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Innovative students solve challenges
Innovative students solve challenges for New Zealand’s primary sectors
GrowingNZ Innovation Challenge Day: Auckland
What:
Dozens of Year 10 and 11 secondary
school students are set to compete in a fast-paced event
that invites them to solve a series of challenges facing New
Zealand’s primary sectors.
The GrowingNZ Innovation Challenge Day requiresstudents to use their research skills and practical knowledge of science, technology and business, to design and prototype an innovative and viable solution to a real-life situation being faced by one of New Zealand’s largest export sectors.
The day is part of GrowingNZ’s programme that provides information, activities and resources to create awareness of opportunities for young people in any one of New Zealand’s innovative primary sectors. It aims to broaden young New Zealanders’ understanding of the primary sectors and quash the perception that it’s just about ‘gumboots and physically hard work’. By 2025, the primary sectors will need 50,000 more people with a diverse range of skills including technology, business and science.
The 2017 event saw students address issues such as maintaining on-farm water supply, pasture measurement and biosecurity. This year’s students will be introduced to new sector-relevant challenges, announced on the day. The day-long event is one of seven being hosted around the country throughout the year with others being held in Wellington, Tauranga, Hamilton, Christchurch, Invercargill and Dunedin.
Who:
The event is run by Young Enterprise,
funded by DairyNZ and supported by GrowingNZ (the Primary
Industry Capability Alliance - PICA). PICA is an alliance of
industry, educators and government working together to
connect a diverse range of talented people with
opportunities to thrive in New Zealand’s primary
sectors.
When:
9am-3pm, Wednesday 27
June
Where:
Trusts Arena, Henderson, Auckland
To find out when other GrowingNZ Innovation Challenge Days will be hosted in other regions around New Zealand, please visit http://www.growingnz.org.nz/eventcalendar.php
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