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Published: 2008

Motorised Projector Mount

Year 13 Electronics - Student Showcase

Michael's client was the camera crew of a large church. Church sermons were projected onto a screen via a projector that had to be raised into position, together with the stage lights, for each service.

Published: 2008

Indoor Basketball hoop with electronic scoring

Year 11-13 Electronics - Student Showcase

Asked to design and build a piece of recreational equipment, Carmelo decided to make a scaled-down indoor basketball game with electronic scoring for his father.

Published: 2008

Fridge Door Alarm

Year 11 Electronics - Student Showcase

Kevin's parents had an ongoing problem in their takeaway shop - the stealing of drinks from a fridge located on the customer side of the counter.

Published: 2007

Amplified speaker unit for an MP3 player

Year 11 Electronics - Student Showcase

Abhilash's interest in sound and music - as exemplified in his work with the school's sound team for productions and assemblies - influenced his interpretation of the given issue: Safe and Secure.

Published: 2007

Heated Slippers

Year 8 Electronics - Student Showcase

Year 8 students Cayleigh and Sara decided to tackle an old problem: cold slippers. Some sort of heating system was the answer, and one that posed an interesting technical challenge for the students.

Published: 2007

Electronically activated drinking fountain

Year 12 Electronics - Student Showcase

Owen's class was asked to identify an issue at St Mark's Church School - an inner-city school next to Wellington College - and come up with a solution for it.

Published: 2007

Havelock North High School/Heinz Wattie's

Years 11-13 Teaching Practice - Enterprise Links case study

The Wattie's/ Havelock North High School link was doubly inspired. The school's Technology department was searching for a Food Technologist to work with a Year 13 class.

Published: 2007

Garin College/Sealord

Years 11-13 Teaching Practice - Enterprise Links case study

In 2004, Nelson secondary school Technology teacher Jo Calt at Garin College went to seafood company Sealord with a request: Could one of the company's food technologists come and help her out with her senior classes?

Published: 2007

Havelock North High School/Edges Art Framers

Years 11-13 Teaching Practice - Enterprise Links case study

The Technology department at Havelock North High School has made a variety of industry links, the majority involving technologists talking about their technological practice with the class, and class visits to local workplaces.

Published: 2007

St John's College / RML Automation

Years 11-13 Teaching Practice - Enterprise Links case study

In 2006, St John's College teacher Steve Andrew established a number of links with a range of industries in the Hamilton area for his senior technology classes.

Published: 2007

Wanganui City College/Rob O'Keeffe Joinery Ltd

Years 7-10 Teaching Practice - Enterprise Links case study

Chris Donaldson is the HOD Technology and Graphics at Wanganui City College, a Year 9-13 co-educational secondary school situated in central Wanganui.

Published: 2007

Wanganui Girls / Kitchen Contours / Norsewear

Years 11-13 Teaching Practice - Enterprise Links case study

A genuine culture of enterprise has evolved within the Technology Faculty at Wanganui Girls' College.

Published: 2007

The Tararua College/Meal Innovations Link

Years 11-13 Teaching Practice - Enterprise Links case study

Tararua College and Meal Innovations have built up an ongoing relationship which, despite teething problems, looks like it will come to full fruition in 2008.

Published: 2007

Gisborne Girls' High School/Basically Bush

Years 11-13 Teaching Practice - Enterprise Links case study

Wendy Webb of Gisborne Girls' High School has been working with Sue Boot of Basically Bush every year since 2005 on Wendy's Year 12 'Kiwi Made' unit.

Published: 2007

The St Patrick's College/SurveyLab Link

Years 11-13 Teaching Practice - Enterprise Links case study

In 2003, staff at the Technology Department of St Patrick's College, Wellington, was contacted by Futureintech Facilitator Phil Sadgrove with a proposal. Phil had been cold-called by a pair of young electonics engineers Leon Toorenburg and Jeremy Gold.

Published: 2007

Brokering links

Teaching Practice - Enterprise Links case study

Ken Hird of Wanganui Incorporated (WINC) has been involved in working with technology teachers since the implementation of the new curriculum in the late 1990s.

Published: 2009

Taming traffic with neighbourhood engineers

Year 6 Teaching Practice - Teaching Snapshot

Judy Haden's class of 13 Year 6 students chose to respond to the risk posed to students by the traffic surrounding the school at drop off and collection times.

Published: 2009

Jigsaw Puzzles

Years 7-8 Hard Materials - Teaching Snapshot

Bailey Road School is a full primary school with it's own Technology specialist space that caters for three Year 7 and 8 classes.

Published: 2008

Class trip to AUT

Years 11-13 Teaching Practice - Teaching Snapshot

In the first week of the school year Gill Hedworth takes her Year 13 Food Technology class on a visit to the Auckland University of Technology (AUT).

Published: 2008

Catchphrase - Bebo

Year 10 Digital Technology - Teaching Snapshot

Second year Technology teacher Nicole Hunt hooked her Year 10 students into their website skin > /GlossaryItem.htm?GID=194 project by asking who had a Bebo > /GlossaryItem.htm?GID=192 page* and telling them they would be designing a Bebo skin. Although every student, including those without home co...