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Find out more about the Mana Tangata youth leadership programme here.

Sign up as a rangatahi / participant here for the 21/22 cohort

Sign up as a Kaiārahi / mentor here for the 21/22 cohort

Find out about the Ciena Fund here for access to skinny jump for students free.

The Spark Foundation has partnered with Ciena to offer a fund to selected Decile 1 high schools, to offer free home broadband connections to students. The fund is only available to an initial group of Auckland schools. These are:

• Manurewa High School in South Auckland

• Mangere College in South Auckland

• James Cook High in South Auckland

Spark Foundation has partnered with a collective of organisations to get Devices to students with RAD. Find about Recycle a Device and getting your school involved here

Contact Spark Foundation if you are interested in joining them on a trip to Digital Natives Academy to check out their eSports set up on sparkfoundation@spark.co.nz

National Schools' Agreement with the Ministry of Education

M365 tools such as Teams, OneNote, Forms are available for free for all state and state-integrated schools.

Esports

We have a teacher short course to learn about how to marry passion with educational purpose in the classroom, visit here.

Ngā Motu

Through NSA above, Minecraft Education Edition is available for free for all state and state-integrated schools. To explore Ngā Motu, visit here.

Tech for Good

Get started by visiting this link to watch pre-recorded videos and register for the live webinar series where the Microsoft team will go deeper into each topic to support you in your Tech for Good challenge project. You can also check out this one hour short course to learn more about the Tech for Good programme and how technology be leveraged to promote student engagement in service learning.

Imagine Cup Junior

The Imagine Cup Junior competition kicks off in January 2022 and runs until March 2022. We are working on localising it to the New Zealand curriculum.

Check out last year’s competition here.

Digital Civility

Check out our Digital Safety Challenge to support conversations with your ākonga about promoting respect and kindness online, visit here.

Skilling for All

Learn relevant skills for jobs in-demand. With our Global Skilling Initiative, you can start developing your skills for free with learning paths from LinkedIn Learning and Microsoft Learn, then practice tech skills in the GitHub Learning Lab.Check out our Global Skilling Initiative for Students here to learn about the future of work, how to acquire future-ready skills, how to get certified and how to ensure you stand out to a prospective employer. These free learning pathways are available until 31st December 2021.

Workplace Experiences

We would love to open our doors for workplace experiences to groups of rangatahi who want some hands-on experiences at Microsoft HQ. Please reach out to kronawetterl@microsoft.com and v-celynch@microsoft.com if you and your students would be keen on exploring this together.

Hikohiko te Uira:

Three free training pathways, Digital Essentials, Cloud Fundamentals, Data Analyst.

Great pathways to develop IT skills, with Digital Essentials also having a focus on soft skills.

Not for Profit offerings:

For any NFP’s or Charities, please check out our free and discounted licensing offerings.

Lydia Kronawetter

Primary and Secondary Education Lead

kronawetterl@microsoft.com

Cecilia Lynch

Philanthropies Lead

v-celynch@microsoft.com

Microsoft Aotearoa

Connect with Moana Digital solutions here

Find out about People for People and the Vaka Experience

STEMM Programme

A long term pipeline to support Māori STEMM engagement and success from secondary school, through tertiary and into employment. The first phase of the kaupapa works collaboratively with schools to improve Māori student access to STEMM education. This programme involves a network of Kaihautū (navigators) who work directly with rangatahi both within school settings (weekly) and through termly one day experiential learning wānanga which are based at a local tertiary partner.

Pūhoro supports rangatahi across two critical transition points (secondary - tertiary; tertiary - employment) but including an array of supports and mentoring including industry supported endorsed microcredentials. The overarching outcome is to, through strategic partnerships, provide opportunities for rangatahi to pathway into high value careers in STEMM.

We currently operate in 10 South Auckland schools and keen to expand to support more schools, or connect with more staff within existing schools.

Engineering Young Māori Minds

The Engineering Young Māori Minds (EYMM) kaupapa seeks to provide one day hands on problem solving wānanga within the context of pūrākau and mātauranga-ā-iwi.

The following link explains more about the EYMM kaupapa from a partner and rangatahi perspective https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XZZ9xTz-NkA

We are keen to involve more schools in the EYMM kaupapa and interested to hear from schools who may be interested in participating in this one day annual event.

Really keen to partner with others across the network so explore potential ways we can collaborate for shared outcomes; learn from each other; and improve outcomes for our young people.

Naomi Manu

Puhoro STEM academy

Naomi Manu n.manu@puhoro.org.nz

Dontate to DigiTautua here

Find out about the TPK cadetships here

Opportunities for scholarships each include $1000 for school fees and specialised STEAM courses fees & $1000 hardware study package.

Secondary Schools Scholarships

Ministry for Pacific Peoples — Toloa Secondary School Scholarships (STEAM) (mpp.govt.nz)

Toloa Capability Provider Funding

Ministry for Pacific Peoples — Toloa Capability Fund (STEAM) (mpp.govt.nz)

Grace Iwashita_Taylor

MPP - Toloa Programme

grace.iwashita-taylor@mpp.govt.nz