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Kiwi Stories

This Feilding school has just won an international robotics award (again!)

Feilding's Manchester Street School celebrates victory in the VEX Robotics Challenge for the third consecutive year. #STEM #robotics.

By Sara Barker • 3 min read • Fri, 17th May 2019

Robotics

Kiwi girls take on robotics world… and WIN

Tara Stevens (14) and Riley Pollard (11), from New Plymouth and Okato and the Nakibots team, beat 80 other teams from across the world.

By Ben Moore • 3 min read • Thu, 16th May 2019

DataCentre infrastructure

Waikino School's $10k win turns shipping container into STEM learning hub

Waikino School transforms a $10,000 Genesis grant into a solar-powered STEM hub with a shipping container, featuring a kitchen and 3D printer.

By Sara Barker • 2 min read • Wed, 24th Apr 2019

Education, Learning & Training

IBM to roll out P-TECH training programme in NZ schools

IBM teams up for NZ's education initiative, boosting tech skills and jobs for Auckland teens at Aorere & Manurewa HS.

By Sara Barker • 3 min read • Mon, 1st Apr 2019

Kordia

Meet the future of women in IT

Emily Sopers is set to reshape the tech world, winning Kordia's inaugural Women in Technology Scholarship to tackle gender imbalance in the IT sector.

By Sara Barker • 2 min read • Mon, 25th Mar 2019

DataCentre infrastructure

New Genesis trust hoped to drive STEM inspiration in schools

The trust will provide relevant equipment to New Zealand schools in the hopes that it will inspire students' interest in STEM and renewable energy.

By Staff Writer • 3 min read • Thu, 21st Feb 2019

Callaghan Innovation

NZ's Maori innovators are on the rise

Māori innovators are making waves, with record participation in R&D and nearly half of the finalists in this year's New Zealander of the Year Awards.

By Jacques-Pierre (JP) Dumas • 3 min read • Tue, 19th Feb 2019

Global Stories

Global Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) stories

DataCentre infrastructure

Two students win US apprenticeship with global data center giant

Emma Brennan and Amy Dolan, students from Cork, have won a US apprenticeship with Park Place Technologies, promoting gender diversity in STEM.

By Staff Writer • 3 min read • Tue, 14th May 2019

Data Analytics

Australia needs 35,000 skilled IT experts to fuel DX initiatives

Australia is crying out for at least 35,000 skilled IT experts who will be desperately needed to serve organisations large and small this year.

By Sara Barker • 3 min read • Mon, 13th May 2019

DevOps

Inclusivity the key to bridging the tech talent gap

Annabel Lee says the gender imbalance in data centre and IT circles will have a significant impact in the future with more jobs than graduates to fill them.

By Annabel Lee • 4 min read • Mon, 11th Mar 2019

International Women's Day

Why we need to work together to promote a better future

This International Women's Day, industry leaders stress the need for inclusive practices to boost women's participation in tech and ensure a balanced future.

By Jacques-Pierre (JP) Dumas • 4 min read • Fri, 8th Mar 2019

International Women's Day

Where to from here? Women in cybersecurity speak up

Women in cybersecurity discuss challenges from gender pay gaps to toxic workplaces on International Women's Day, urging for a more gender-balanced industry.

By Kai Ping Lew • 8 min read • Fri, 8th Mar 2019

Health Technologies

Alibaba Cloud commits to 'Tech for Change' initiative

By providing access to its tech expertise and cloud resources, Alibaba Cloud hopes to promote IT education around the globe.

By Staff Writer • 3 min read • Wed, 27th Feb 2019

Hyperscale

Park Place jumps aboard girls in STEM initiative

It's no secret that the IT industry and data centre circles are short of female representation, and this trio hopes to help overcome that issue.

By Staff Writer • 3 min read • Sat, 9th Feb 2019

Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics

Exclusive: The changing role of women in technology

Emma Pudney from Rackspace ANZ shares insights on closing the gender divide in tech, addressing imposter syndrome, and empowering women to pursue STEM careers.

By Jacques-Pierre (JP) Dumas • 5 min read • Fri, 1st Feb 2019

Cartech

Bringing autonomous vessels to the open water

The Aussies took silver at the Maritime RobotX Challenge, which saw entries from across the world competing with their self-driving tech on the ocean.

By Ben Moore • 2 min read • Thu, 31st Jan 2019