Support builds for Hamilton’s interactive waka sculpture
Funding success for the Wintec team planning an interactive waka sculpture for Hamilton’s Ferrybank Reserve means production for the community project can now move ahead.
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Wintec staff dominate local finalists in prestigious art award
Three of the four Hamilton-based finalists in this year’s National Contemporary Art Award are closely connected with Wintec’s School of Media Arts.
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Students use design thinking to solve industry problems
Making breakfast and keeping the coffee coming for a room full of industry partners and Wintec staff was one of the easier challenges given to the first intake of students at Wintec’s Design Hub.
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Wintec project helps meet community need
Residents at Hamilton’s Alandale Retirement Village are the proud new owners of bespoke letterboxes thanks to a project by Wintec’s My Career Pathway programme students.
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Deputy Prime Minister Paula Bennett to speak at hottest media event in New Zealand
Deputy Prime Minister Paula Bennett is guest speaker at the next Wintec Press Club free lunch extravaganza in Hamilton. She will speak at the hottest media event in New Zealand on Friday 9 June.
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Scholarships respond to need for more Māori in health careers
Ten Wintec students have received Dame Te Ātairangikaahu nursing scholarships from Wintec and the Māori King’s Office to encourage more Waikato-Tainui people into health careers.
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Community steels itself for Hamilton’s waka sculpture
A highly interactive waka sculpture planned for Hamilton’s Ferrybank Reserve on the Waikato River needs donors to come on board and fund the steel to make this six metre sculpture a reality in 2018.
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Barry Harris appointed as Wintec Chair
Barry Harris has been appointed as Wintec’s chair of council by the Tertiary Education, Skills and Employment Minister Paul Goldsmith.
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Tech guru at Wintec says technology is a tool not a destination
Waikato technology guru Rachel Kelly urged an audience at Wintec last week not to be afraid of the ever-changing world of technology and to instead use it to their advantage.
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New research on overseas drivers challenges perceptions
A Wintec research project has exposed some interesting findings about overseas drivers, their driving behaviour and accidents on New Zealand roads.
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Wintec graduates sweep the finals of the Canon Media Awards
The finalists for the 2017 Canon Media Awards were announced this week and they include no fewer than 14 Wintec graduates. Their nominations are from a range of categories including sport, photography, feature writing, Māori affairs, headlines, health and videography.
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Waikato gets its first sports performance and wellbeing clinic
Do you have big goals to achieve this year? Wintec has opened Waikato’s first sports performance and wellbeing clinic to help improve your health, enhance your training, sort your nutrition, or level-up your athletic prowess.
