Skills Bright Sparks

Check out this awesome, new, website game designed to make sure you know how to deal with phishing, scams and hackers. With levels to beat and achievements to make, this is a great way to learn the ways of the web and make sure you know how to safely browse. It's even good for parents to play! Check it out and share it around.

Interland Interland is an adventure-packed online game that puts the key lessons of digital citizenship and safety into hands-on practice. Play your way to being Internet Awesome.

Genius can be simple, all you need to do is solve a problem

To protect his parents, this 12-year-old invented a life-saving tool against COVID-19 | Beautiful News You wouldn't expect a 12-year-old to have created the ultimate survival tool for COVID-19. But that's exactly what Mizan Rupan-Tompkins did. After watching his parents touch surfaces with their sleeves to avoid contamination, the San Francisco local put his mind to innovating a solution. The result....

Past Bright Spark Winner Thomas James has won himself The Prime Minister’s 2019 Future Scientist Prize, with his Bright Sparks project - Wheelie Drive. THOMAS WE ARE SO PROUD! What an amazing accomplishment. We cant wait to see where this takes you!

"A robot that’s designed for elderly and people with disabilities to take wheelie bins to and from the kerb, has won 17-year-old Christchurch school student Thomas James the Prime Minister’s 2019 Future Scientist Prize. A year 13 student at Burnside High School, Thomas designed “Wheelie Drive” after noticing his elderly neighbour and grandparents struggled to use their wheelie bins."

2019 Prime Minister’s Science Prizes Announced The 2019 Prime Minister’s Science Prizes have been announced in a digital livestream event today. The Prizes recognise the impact of science on New Zealanders’ lives, celebrate the achievements of current scientists and encourage scientists of the ...

Wanting to learn something new while you’re at home in your bubble? Check out this amazing cut & paste feature that lets you take real-life objects and paste them into documents! It even comes with the code so you can try it yourself! If you do give it a go, tag us and we will share your post! Can’t wait to see it in action

Allie K. Miller on LinkedIn: #future #innovation #technology | 2212 comments A mind-blowing example of cut & paste - from the real world to Photoshop. Here’s the code: https://lnkd.in/eGiSKpt Created by Cyril Diagne. ... 2212 comments on LinkedIn

Due to recent events Skills Bright Sparks has made the decision to take a break this year in order to keep everyone safe and healthy. This was a tough decision but we feel it’s the best way forward right now.

The good news is this gives you another year to perfect your project! Self-isolation is a great time to pick up that old invention or start a new one! Let’s keep the creative juices flowing, & we look forward to seeing all your bright ideas in 2021.

If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to reach out.

Take care – The Bright Sparks Team.

"Yesterday was International Day of Women and Girls in Science.
Have a read of this article about women in the engineering faculty at UoA, our experiences, and hopes for the future of STEM"

Celebrating the International Day of Women and Girls in Science - The University of Auckland

Kea Kids News gave our Skills Bright Sparkers a special visit on awards day! Check out their fantastic coverage below

KEA Kids News: Aotearoa's Bright Sparks inventors Watch: The best inventions from some of the top young minds in the country - including a robotic back scratcher.

What an awesome day celebrating our wonderful Skills Bright Sparks finalists!

Will Waters, a finalist in our competition this year, created a chatbot to help anxiety sufferers.

We think this is such a clever, thoughtful idea, and something that could make a real difference in peoples lives.

Take a look at this piece from SunLive to read more 😊

SunLive - Tauranga teen designs bot for anxiety sufferers - The Bay's News First  The grip of anxiety was so strong for Will Waters he would get to bottom of the stairs in the morning and be unable...