Combat climate change contest

Students and innovators with creative ideas to combat climate change can win prizes up to $25,000 in a new competition.

The “Space for Planet Earth Challenge” is inviting students and innovators from New Zealand, Australia, the Philippines, and the Pacific Islands to participate. The Challenge seeks innovative ideas to combat climate change in the region. The competition is open to two categories: high school level and university/ start-up level.

Auckland based organiser SpaceBase is calling applicants to specifically use satellite data, in combination with other data sources, to help develop scientific methods to identify target areas of methane emissions around the world.

“SpaceBase leverages incentive prizes and space-based technologies to solve grand challenges on Earth”, says CEO and co-founder Emeline Paat-Dahlstrom.

“We hope the solutions created will further R&D [research and development] as well as spark products and services in the realm of methane identification and monitoring in the region.”

Methane contributes about a third of global warming worldwide and traps heat 25 times more than CO2.

Qualified teams will be invited to participate in a three month incubator programme that will include learning about remote sensing and data analysis, as well as design thinking and prototyping.

Shortlisted teams after the incubator

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Teacher Aide Position will be invited to pitch their ideas during the final event hosted in Auckland in March 2024.

The grand prize winners and finalists will win cash prizes up to $25,000 NZD, mentorships, and more. Proposals to participate in the incubator programme can be submitted online until 31 August. Full challenge applications are due 25 February 2024.

The challenge is sponsored through organisations like K1W1 Ventures, Callaghan Innovations, and the Auckland Space Institute.

For more information on submitting a proposal and other details, go to: https://spacebase.co/challenges/ space-challenge-2023or contact info@ spacebase.co

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Wanted patient, sensitive and caring people to support students with special social, emotional, physical and learning needs. Need to be calm, fair, consistently follow guidelines and be interested in working with children from 5-11 year olds. You will support students with routines, learning tasks and making good choices for their learning/behaviour in the classroom and playground. May involve assistance with toileting and administration tasks at times.

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Current positions are for supporting students with English as their second language, class/playground or learning and behaviour support.

Please note the following special requirement of this position:

Due to the vulnerability of some of our students, our Board is insistent on the successful applicant being double vaccinated against Covid-19, including booster (with willingness to adhere to any future vaccination requirements). To apply for this position we will request that you are willing to share your vaccination information.

The hourly pay rate will be based on experience for the role.

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