St Thomas of Canterbury - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz Catholic News New Zealand Mon, 06 Oct 2014 01:54:43 +0000 en-NZ hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 https://cathnews.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cropped-cathnewsfavicon-32x32.jpg St Thomas of Canterbury - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz 32 32 70145804 St Thomas's students want a voice for the voiceless https://cathnews.co.nz/2014/10/10/st-thomas-students-want-voice-voiceless/ Thu, 09 Oct 2014 18:02:43 +0000 http://cathnews.co.nz/?p=64047

A group of students from St Thomas of Canterbury College high school in Christchurch who created a detailed report on young people in custody in New Zealand say they wanted to be a voice for the voiceless. The six students from St Thomas of Canterbury College have produced a 40 page report based on data Read more

St Thomas's students want a voice for the voiceless... Read more]]> A group of students from St Thomas of Canterbury College high school in Christchurch who created a detailed report on young people in custody in New Zealand say they wanted to be a voice for the voiceless.

The six students from St Thomas of Canterbury College have produced a 40 page report based on data they obtained from Government agencies through the Official Information Act.

The group found that youth justice facilities had:

  • High reconviction rates
  • More than half of the young people apprehended for imprisonable offences were Maori
  • 69 percent of under 20s who are incarcerated are reconvicted
  • 45 percent end up back in prison

The project leader, 18-year-old Lincoln Harrison, said the group aimed to shed light on the issue of youth in custody.

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St Thomas's students want a voice for the voiceless]]> 64047 Success for students' emergency power generator https://cathnews.co.nz/2011/09/02/success-for-students%e2%80%99-emergency-power-generator/ Thu, 01 Sep 2011 19:30:15 +0000 http://cathnews.co.nz/?p=10474 St Thomas' Young Enterprise group

Earlier this month six students from St Thomas of Canterbury College in Christchurch were joined by former Prime Minister Helen Clark to launch their ‘Lion Emergency Power Generator'. Since then, the product has sold out at Mitre 10 and yesterday a national organisation ordered one for each of its offices around the country. The project Read more

Success for students' emergency power generator... Read more]]> Earlier this month six students from St Thomas of Canterbury College in Christchurch were joined by former Prime Minister Helen Clark to launch their ‘Lion Emergency Power Generator'. Since then, the product has sold out at Mitre 10 and yesterday a national organisation ordered one for each of its offices around the country.

The project was part of the Lion Foundation's Young Enterprise Scheme, which the College has been involved in for around 10 years. Participation is voluntary and profits and any prize money is donated back to the community.

Their creation is a sustainable heat transfer device which works by generating electricity from waste heat. It powers lights, radios and cell phones.

They also wanted to create a product which would assist the global community, and sent one of their generators, along with a solar panel, to a village in Arusha, Tanzania.

Year 12 St Thomas of Canterbury student Craig Stanton said, "From a simple vision of making a difference to two communities, our own and a global community, we six school students have made a difference. We have assisted our neighbours and also a community in Tanzania 13 000 km away".

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