March 29
M & M's and a video camera were the resources used by Holly Woulfe, Chloe O'Shea and Brittany Smith-Frank when they entered the Freemasons BIG Science Adventures DVD compeition, a nationwide secondary school science contest run by the Royal Society of New Zealand. The theme was Darwin and evolution to mark the 150th anniversary of the Wallace-Darwin paper on natural selection.
Their entry resulted in a 10 day trip aboard the frigate Te Kaha, with 150 sailors and about 30 other people, including their teacher Mrs Margaret O'Donnell, to the Campbell, Auckland and Snare Islands.
The judges said that footage of the kereru was some of the best animal cinematography in the competition.
