IET New Zealand News Updates

26 April 2010 - New Zealand shines at the Vex World Championships in Dallas, Texas
IET New Zealand was a sponsor at this year's New Zealand's Vex Robotics competition.  The aim of the competition is "to inspire a passion for Science and Technology".   

Two Massey University teams made it through to the quarterfinals of the College (University) Championship.  The Albany Massey team reached the final and won the first of the best-of-three matches against a Chinese team. However, due to a mechanical fault, they ended up as finalists and couldn't retain their World Championship title from last year. 

In the High School section,16 NZ teams competed.  Those two teams, Free Range Robotics (Auckland Home Schoolers) and Kristin Doves (Kristin School), along with Team 1 of Shanghai Luwan Teenagers Activity Center, went on to win the Vex World Championship! Well done guys!

New Zealand teams also picked up a slew of awards, here is the list of their achievements:

2010 World Champions
2010 World Math Division Champions
2010 World Engineering Division Semifinalists 
2010 World Energy Award 
2010 World Amaze Award 
2010 World Web Design Award 
2010 World Promote Award Finalist

28 November 2009 - NZ wins at the IET Global PATW Competition
We would like to congratulate, Kip Cooper on winning 2009 Global Present Around The World (PATW) Competition. Kip represented Auckland LN at the South Pacific PATW competition held in Auckland in April this year and won the title.  As part of his prize package, Kip not only received a cheque, but sent to the UK to compete at the Global Final.  Well done, Kip!