Emanuel Dunn used recycled cardboard to ‘carve’ this panel.

Some 50 secondary school students gathered on EIT’s campus this week to brainstorm ideas on safeguarding the future of Hawke’s Bay as a great place to live.

EIT put its marketing muscle behind the Youth Environment Expo, staged by Hawke’s Bay Regional Council’s Youth Environment Council at the Whare Mātoro in Te Ūranga Waka (School of Māori Studies).

Environmental experts talked about their work in biology, the natural sciences, engineering, conservation, horticulture, energy and other fields, while Emanuel Dunn, an artist who gained his visual arts and design degree at EIT’s ideaschool, showcased his work using materials such as recycled cardboard.

The students also participated in an afternoon of challenges and activities.