyway. Instead, local manufacturers are having to change the way they go about their business. The last few years has seen the "business" side of busines...
www.techlink.org.nz/Case-studies/Technological-practice/Materials/manufacturing-ascent/
Hard Materials - Technologists Practice Case Study
Hillside Engineering Group workshops have been in action since 1875 when they were oriented around the development of the rail industry; a time of great foresight and huge investment. A number of sites had been set up around New Zealand to assemble components which had come from the United Kingdom,...
www.techlink.org.nz/Case-studies/Technological-practice/Materials/hillside/
Hard Materials - Technologists Practice Case Study
In 1963 international engineering consultants De Leuw Cather and local firm Rankin Hill completed a report on inner city extensions to Wellington's planned motorway, defining a £20m "Foothills Motorway" through the city. It was a plan for its time, involving big, bold engineering works, a six-lane ...
www.techlink.org.nz/Case-studies/Technological-practice/Materials/bypassing-central-wellington/
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