Tech 21

Papakura High School students at the Tech 21 Summit on the 24th May 2021

The Ministry of Education and NZTech have partnered to host Tech21, to inspire ākonga (learners) into technology careers.

Whaia te pae tawhiti kia tata, Whakamaua te pae tata kia tina!

Explore beyond the distant horizon and draw it near, take hold of your potential so it becomes your reality!

https://technz.nz/industry/

Technology newsletter Term 2022

Technology dept

Clubs

The technology department is running the following clubs at Papakura High School: Coding, Esports, RAD (Recycle a Device) and Filming Club.

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. 

Caden Awhitu

 Other short films include: Samoan Language week, Whanua sports day and the school promotional video.

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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  

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. 

TECH22

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.

Esports comp - Halo Infinite Armageddon

 Papakura Esports for Halo Infinite 

During the morning and lunch breaks, students have played Halo Infinite over the past several weeks. Benjamin Foster, Cole Devenie, Troy Phillips, and Wairua Moon looked forward to taking part in this multiplayer competition on the 11th of June 2022.  The opportunity for students to form a team of four and register for the event was led by the students through their own doing and getting to the event and back. The team have shown some amazing teamwork skills, communication and determination to have a go. It was also the first time they have attended any Armageddon Esports comp in person. This showed students were displaying the core values of Papakura High School, Te Reo Matatini (Communication) and Mana Motuhake (Student Agency). 

The shoutcasters (commentary host) pointed out that these opportunities never existed when they weres at school thus no computers were not fast enough to support esports game based learning! We have been very fortunate to have four esport machines solely for students to use. Many opportunities in the esport industry can lead to a career pathway. The esports club runs every Wednesday after school and practice can be arranged during break times. 

What next? The students have decided that the next comp will be an inter-school Rocket League comp happening soon.  

KHE (Kura High Esports) came 12th place out of 35. This is pretty amazing since it was their first time entering the Halo Infinite Armageddon comp!

https://www.armageddonexpo.com/News/WINTERGEDDON-IS-COMING/ 

Te Tiriti o Waitangi

 

Te Tiriti o Waitangi - a Visual History

Dr Haare Williams (MNZM) - Distinguished artist, poet, broadcaster and kaumātua - bio

Rereokeroa Shaw - Pioneering Māori-medium educator and lecturer - bio

-Auckland University - lecturer

-Te Tiriti o Waitangi for Kaiako part 1 - Rereokeroa Shaw

Ngā Moemoea - dreams and aspirations for rangatahi - Dr Haare Williams

implications for teaching.

Papakura High School Pedagogy

Papakura Pedagogy Site

Esports - Rocket Masters Competition Invercargill

 Rocket Masters Competition Invercargill

Esports - Rocket Masters

Over the weekend between 6-8th May 2022, a team of 9 students accompanied by Satchet Singh and Mr Bolton-Hampton took part in an esports tournament in Invercargill.

Papakura High School was the only team competing at the tournament from the North Island. Our students did really well and were fantastic ambassadors for the school, with two of the three teams placing in the top 10 (meaning they won prize money).

Some of the teams have been training together since at least the start of the year and our students have been training for three weeks, so an awesome achievement.

Charlotte Eastham, the only girl on our team, performed so well that she has been earmarked to potentially compete at the next Commonwealth Games as esports will feature there. Very well done to all the participants: Charlotte Eastham, Brody Gwatkin, Kingston Hancy, George Mackey, Wairua Moon, Tito Paseka, Jay Patel, Shacon Rehu and Dylan Toms and huge thanks to Mr Singh and Mr Bolton-Hampton for giving our students the opportunity to participate in this event.

Link to all the photos of the event here.