Auckland Airport Runway Gets Shorter

RIght now Auckland's runway is getting shortened by a kilometer  but is still in use. On Sunday night The workers started to get to work on the runway trying to fix the the panels in the touchdown area which were damaged before.


Before repairing the runway they got a lot of criticism because of that for the last 12 months. They need 280 slabs of concrete to fix the runway. They planned it later on in the year but the drop in air traffic because of lock down made them start early.

2nd Week Of Tech

On the 2nd week back at tech we were taught about the different types of plastic. We learnt the different types of plastic that are Reusable plastic and One use of plastic.

We were also learnt that having Biodegradable plastic is actually pretty good to use. There is also so many different types of plastic out there. One of them being  high density polyethylene, which is just milk containers and any other type of bottle.  This type of plastic is called HDPE.

2nd Rotation Of Tech 2020

Today we swapped groups and now I am in the group called steam.

the definition of steam is, Science, technology,  engineering and mathematics.
We Learnt about the sea by watching marine biologist. The First lesson of steam is was exciting. 
 

Back At School

After a long 2 months of lock down, we finally back at school. It was fun at first in the morning but then as the day went on we all kinda got back into our normal routine. First day back was a solid 7 out of 10.

It did take a while to get to school because of the traffic. It is different though because of  covid-19 im still hoping to have good year.

First Kiwifruit harvest of 2020 sent to japan

The very first shipment of kiwi fruit s now being sent to japan.

The shipment is scheduled to reach Tokyo in March.

The ship also when to Gisborne to pick up over 330,000 trays of sungold Kiwifruit

New Zealand Shut Down

By tomorrow on Wednesday the 24 of March, all of the stores and schools will be shut down.

They are all going into shut down because of  covid-19.  Jacinda Ardern said "we are at level 3" and said they are going to level 4 in 48 hours. The duration of the shut down is 4 weeks. In that time she hopes nobody will get infected.

Hope all of you stay safe, and make sure you keep your hands clean.

Drones vs Pest

The Department of conservation has set up drones to fight off pest.

The drones cost 750k  and is a key step for New Zealand predator free by 2050.
Drones have a very high rate to get rid of pest so this is one of their choices they made to get rid of pest.