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10 Tuesday July 24 2018 Latest Christchurch news at www.star.kiwi NOR’WEST NEWS Global recognition for Burnside student SCHOOLS • By Sophie Cornish BURNSIDE HIGH student E Wen Wong continues to show her talents to the world, finishing fifth at the Future Problem Solving world championships in the United States. When she saw her result at the championships in Wisconsin, she got a “complete shock”. “It took me a while to comprehend,” she said. E Wen previously competed in the competition in 2016, finishing sixth. She said this year’s competition was more challenging. When E Wen returned from the championships last month, she started up a community problem-solving group at her school. She is training a group of year 9 students so they can qualify for the national competition HAPPY RESULT: E Wen Wong said she was in “complete shock” when she heard she had finished fifth at the Future Problem Solving world championships. next year. The year 11 student is familiar with international relations, recently attending a New Zealand Model United Nations event in Wellington. The event involved four days of workshops, debates, guest speakers and a taste of life as a diplomat. E Wen is in her second year as one of 10 UN youth high school ambassadors for the Canterbury region. However, her talents aren’t just limited to competitions and conferences. Earlier this year she started designing a robot to detect plastic in beaches, rivers and the ocean. She has received support from experts at NIWA, ThisDesign and Limitless who have shown AWARDS: E Wen Wong on stage at the closing ceremony in the United States. interest in the project. The robot is called BIRD – which stands for Biomimicry Identification Robot Device – and is also shaped like a bird. The plastic can be tagged and linked to a crowd-sourced clean-up app that guides rubbish collectors to dispose of it. E Wen has been working on the designs for her robot through the advocacy organisation she set up at school, P.S Our Beaches, which is spreading awareness about the environment and climate change. After school, she wants to attend university and study a combination of subjects she is passionate about, including meteorology, international law and environmental law. Allenvale School knits together to help newborn babies ALLENVALE School students are doing their part for the community – helping newborn babies stay warm. Members of the student council visited Christchurch Hospital’s neonatal unit recently with a basket of knitted clothing. More than 100 booties, hats and tops were knitted by staff members and donated. Assistant principal Linda King said students were required to gather the knitting and take it to the hospital as part of their community work. “It teaches the students one of our values of generosity. It teaches them that there’s always other people out there who need a hand and some help.” Allenvale is a special school in Bryndwr which caters for 120 young people with disabilities. DELIVERY: Allenvale School students Emelia Guthrie, Andy Chen, Harrison Stevens, and Wiremu Manahi helped deliver the knitted items to Christchurch Hospital’s neonatal unit. ADVERTISEMENT
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