Curious Minds

Friday, 13th October 2023 at 9:15am

Curious Minds Conference

A select group of Green Bay High School students: Olivia Tukia, Bailey Newman, Elena Brunt, Benji Godsmark, Thoramei Resture, and Malia Fifita took part in an investigative project in partnership with Otago University during the Term break as part of their ongoing scientific research project, investigating the wonderful world of natural eco-systems using lichen as a bioindicator of air quality.

Accompanied by teachers Dr Angelo Tedoldi (Science, Chemistry, Biology) and Madeleine Collins (Science, Physics, Earth Space Science, Chemistry) students were very excited to meet with Dr Adam Martin at GNS and Dr David Warren at the Department of Chemistry at Otago University. As part of their ongoing WeSTEM investigations, the group also collected lichens from around Dunedin to test for air quality - with some interesting results!

Students will be presenting their project results to WeSTEM alongside other schools involved at an upcoming Curious Minds Conference within the next few weeks. This is a great opportunity for our students to share their amazing work, build their presentation skills.

WeSTEM is an initiative of Te Hononga Akoranga COMET and is funded by the Ministry of Pacific People’s Toloa Community Impact funds to increase Pacific people’s participation in science, technology, engineering, arts, and mathematics (STEAM).