Our future students arrive at Unitec for their ‘Go Live’ experience!
Last week we launched the inaugural Go Live workshops spearheaded by Andrea Thumath – Director UPC and Students Under 25s Success, and the UPC team.
Go Live brought 600 secondary school students to Unitec, years 9 and 10, from Mt Albert Grammar, Glenfield College and Kingsway schools, plus students from Rutherford College from the Mahi a Toi programme. They came to explore life on campus and take part in a series of workshops designed by many of our Schools. Each student was welcomed with a pōwhiri into Ngākau Māhaki before being escorted by the UPC team to their respective workshops.
Each of the workshops were designed to give a taste of what we do here at Unitec in a fun and interactive way. Some of the stand outs for our guests, were dog training with Environmental and Animal Sciences, Māori arts and Practices with our Kaihautū in and around Te Noho Kotahitanga, building DC motors and playing with the electronic components with Electrical Engineering, Cyber Security with Computing and Information Technology, making trays with Trades and Services and a graffiti art workshop with Creative Industries, plus much more.
This was a brilliant example of Unitec coming together under the principles of Te Noho Kotahitanga for the benefit of our communities and the Under 25 priority group, as well as further strengthening our relationships with secondary schools from around Auckland.
With the success being measured in how well the students enjoyed and engaged in the experience, the team is looking forward to doubling the numbers next year!
Following their Health & Safety briefing, the students are at their work benches ready to get underway with their woodwork experience
At the woodwork experience they receive a briefing on how to manipulate handles into shape for the trays they built (tray is pictured bottom right)
Then there was their civil engineering experience , and much more…!
*Note: These and any other photos taken during these workshops cannot be released externally – we do not have permission to distribute them and would be in breach of the Children’s Act if they were used beyond this platform