Internship leads to employment in data
January 7, 2019
When Samantha Down went before her EIT final year computing degree presentation panel, she already knew the outcome. She’d been working with her new employer for a month even while still...
Entrepreneurs alive and thriving at EIT
November 14, 2018
The Hawke’s Bay economy is changing and EIT is adapting to meet the era of the entrepreneur. “Over the past decade there has been a massive global shift to entrepreneurial ecosystems,”...
Introducing Mary
November 5, 2018
EIT’s commitment to Pasifika students was strengthened when Mary Suni Robertson joined our Pasifika student support team. Mary works from the Pouwhirinaki walk-in space in the Hawke’s Bay...
Innovative Amazon visit inspires
September 20, 2018
EIT’s Hawke’s Bay campus was buzzing when the earth’s most customer-centric company came to visit. Johnathon Meichtry, Principal Solutions Architect for Amazon’s AWS business, wowed...
Shaping Up a Career In IT
September 11, 2018
Leaving William Colenso College, Harley Simmons didn’t know what he wanted to do in life. A year working as a labourer confirmed that he didn’t want to spend it doing a manual job and...
On Track for A Career in Computing
May 30, 2018
EIT Bachelor of Computing Systems graduate Martin Bischofer secured his operations technician job after working his final-semester internship at DataNow. “This was great for us,” the...
Govhack Sparks Creative Response
December 12, 2017
Hosted by EIT and held on campus, Hawke’s Bay’s recent GovHack challenged some of the best and brightest minds in the IT sector to come up with creative mock systems based on national...
Academic Focused on Educational Technology
August 22, 2017
Kathryn MacCallum breaks the mould with her recent appointment as an associate professor in EIT’s School of Computing. At 35, the programme coordinator for the Postgraduate Diploma in...
EIT Students to Spend Semester Overseas
July 26, 2017
EIT continues to grow its international student exchange programme, with two students heading to Germany next month. EIT has partnerships with 45 educational institutions throughout the...
From Unemployed to Unstoppable
May 2, 2017
EIT Tairāwhiti valedictorian Keegan Spraggs went from being unemployed, depressed and disillusioned with education to a job that’s taking him places via a Bachelor of Computing...