New Music and Performing Arts and Contemporary Art degrees complete a suite of four new degrees designed to take Waikato Institute of Technology (Wintec) students into the future world of work in the creative sector.
It’s been a big year for James Kilpatrick. The 33-year-old arborist from Tauranga has won his third consecutive Men’s International Tree Climbing Championship, beating 48 competitors from more than 20 countries.
A new generation of designers, photographers, musicians and multimedia students will reveal their work in NOW, a showcase of creative work by 2018 Wintec School of Media Arts students.
Soda Inc., a Wintec company, won the Not for Profit Award in the Westpac Waikato Business Awards in Hamilton on Friday night.
Two Cambridge students have beaten close to 100 Waikato athletes to win Wintec’s Champion of the Codes.
When champion rally driver Hayden Paddon sent gravel flying on Raglan’s Whaanga coast road recently to win the Hyundai NZ Rally of the Coast, a Wintec student was there behind the scenes working on his car.
Wintec academic and clinical psychologist Andre McLachlan has been named one of the top 100 Māori leaders, joining a list which recognises people who are doing extraordinary work in their everyday lives.
It’s official, enrolment is now open for New Zealand’s newest physiotherapy school.
A leading hospice in Nepal desperately needs a new building, more beds and a children’s ward, and a team from Fairfield Rotary Club are working with two Wintec students to make this happen.
This month sees the culmination of the Waikato initiative promoting community inclusion for international students, with 150 Wintec and University of Waikato students taking part in a noho marae (marae stay) at Tūrangawaewae in Ngāruawāhia.
Wintec is proud to host the nationals again at its Rotokauri campus, where top trades apprentices and trainees will duel it out in categories ranging from Automotive Technology, to Plumbing & Heating, to Mobile Robotics.
Next year will herald a change of venue for one of the country’s major art awards. Wintec is now a major partner for the 2019 New Zealand Painting and Printmaking Award and will host the award exhibition.
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