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 A recent weekend University of Canterbury PLD workshop by staff from Longwood University in Virginia, USA introduced a group of Year 7-13 girls to the world of e-textiles. “It’s an area of Technology where Electronics, Computer Science and Soft Materials skills all intersect – and creativity definitely prospers,” said invited observer Tricia Winter, Queen Charlotte College HOD Technology. Read more...  A recent weekend University of Canterbury PLD workshop by staff from Longwood University in Virginia, USA introduced a group of Year 7-13 girls to the world of e-textiles. “It’s an area of Technology where Electronics, Computer Science and Soft Materials skills all intersect – and creativity definitely prospers,” said invited observer Tricia Winter, Queen Charlotte College HOD Technology. Read more...  When children at the Comrie Park Kindergarten, north of Whangarei, showed interest in building a birdhouse, student teacher Sara Croft went online with them to find information on building birdhouses. From one of the many sites visited they discovered a plan and a list of instructions to download. The ensuing process was documented in a series of learning stories with photographs. Read more...  Many of you will be only too familiar with adjusting to the demands of regular cycles of curriculum development and implementation in Technology. Well, England is going through such a phase at the moment – and inputs into their proposed curriculum development are not at all unified. Read more...  This year’s Engineering in Action Day at Waikato Institute of Technology (Wintec) was again highly successful and well supported, with over 250 students and staff from 17 schools in the region attending the event. Read more...  In 2011, Alex Fraser completed a Bachelor of Design, with Honours in Industrial Design, at Massey University in Wellington. A few months after graduating she moved into her first permanent product design position – at Pacific Helmets Ltd – a Wanganui-based company that designs and manufactures an extensive range of safety and rescue helmets for the New Zealand domestic market and world-wide export. Read more...  The above image shows Massey University Industrial Design student Alex Fraser’s fourth-year design project which gained an award in the student section of the Product Design category in the 2012 Best Design Awards with ‘Swifty Sue’, a prototype transfer chair for use in a hospital environment. In this issue, we profile Alex’s vocational pathway from school to product designer, and on this page we take a look at the history of these awards. Read more... A few more gems from Laughing Squid. Read more...  ‘Connect - putting the pieces together’ 7-9 October, Wellington High School; meet and greet Sunday 6 October Read more... NZGTTA News: NZGTTA news: July 2013 NZACDITT News: NZACDITT News: July 2013 HETTANZ News: HETTANZ News: July 2013 TENZ News: TENZ News: July 2013 |
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