When broadcaster Stacey Morrison was growing up in Ōtautahi Christchurch, she had one fluent speaker of Te Reo Māori in her life – the grandmother she called Kui-Kui. “I grew up in Ōtautahi Christchurch and I didn’t speak Māori at all, actually. I was too scared to be...
In 2017, 23-year-old Canterbury engineering student Oliver Hunt saw a problem, and threw everything he had at fixing it. It was while hunting around for a research project for his Master of Engineering in Management that Oliver had a fortuitous conversation with an...
When Dr Ellen Joan Ford (Nelson) comes across a situation that annoys her, she goes all-in to make a difference. As a researcher, she discovered working parents were being forced to work as though they didn’t have families to care for – so she committed to normalising...
Kia Ora, my name is Una Drayton. I hail from Ohakune in the beautiful Ruapehu region and recently graduated from Ruapehu College where I was Head Girl and founder of the Enviro Club for 2022. This year I am a first-year student at Te Whare Wānanga o Waitaha |...
Reon was a year 13 student at Wesley College, a rural based co-curriculum kura immersing students in a faith, sporting, academic, and culturally diverse environment. Reon has an immense passion for the outdoors, focusing around outdoor recreation and kaitiakitanga. He...
