Southern View: December 05, 2017
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SOUTHERN VIEW Latest Christchurch news at www.star.kiwi<br />
Tuesday <strong>December</strong> 5 <strong>2017</strong> 9<br />
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CLEAN GREEN: Chanelle Quata from Avonside Girls’ High School drove an electric vehicle she<br />
helped design in the Evolocity finals.<br />
PHOTO: AARON CAMPBELL <br />
Student takes track on<br />
with electric vehicle<br />
CHANELLE QUATA was<br />
behind the steering wheel of an<br />
electric vehicle she helped design<br />
during the weekend’s national<br />
Evolocity competition.<br />
From bicycles to cars, the<br />
Avonside Girls’ High School<br />
student was among the more<br />
than 100 teams from around the<br />
country who were tasked with<br />
designing vehicles that had one<br />
thing in common – they were<br />
powered by electricity.<br />
Students were given an electrical<br />
kit and a few tutoring lessons<br />
from Evolocity experts but then<br />
they were left to design and build<br />
on their own.<br />
The vehicles were then put to<br />
the test and raced around a track<br />
at the Christchurch Agricultural<br />
Park on Saturday - judges gave<br />
points for speed, innovation and<br />
creativity.<br />
The winners will be announced<br />
on the Evolocity website,<br />
www.evolocity.co.nz.<br />
CONTROL: St<br />
Anne’s pupils<br />
Charlotte<br />
Pender, Rachel<br />
Tauanu’u and<br />
Austin Cherry<br />
are ready to<br />
control rat<br />
populations<br />
along the<br />
Heathcote<br />
River.<br />
St Anne’s pupils plan<br />
pest-free riverside<br />
ST ANNE’S Catholic School<br />
plans to control rats along the<br />
Heathcote in a bid to increase the<br />
whitebait population.<br />
It has become one of 10 schools<br />
from around the country to<br />
receive a grant to becoming a<br />
predator-free school.<br />
The award, given out by<br />
Kiwibank, came with a $1000<br />
grant to purchase traps and other<br />
equipment needed to manage<br />
pests in the area and a partnership<br />
with Predator Free New<br />
Zealand for expertise.<br />
More than 70 schools applied<br />
for the funding and St Anne’s<br />
was the only one from the city to<br />
win.<br />
One of the pupils made a rat<br />
trap box with her father, which<br />
PEST: Charlotte Pender and<br />
Hollie Parker with a rat they<br />
caught.<br />
caught a rat on its first night in<br />
Steam Wharf Stream and the<br />
school has purchased a trap that<br />
humanely kills pests.
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