A shoe designed for barefoot running from Nicholas Couch, a 23 year old graduate from Massey University, has picked up the coveted  James Dyson Award  for emerging product design, at an award ceremony held in Auckland. The award celebrates, encourages & inspires the next generation of design talent in NZ.  

The People in Your Neighbourhood project is again happening in 2012, with a series of capacity building workshops and UK-NZ collaborations.
You can viewproject updates, as well as the documentary from PIYN 2009 and 2010 on the PIYN blog.

Linking Minds is an international award, giving outstanding young teachers the opportunity to travel to the United Kingdom on a fully-funded professional development programme. The programme will be available again in 2012.