Puuhoro Waananga Term One

Students partook in three workshops during the day. In partnership with Engineering New Zealand and the Matatā Initiative, Pūhoro STEMM created pūrākau-based science and engineering challenges and delivered these nation-wide to partner schools. Across the day, tauira were supported to breathe life into pūrakau and work through the STEM challenges associated with them.

The challenges included:

Rona me Marama:

In this challenge, tauira were required to construct a hydraulic arm and use it to pick up Rona and place her on a raised platform.

This is in reference to the pūrākau where Rona cursed at Marama who reached out and took her high into the sky to reside with him.

Ngā Hau o Tāwhirimātea:

This task relates to the pūrākau of Tāwhirimātea's contributions in the creation of Hineahuone. This challenge required tauira to construct a wind powered model. Just as Tawhirimatea gave Hineahuone her respiratory system, our tauira harnessed the power of wind and made their wind models walk. 

Ngā Mata o te Ariki:

This challenge required tauira to use digital technology to retell Matariki narratives. They used block coding and microbits to move mini robots along a storyline which described the importance of each of the stars in Matariki.

A huge thanks to Mr Ben Smith, one of our wonderful Technology teachers, for accompanying and transporting the aakonga to the event.