Internships

Employers are invited to participate in our media arts internship programme.

Students from the School of Media Arts are available to intern with employers who can benefit from their skills and talents. Areas of expertise include moving image, photography, graphic design, digital design, journalism, painting, sculpture, audio engineering, music, sound design, public relations and advertising.

What are internships?

Internships are 120 hour placements of Wintec students, offering a structured form of work experience that students receive course credit for.

How it works

Students keep a daily journal, build a portfolio and present a seminar and written report to their peers. The employer sets the student's tasks and projects, and completes an evaluation form on completion to provide feedback on the student's performance. Find out more about the details and employer benefits of internships in the FAQ section.

Further information

For further information contact the Internship director.

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Projects

New Wave publication project

A book put together by Media Arts staff and students records the journeys of 18 migrants who now live in Hamilton, but were born outside New Zealand. The New Wave: Hamilton’s Migrant Community, looks at the growing diversity of Hamilton’s population. While 70 percent of Hamilton is broadly defined as European, and 20 percent as Māori and Pasifika, there are also citizens from 160 ethnic backgrounds. Journalism tutor Charles Riddle says it is this last 10 percent of the city's population that is fascinatingly diverse and makes for interesting reading. Around 15 students worked on the publication under the expert guidance of editor in residence Aimie Cronin. The project team also worked closely with the Hamilton Migrant Centre and the Hamilton City Council. The book is the first phase in a two-year project which will culminate with an exhibition in the Waikato Museum.

New Wave Launch books Photo by Geoff Ridder

River City Sound sessions

A moving image student produced a multi-camera production making live videos for local bands.

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Matariki Interactive Waka project

The Matariki Interactive Waka Project is a multi-disciplinary project that aims to create an interactive waka sculpture that will sit beside the Waikato River at Hamilton’s Ferrybank Park and draw the people of the city back to the river.

It’s a community project lead by Media Arts tutor Joe Citizen with Wintec students in the areas of Trade, Engineering, Media Arts and Early Childhood acting as co-creators of the sculpture. We also have several Wintec staff members and independent researchers on board who are all working hard towards a final goal that benefits the people of Hamilton and visitors to this beautiful place. We are also working in partnership with Wintec’s Maori Achievement Office who are advising on tikanga, matauranga and whenua consultation.

Artist's impression of Tōia Mai, Hamilton’s new interactive waka sculpture to be gifted by Wintec.

Moving Image students profile Waikato Museum

One of Moving Image Production students assignments is a group client-based Documentary. This is the fourth year we have teamed up with Waikato Museum who has been our Client for two Museum staff profiles that share behind the scenes stories at the Waikato Museum. Over the last few years of this ongoing community project, Moving Image students have made an excellent range of videos highlighting a variety of Museum staff profiles: what they do, how they do it and why they like working at the Waikato Museum. We look forward to continuing our relationship with the Waikato Museum again in the near future.

News

Third Year Wintec Communication students are connecting communities

Tuesday, 25 May 2021

Wintec third year Communication students are getting real-world experience working with Lisa Booth (centre) from Kete Kai.

Wintec third year Communication students run an ‘agency’ and work on projects to help business and community projects grow. This year, they are working alongside Hamilton-based Kete Kai, a meal delivery service with a kaupapa to end hunger in Aotearoa by 2030. Wintec student, Alex Paley writes about their experience.

The 16 year three Communication Wintec students have teamed up with Lisa Booth and the team at Kete Kai, to put their creative minds to work to come up with a marketing strategy on getting communities involved in the drive to end food insecurity.

Wintec “Agency Director” and tutor, Abby Dalgety, says “there’s a mix of different strengths and skills that will be put to task during this assignment. I am excited to see what the creative-minded students come up with.”

Food security, knowing when and what your next meal will be and having a full pantry to come home, is a privilege many kiwis wouldn’t think twice about. But when one in five children live in poverty in your home country, a demand for change is needed to shape and reform the way we view what’s happening right in our backyard.

That’s where Kete Kai comes in. A company dedicated to not only ending food insecurity that disproportionately affects the Māori and Pasifika communities within Aotearoa, but a goal to provide job opportunities and activate real change from within. Their kaupapa: to end food insecurity by 2030.

Among Kete Kai’s values are mana and koha, the custom in which gift-giving is reciprocal. They want to not only want to provide food to families at an affordable price, but to educate and set Kiwi families up for a sustainable and healthy food security. Kete Kai understands that those who are struggling do not always need monetary donations, but to be provided the resources and opportunity to pull themselves out from the unfair advantage they were systemically dealt with, to be taken on long term, rather than a short term, unsustainable fix.

This is the attitude needed to drive change within our community, for healthier, happier kiwis, but they can’t do it alone! The reality of a fed and fuelled Aotearoa starts with you. When they say it takes a village to raise a child, we mean it takes a community ecosystem to create equilibrium. To reach this goal, we need to create connections within our community.

The third year Wintec Communication students are eager to work with Kete Kai, to help them achieve their goal of a healthy and fed Aotearoa. Watch this space for some changes coming to Kete Kai and follow along on the journey to a healthier Aotearoa!

Find out more about studying Communication with Wintec School of Media Arts.

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