News - November 2019

International champion to lead waka ama course
November 12, 2019

Spaces are filling fast for EIT’s new programme centred on waka ama, which is being led by two of the region’s top experts. Student liaison administrator Kiwi Campbell, who is one of the...

Japanese expat rises to career challenge
November 12, 2019

Fumiaki Omae, widely known as Fumi, always had a passion for the great outdoors and dreamed of travelling and exploring the world. He grew up in a city close to Osaka in Japan and worked there...

Teachers learn to use nature as green classroom
November 7, 2019

On Thursday, fittingly coinciding with World Outdoor Classroom Day, EIT hosted the last of four “Connected to Nature” teacher workshops. Twelve Hawke’s Bay environmental experts shared...

Students proving age is no barrier to robotics
November 7, 2019

The most popular programme at the Tairāwhiti Trades Academy at EIT this year would have to be the Level 3 Trades Academy Computer Technology drone making course, which has achieved the...

Jo’s extraordinary journey from student to lecturer
November 4, 2019

It all began with a computer. Of Ngāti Kahungunu descent Jo Heperi was born and bred in Takapau, twenty minutes from Waipukurau. Jo worked as rouser (wool sorter) for half of her life while...