As the curtains closed on the final performance of Hamilton Operatic Society’s high energy, mid-winter musical Sister Act, a group of Wintec staff and students can count themselves among some of New Zealand’s finest musical theatre talent.
Wintec’s Centre for Sport Science and Human Performance is on a mission to find the most agile, powerful and the fastest Waikato athlete to win bragging rights for their sport and school.
Waikato teachers became students for a day at Te Kowhai Primary School recently to learn alternative teaching approaches to raise student engagement and achievement with Wintec.
Wintec's industry engagement director Klaus Reiter engages with employers and industry partners, bringing real-life stories into the classroom and helping students to gain real experiences in the workplace.
Third year Wintec design student, Alice Leonard, is an intern at Area Design. Alice is developing design for Wintec's annual Spark International Festival of Music, Media, Arts and Design under the guidance of the design agency.
The heat was on at the biggest culinary competition in New Zealand when 500 secondary and tertiary students took over Wintec’s Centre for Hospitality kitchens during the 2018 Waikato Culinary Fare.
In the true spirit of Matariki, a team of Wintec staff volunteers prepared and delivered a memorable dinner to around 40 people at Hamilton’s night shelters last week.
Six Wintec students will experience a trip of a lifetime when they fly to China in September as part of the prestigious Prime Minister’s Scholarship for Asia.
Just weeks away now, Spark International Festival of Music, Media, Arts and Design at Wintec promises a dynamic experience of creative visionaries from New Zealand and around the globe.
He pruned trees before chainsaws were widely used, played rugby against Italy and even dropped tree paint in Lord Jonathan Guinness’ eye, but the memory Martin Herbert is most fond of is his role helping to grow arboriculture education in New Zealand at Wintec.
Curator Wendy Richdale is an expert at bringing people together to produce new, creative and engaging experiences. We talk to Wendy about Wintec's current exhibition and the role Ramp Gallery plays in art education at Wintec.
Sport has always been a dominating force in Lydia Tuaiti’s life. She says "sport has the power to bring change. The reason I chose to study sport was to support kids like me, to achieve and go as far with their sport as they want.”
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