Last year in preparation for the 123 Tech Challenge that students from Auroa Primary School entered into, winning the Taranaki/Whanganui Competition (a Y7/8 competition when the team was made up of three Y6 students and one Y5 students!) the team went to Fonterra in Kapuni and made a presentation to the workers at the facility.
Fonterra gifted the students the funds to purchase ten units which were used for testing purposes and these ten units have formed the foundation of the stoat aspect of the project which is receiving national attention.
- Three of these units are in constant use at New Plymouth Airport, running testing on weather tightness, solar power and basic baiting. These units have been deployed for just over a month and have resulted in the capture of a Stoat and numerous mice.
- One unit has been deployed to the McKenzine Country, the South Island in a trap line inside a DOC 250.
- Two units are currently enroute to the West Coast, to be deployed as part of a Stoat operation that is about to take place in Whataroa, South Island
- Two units are about to be given to the Department of Conservation for deployment as part of the efforts on the Mountain in Taranaki with the local stoat network.
- Two units are going to Lake Rotokare Trust to support thier local efforts to control Mustelids.
The students from Room One have been responsible for putting together the sound profile for these units, putting the units together and will soon begin to manufacture a new group of units. We would again like to thank Fonterra for the support with this project.
We would also like to once again acknowledge the invaluable support of Venture Taranaki, Curious Minds Taranaki and Andrew Hornblow from Opunake.
This is a creative, innovative project for our students to be involved in combining reseach, design, coding and allow them to apply these skills towards a local problem that will upskill them for the future.
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