Technology dept
kura High Filming Club
We have Mrs Imlach who is facilitating during the weekly club sessions. Students have written a script for a horror film due to be released shortly. Caden Awhitu was fortunate to win the best drama award for Maorilands Rangatahi Films.
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Caden Awhitu |
Other short films include: Samoan Language week, Whanua sports day and the school promotional video.
Esports
A year and half in the making from thinking about esports to now putting things into action for our rangatahi is an amazing milestone for the school thus an opportunity to take 9 students to Invercargill to compete in a Rocket League comp. We came 9th and 10th and took home $500 prize money. 4 students took it upon themselves to also compete at the Halo Infinite comp. These students came 12th out of 35, a great achievement considering this was their first-ever esports comp! Rangatahi have been regularly practising during morning tea and lunch and they want to now host a Rocket League comp on the 20th of August for students at PHS. We are receiving guidance from Microsoft to ensure the event runs smoothly.
Launching Esports 
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RAD - Recycle a Device
The club has been dormant since the students received their initial training at the start of term one from remojo Tech and their team in partnership with RAD. Students, Julian Abel and Satchet Singh received refresher training. We are in a position to launch the RAD club Thursday 7th July. Club members will have the opportunity to take ownership of their designated roles, understand the club goal and receive some prizes for the students sent to us from Bronwyn Scott from RAD.
Coding Club
The weekly coding club has been running every week, with interested students attending and learning to code through game-based coding such as Minecraft. Some students have been practising their Python coding on the Grok website and some younger students from Intermediate and Primary have been coding using the Scratch platform.
Rangatahi from Papakura High attended the TECH22 summit on the 30th of June: The exhibitors were from Microsoft, Trademe, Tesla, She#, 3 Bags Full, Weta, Datacom, Engineering and construction, Media Design School, Geo A.R Games, Kiwa, Holmes and Amazon. Kura students enjoyed talking with the Tech industry as well as the opportunity to sit in a newly released Tesla and had a demonstration of VR (virtual reality) gadgets used in the construction industry. Some of our rangatahi are now considering a career in Tech!
Here is their flipgrid video feedback from this awesome event.
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