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Newsline@ Newsletter from the University of Waikato Student Recruitment Offi ce February 2010

Entry Requirements for the Student Recruitment News Bachelor of Computer Graphic The new year starts with us having some changes to our Student Recruitment Design (BCGD) in 2011 Team. Courtney Mason, a graduate of the University and an ex Hillary Scholar, There has been a change to the portfolio students has joined the team while Katherine Roodt is on parental leave. We welcome back are required to provide with their application as Carey Collier as our Māori Student Recruitment Adviser. Awhimai Huka has left for part of the selection process into this degree. a new role at Te Wānanga o and we thank her for all her work while she Students are now required to submit an A3 was part of our team. portfolio containing 10 pieces of their best work in art or design. Further details are available at We will see many of you either during our first round visits or at our Open Day on www.cs.waikato.ac.nz/cgd/portfolio.html 30 April – fine weather has been ordered for this year! and in the 2011 prospectus. Summer in Antarctica

Natalie Miedema, a recent MSc graduate from the Earth and Ocean Sciences Department at Waikato University, has just returned from, as she says, ‘nine incredible days in one of the most amazing places on Earth – Antarctica.’

A love for the environment, as reflected throughout her choice of study of hydrology, ecology, geochemistry, soils, and environmental science, along with a long-running passion for Antarctica, saw Natalie (ex College) selected as the Antarctica Sir Peter Blake Trust Antarctic Youth Ambassador for 2009/2010.

The principal aim for this programme is to engage young in Antarctic environmental issues and the person selected each year will contribute to Antarctica New Zealand’s environmental programme and be an ambassador helping to educate others through their experiences.

While ‘just being there’ was incredible for new wind turbines erected to supply power to When asked what the temperatures were like Natalie, her list of “highlights” is endless: sleeping the and American bases, observing dozens Natalie replied, ‘I think we reached a high of -2° C in a snow cave during field training, trekking of orca whales patrolling of the sea ice one day, but if it was cold then I didn’t notice across a glacier, dangling from a rope inside a and watching minke whales and adelie penguins it. One morning at breakfast we saw a group crevasse, meeting Sir David Attenborough, flying visit Scott Base. For Natalie, the opportunity of penguins waddling across the sea ice just in in a helicopter across the sea ice to the Taylor to spend time in Antarctica was ‘a real dream front of Scott Base. Of course we rushed out to Valley (one of the largely ice free Dry Valleys), come true’, and to be able to contribute to watch them – they were so adorable. It wasn’t standing in the sunshine at midnight and looking the environmental monitoring that Antarctica until we came back inside that I realised I only up to Erebus smoking on the horizon, carrying New Zealand was conducting made the had my jandals on – and I still had all of my out an environmental monitoring project on the experience even more valuable. toes, so it can’t have been too bad!’ Scholarships and Prizes Awarded Vice Chancellor’s Prize – $5000 Sir Edmund Hillary Scholarships The Vice Chancellor’s Prize for 2010 was awarded to students from the There were again high calibre students who applied to be on this programme. following schools: Central Hawkes Bay College, , Hamilton This year there are 40 new scholarships and 23 of those were awarded to Boys’ High School, Hastings Girls’ High School, Hillcrest High School, school leavers. The remainder were awarded to current students already at Kerikeri High School, Napier Girls’ High School, Rosehill College, Rotorua the University or to students who have transferred to the University and Lakes High School, Sacred Heart Girls’ College, St Paul’s Collegiate, have been accepted into the programme. Boys’ College, Te Aroha College, College, Waikato Diocesan Again, let your students know that they can apply once they have begun School for Girls. There were 18 prizes awarded from 99 nominations. their degree study and maybe have moved on further in their sport or Applications for the Vice-Chancellor’s Prize for 2011 will be due on Friday creative and performing arts. 6 August.

