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Industry benefits from student placements

Shift students have been putting their newly acquired skills to good use during their industry placements, providing organisations with tech solutions, while extending their own capabilities.

Xtend 2018 Success Stories!

Jamie Vaughan, Mark Oliver and Les Miskin with Prof Samuel Mann (right) celebrate their Graduation from Otago Polytechnic's Master of Professional Practice awarded on completion of SIGNAL's Xtend programme last week.

Hour of Code

Hour of Code is a global initiative to connect young people with coding so they can enjoy and understand their computer science rich surroundings. New Zealand schools have once again been involved, and you can be too.

Apply now for a SHIFT 2019 Scholarship

Do you need a financial hand to SHIFT to a tech career? SHIFT 2019 enrolments are open now for both Dunedin and Christchurch, and so are 2019 SHIFT scholarship applications.

Work Future Dunedin Event @ Petridish - Nov 7 - 5.30 - 7pm

A fantastic crowd attended a future-focussed discussion with four of Dunedin's tech community stars last night in Dunedin. Conclusion - the future looks bright!

ATTN TEACHERS: Educate 2019 Scholarships open for applications!

SIGNAL has already awarded some Educate Scholarships for 2019, but there are still several available. These scholarships will help teachers and schools access the professional development needed to deliver the Computer Science (Computational Thinking) aspects of the new Digital Technologies curriculum, and boost the capabilities of their fellow teaching team.

Industry Showcase highlights SHIFT employment outcomes for 2017 Christchurch cohort

Thanks and congratulations to Showcase presenters Harry Taylor, Felicia Sacramento and Sakinah Abdul – who have all secured industry employment following SHIFT!

Make a difference by taking part in Dunedin's first ImpactNPO Hackathon

Use your skills to help local charities as SIGNAL Dunedin hosts the first ImpactNPO Hackathon Nov 9 -11. This event is open to anyone with tech, marketing, communications, business or other skills that could make a difference to our local community. Interested? Read on for more info from ImpactNPO!

A Chat with Eteroa Lafaele... the dancing Comp Sci Grad' who took the Internet by storm!

Many graduands dream of making their 23 second capping walk a time to remember, but there are few who do it in as much style as Eteroa Lafaele. I recently had the pleasure of speaking to the vivacious Eteroa about her new found fame, her positive role model status and what inspires her everyday.

Don't miss the next Tech Careers and Pizza Night at a SIGNAL near you!

If you, or someone you know, is thinking about a change of career, or want to 'Add Tech to your Superpowers', come along to one of SIGNAL's famous Tech Careers and Pizza nights......

Research: Calling all Agile Companies

Are you a ground-breaking SME that is experimenting with new ways to think and do HR? Leonie Mollet, a PhD Student and HR professional would like to contact you for her thesis research.

AgritechNZ connects global interests and promotes NZ to the world.

NZ Agritech companies are making waves on the global stage, and have several opportunities to work alongside some of the world's largest food producers, who are investing heavily into robotics, sensing and automation. The potential economic benefits of this are tremendous as we discovered at the AgritechNZ roadshow which recently toured NZ.

Enthusiastic crowd at the AI Forum Connect event 'Artificial Intelligence in Dunedin: Research, industry, and public policy' at SIGNAL Dunedin.

Over 70 people attended the AI Forum Connect event in Dunedin last night to discuss the impact and deployment of AI in New Zealand.

ITx 2018

SIGNAL was proud to be a silver sponsor of ITx 2018, held in Wellington from July 11 to 13. This action packed programme was a collaboration of twelve leading tech-focused conferences and included over 150 speakers on many different tech related topics.

Shift Dunedin ready for Industry placements!

Do you have an idea for your business or organisation, but have had to park it? Could it be the start of a productive line of work? Perhaps some research, assessing, testing or user experience design project that will potentially add to your bottom line? The 2018 SHIFT cohort will soon be starting their 200 hour Industry Project work with local organisations, and we are calling for projects in Dunedin.

SIGNAL welcomes new staff to Christchurch and Dunedin offices

We are excited to introduce Lufei Wang (Christchurch), and Stephen Geddes (Dunedin) to the SIGNAL team.

SIGNAL's VR Arena an "Unreal Success" at NZ Scifest

SIGNAL Dunedin welcomed over five hundred and fifty people into the SIGNAL VR Arena, hosted by Dr Simon McCallum, who also gave a range of lunchtime VR talks as part of the NZ International SciFest in Dunedin from July 6 - 15.

SHIFT Industry Showcase - Christchurch Sep 20

Join us as we celebrate the achievements of the first Christchurch SHIFT cohort, on Thursday Sep 20 from 3 - 4.30pm.

The Future of Learning Conference 2018

Bring the change! Amazing ripples happen when you bring open minded, game changers and action takers together to share ideas. SIGNAL was a proud partner and sponsor for THE FUTURE OF LEARNING Conference, held in July 2018, Ōtautahi, Christchurch.

Action time! Putting the learning into action in the 'Real World'

Exciting times ahead for the Christchurch SHIFT'ers starting on their Industry Projects. In this photo, left to right are Orbica's Banika Sirohi (Orbica Full Stack developer - mentor) and Antonin Caen (Orbica Geospatial Architect - mentor), with two members of the 2018 SHIFT cohort, Arthur McGregor & Kiriana Brown.