Our
Term One AGM and meeting was hosted by Dairy NZ and we enjoyed presentations
from people involved in the Dairying, Meat and Wool and Horticulture
industries, as well as a lovely light meal. Our officeholders remained the same
as previous years.
Term
Two meeting was held at HillcrestHigh School's impressive new Careers
and Transition centre. No guest speakers were available so a general discussion
on STAR, Gateway and Careers issues was held.
Our
Term Three meeting was hosted by the University of Waikato School Support
Services in Hamilton. We had a guest speaker,
David Trought from FITEC, speaking to us about careers in the Forestry sector.
Saskia Osborne also updated us with a report from the ACER conference that she
attended in Australia. This meeting was held on
the day that Schools Plus was officially announced and launched so this was
also a subject for discussion!
WINTEC
hosted us for our Term Four meeting which has few members turn up as we chose
an evening when half of the Waikato was having their senior prizegivings!
WINTEC have some exciting new opportunities opening up for school students and
it was good to see what was available to us. Their new student hub is also
looking impressive!
Time
and lack of it continue to be major hurdles for Waikato CATE members in their
jobs and we are working hard with our schools to improve our positions in our
schools.
