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NOR’WEST NEWS Latest Christchurch news at www.star.kiwi<br />
Tuesday <strong>June</strong> <strong>25</strong> <strong>2019</strong> 15<br />
Rangi Ruru journo gets big break<br />
MEG ROBERTS says she “would<br />
travel anywhere” to follow her<br />
dream of becoming a reporter.<br />
The 17-year-old year 13 Rangi<br />
Ruru student will head off to the<br />
United States next month. She is<br />
the only New Zealand student to<br />
be accepted into the prestigious<br />
Summer Journalism Institute<br />
programme at Boston University.<br />
“It still doesn’t feel real, I don’t<br />
think it’s sunk in yet,” she said.<br />
Foreign affairs and<br />
international relations are<br />
Meg’s passions and television<br />
journalism is the area in which<br />
she is keen to work, but she’s<br />
excited to learn about all media.<br />
She also plans to learn Arabic<br />
as the Middle East is a dynamic<br />
place for news reporting.<br />
“There are no limitations as<br />
far as where I would be prepared<br />
to go – North Korea, Yemen,<br />
anywhere. I’ve always been a<br />
person who loves to explore<br />
the world and the depth and<br />
meaning behind it. I think<br />
journalism is informative yet<br />
creative; a perfect combination<br />
of subjective or objective,” she<br />
said.<br />
“I love to see things as they<br />
happen. I really enjoy watching<br />
Al Jazeera and the BBC because<br />
of the international news they<br />
give us. There are lots of things<br />
we don’t hear about here and I<br />
would love to report on stories<br />
that are important and not<br />
always seen,” she said.<br />
Careers adviser Kristen Fox<br />
said the Summer Journalism<br />
Institute programme is run<br />
by the New England Centre<br />
for Investigative Reporting for<br />
students from around the world,<br />
aged 14-18, and this year is its<br />
10th anniversary.<br />
Students who get accepted<br />
work alongside an instructor<br />
who is a working journalist.<br />
BOSTON<br />
BOUND:<br />
Meg<br />
Roberts will<br />
attend the<br />
prestigious<br />
Summer<br />
Journalism<br />
Institute<br />
at Boston<br />
University in<br />
July for two<br />
weeks, then<br />
return home<br />
to New<br />
Zealand to<br />
complete<br />
her year 13<br />
at Rangi<br />
Ruru.<br />
Each lesson is tied to a<br />
practical journalism skill,<br />
with all students gaining<br />
real-life reporting experience<br />
on assignments, both at the<br />
university and across Boston.<br />
“Every day they have five<br />
sessions where they go over the<br />
fundamental skills needed in<br />
a university class format. They<br />
SCHOOLS<br />
write for broadcast and web, and<br />
it’s very heavy on ethics, which is<br />
pleasing,” Ms Fox said.<br />
After the classes, the students<br />
move into a new session, which<br />
is like a newsroom, where they<br />
are divided into news teams with<br />
each headed by a journalist who<br />
is their editor.<br />
The students cover city<br />
council meetings, sports<br />
events and police reporting.<br />
Then all their work goes into a<br />
portfolio.<br />
Ms Fox said having this<br />
real-life experience and the<br />
work they produce is a fantastic<br />
springboard for students.<br />
“For Meg or any student,<br />
having a professional portfolio<br />
is crucial for applications from<br />
high school. It’s great having<br />
a passion for journalism and<br />
when you combine that with<br />
experience, it can create a<br />
significant advantage for<br />
students.<br />
“Universities are going to<br />
look favourably at students<br />
who do this additional work<br />
– having practical, tangible<br />
examples of work is invaluable,”<br />
she said.<br />
Meg will attend Boston<br />
University in July for two<br />
weeks, then return home to<br />
Christchurch to complete her<br />
year 13 studies.<br />
Cotswold pupil<br />
to see how tech<br />
companies work<br />
A FUTURE in the tech industry<br />
may be on the cards for year<br />
6 Cotswold School pupil Juno<br />
Rainey.<br />
The Tech Life Project - an<br />
initiative from Christchurch<br />
company Global<br />
Office – is sponsoring<br />
five year<br />
6 girls to travel<br />
to Wellington to<br />
learn more about<br />
a career in technology<br />
at Trade<br />
Me and Xero’s<br />
Juno Rainey<br />
head offices.<br />
Juno, who joined Code Club<br />
Aotearoa in year 4, is keen to<br />
explore her options when she<br />
tours the offices next month.<br />
“I love coding and programming<br />
and am excited to learn<br />
about new things on the trip,”<br />
she said.<br />
Juno’s father Scott Rainey said<br />
he hopes Juno will learn that<br />
there is a “world of opportunities<br />
out there.”<br />
“Women add significant value<br />
to the tech industry,” he said.<br />
Global Office director Chris<br />
Tacon said he wants to see more<br />
diversity in the industry, noting<br />
that women are currently<br />
greatly underrepresented.<br />
A 2018 report from the<br />
Ministry of Women found<br />
only 23 per cent of Kiwis<br />
employed in digital technology<br />
were women.<br />
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