Alumni Association rewards students Important dates for The Alumni Association gave awards of $500 to each student who had the Careers Advisers highest grade point average in each School/Faculty in their first year at Waikato. These were given out during 2009 but you may be interested to 5 MARCH Teachers’ Update Day hear of the further success of some of your students. It is also important 30 APRIL Open Day on campus to let your students know that once they are at university there are many 10 MAY Law Student for a Day opportunities to apply for scholarships and awards. 13 JULY Law Student for a Day Joanna Clarke (Hillcrest High School), Oliver Hulse-Sangster (Thames 15 JULY Engineering Open Day on campus High School), Michelle Clark (Sacred Heart Girls’ College), Jasmine Van der Heyden (St Peter’s School), Ivan Schroder (Hillcrest High School), Andre 27 JULY Experience FASS (Arts and Social Sciences) Day Meister (Hamilton Boys’ High School), Hilary Max (Otumoetai College), 29 JULY Auckland Information Evening Henareata Rangiuaia (Te Kura Kaupapa Māori O te Waiu O Ngati Porou). 3 AUGUST Whakatane Information Evening School of Computing & Mathematical Sciences 5 AUGUST Rotorua Information Evening The School of Computing & Mathematical Sciences recognises its top 6 AUGUST Nominations for the Vice-Chancellor’s Prize due students at the end of the year with a Dean’s Award. The following students 11 AUGUST Gisborne Information Evening were each awarded $500 as they move into their second year: Brad Cowie 18 AUGUST Hawkes Bay Information Evening (Bethlehem College), Jared Lindsay (Hamilton’s Fraser High School), Ethan Duff and Tataihono Nikora (Hamilton Boys’ High School), Katrina de Lange 24 AUGUST Tauranga Information Evening and Michael Baumberger (Hillcrest High School), Paul Brown (Linwood 1 SEPTEMBER Teachers’ Update Day on campus College), Anthony Coddington and Steven McTanish (Otumoetai College) 20 SEPTEMBER Whangarei Information Evening and Saranna Drury (). 23 SEPTEMBER Experience FASS (Arts and Social Sciences) Day 28 SEPTEMBER Hamilton Information Evening New Papers 30 SEPTEMBER Law Student for a Day 1 OCTOBER Applications for halls due Events and Communication Management can be a 200 or 300 level paper. It can be one of the papers in a Management Communication 31 OCTOBER Applications for Sir Edmund Hillary major or students can choose it as an elective to complement Scholarship due subjects in other degrees. 1 DECEMBER Preferred date for applications to be received The paper will focus on best practice in event management from a from new students practical business perspective and there will be a particular focus on fundraising and sponsorship events. There is a practical component Contact us to the paper and students will research, design, plan, coordinate and Student Recruitment Office (Hamilton) evaluate an event as part of the assessment. Freephone: 0800 WAIKATO Ph: 07 838 4007 Email: [email protected] Fax: 07 838 4504 Introduction to Environmental Planning – this 100 level paper is an introductory paper which focuses on the philosophy, history and Student Recruitment Manager: Susan Law theories of planning to provide students with an overview of the Student Recruitment Advisers: nature and purpose of environmental planning. Courtney Mason, Liz Buick, Alonzo Mason, Carey Collier (Kaiwhakatō Whakaaro) Theatre Studies – the two 100 level papers now have a more New Zealand focus. Administrative Support: Karen de Ruyter THST101 – a practical/theory paper examining significant Group Manager, Student Recruitment and Enrolment: Clare Cramond mainstream theatre forms and styles through a study of plays Student Recruitment Adviser (Tauranga Office): produced by contemporary professional New Zealand theatre. Tammy-Lee Millard Ph: 07 544 0920 Extn: 6136 Email: [email protected] Fax: 07 577 5313 THST102 – a practical/theory paper examining contemporary theatre/performance which exists apart from the conventional theatre Student Recruitment Adviser (Auckland Office): of plays and players in the context of New Zealand community Shauna O’Malley Ph: 09 306 8914 Email: [email protected] Fax: 09 358 8118 practice, here and now.

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