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Book launch: The Green Graduate
June 9, 2011
The challenge: every student graduates able to think and act as a sustainable practitioner, whatever their field. This is the goal Otago Polytechnic set itself and, as one of the main proponents, Samuel Mann became the go-to guy. Here he takes the reader on that journey and in doing so provides the framework for making […]
Polytechnic geeks ace speed dating
September 23, 2010
Dunedin ICT Internship Speed Dating 2010 Originally uploaded by Samuel Mann Last night 22 of our students met with 14 of the city’s IT firms in a bid to secure much sought after summer internships. This is a perfect win-win-win. Last year 24 students from Polytechnic and University got internships and 17 of these resulted […]
CityScape team wins national award – again!
July 14, 2010
CityScape is a panoramic exhibition system for the Otago Settlers’ Museum. It engages visitors to the museum in building a shared narrative of place. Sustainability is a theme in our capstone projects. We have a focus on communicating and engaging people in aspects of sustainability. We took the CityScape poster to the CITRENZ Conference (incorporating […]
Mashup: Pecha-Kucha with a Twist
June 29, 2010
At this year’s CITRENZ/NACCQ conference we’re introducing Mashup: Pecha-Kucha with a Twist. This promises to be a fast paced, visual, interactive collaborative celebration of computing research. You are invited to participate (even if you know nothing about computing or research!). A Pecha Kucha sees the fast paced presentation of ideas – each presenter has […]
Computing for Sustainability 
June 30, 2011
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