At the Grow Waitahi Digi Awards evening...

A group of students from The Red Zone group attend the awards evening at St Margaret's college.

They got first place in the open category, Year 3 & 4, for The Red Zone.

The Red Zone also got 2nd place in the MADE AWARDS, Year 4-6 Interface Documentary category, 2019 and won the Jenny Griggs Creativity award.

A group of students who created the game for the BeeBots called 'Wero Putiputi' got 3rd Place in the MADE Awards, Year 7&8 Interface Documentary category, 2019.

The Red Zone

This is the completed full-length movie 'The Red Zone.'  It shows the process the Ōtautahi Crafters undertook to innovate some spaces in the red zone, Christchurch, Ōtautahi.

This took a couple of months to complete and a few weeks to collate everything into a movie.

Students have blogged about their experience, check out their blogs below:

Cylis

Rocky 

Jessica

Malachi

Jazmin

Everley

Noah

Lachie

George

Charlie

Elliot

Riley

Addison

Connor

Jed

Mason

Hunter R

Digi Awards 2019

A group of students from the Ōtautahi Crafters attended the Grow Waitaha Digi Awards 2019 Celebration Ceremony last Wednesday.

To their suprise they won the Year 3 & 4 Open Category with their entry 'The Red Zone.'

Watch our 3 minute entry into the Digi Awards 2019...

Students have blogged about their experience, check out their blogs below:

Cylis

Rocky 

Jessica

Malachi

Jazmin

Everley

Noah

Lachie

George

Charlie

Elliot

Riley

Addison

Connor

Jed

Mason

Hunter R

Ōtautahi Crafters - Outdoor Area

If you thought the wetland area would be a nice place to visit wait until you see the outdoor area!

This is full of things to get you fit and healthy.  There's even a dog park...

Students worked in groups to create this area.  To build the wetland area and outdoor area it took about 2 months.  Some parts were challenging to build, like the skate park.  We had some very talented Minecrafters that gave up their lunch time to get this area finished.

Ōtautahi Crafters - Wetlands

The Wetlands area the Ōtautahi Crafters built is one of my favourite places.  If it came to life I think I would visit this place every weekend.  I love the native bird sculptures.  Imagine walking through the Wetlands and seeing large sculptures of a pukeko, a fantail and kiwi.

I think the birds would love this area!

This took a lot of time to craft and a lot of work on the ground had to be done.

Innovate The Red Zone..Idead & Planning

In Term 3 an enthusiastic bunch of Year 3 students embarked on the challenge to innovate Ōtautahi.

After the earthquakes a lot of houses were knocked down.  Learning about what had happened and sharing photos made this group feel sad.  The land couldn't be remediated and this land is now known as the red zone.

Ōtautahi Crafters embarked on a journey to investigate what could happen to some parts of the red zone.

They talked to students at school and looked at the different ideas people have suggested for this space Ōtākaro Avon River Regeneration Plan.

They spoke to students at school and attempted to create a list of 100 things that could happen in the red zone.

All ideas were discussed and placed into three lists, Yes, No & Maybe.  This was challenging and the the students had to really think what would make the red zone a better place for everyone.

After this they decided to create an Outdoor Area and a Wetlands are in the red zone.