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Never mind the sky, some stars are right here on earth. In fact, three go to Waitaki Girls’ High School. Year 9 pupils Cerys Thomas, Phoebe Wang and Johanna Schoneveld recently won the Nasa Scientist for a Day essay competition. Entering together, the 13-year-olds wrote the best three essays of any year 9 or 10 class in New Zealand. “It’s pretty amazing,” Cerys said. “It’s from the New Zealand Space Agency, and further back, Nasa. It’s just really shocking that we won.” For winning the competition, they received a mini AR/VR enhanced Uranus model for their school. They were asked to write about which of Uranus’ 27 moons they would send a spacecraft to and what they might find there, based on what was already known. ....
Rhiannon Thomas wants to become New Zealand’s first woman to launch a rocket into space. The 14-year-old Waitaki Girls’ High School pupil has big dreams to become the third woman in the world to achieve the feat, but said she would not be upset if someone else beat her to it. “Only two [women] have done it before and it’s all happened recently. It just shows not enough women are going into rocket science and engineering.” On Sunday, Rhiannon is speaking about why this might be the case as a panellist for the touring exhibition 100 Women, 100 Words .. Infinite Possibilities at Oamaru’s Forrester Gallery. ....
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Range Media Partners Signs Producer & Songwriter Justin Tranter Tranter is one of the most in-demand producers, songwriters and collaborators in music today, with over 50 million single sales.by TV News Desk Today Range Media Partners announces they will be representing Justin Tranter (they/them/their) in their myriad of entertainment pursuits. Tranter is one of the most in-demand producers, songwriters and collaborators in music today, with over 50 million single sales, 40 billion streams on Spotify and Youtube alone and dozens of honors including GRAMMY® and Golden Globes® nominations, 14 total BMI Pop Awards, and two consecutive Songwriter of the Year titles at the BMI Pop Awards. ....
The League of Canadian Poets has announced the winners of this year’s book awards. Bertrand Bickersteth is the winner of the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award for The Response of Weeds (NeWest Press). The $2,000 award is given annually to a debut book of poetry. In their citation, jurors DA Lockhart, Nisha Patel, and Phoebe Wang call the book, which explores what it means to be Black and Albertan, “a work of research of a stunning range, occupying a powerful space in Canadian poetry.” Noor Naga is the winner of the Pat Lowther Memorial Award for her debut novel-in-verse Washes, Prays (McClelland & Stewart), about a young woman’s affair with a married man and her crisis of faith that follows. The $2,000 award is open to Canadian women. In their citation, jurors Puneet Dutt, Doyali Islam, and Cassidy McFadzean describe Naga’s work as “technically flawless – and thus achingly full of what it means to be human.” ....