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Speaker 1: Amy Honeywell is the coordinator of the new or Pocky

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Speaker 1: Innovation Hub. Morning to you, Good morning.

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Speaker 2: Look.

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Speaker 1: So for listeners who haven't heard much about this yet,

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Speaker 1: what exactly is the or Pocky Innovation Hub.

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Speaker 2: The all Pooky Innovation Hub is a community driven project.

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Speaker 2: Our mission is to develop a hands on, future focused

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Speaker 2: curriculum that gives students real world schools in agriculture and

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Speaker 2: the trades industries.

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Speaker 1: It's a solid mission statement. So this is a new Physically,

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Speaker 1: I'm seeing the building that's cropping up on the campus

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Speaker 1: of Mounthart College. You can see it's sort of on

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Speaker 1: the main drive as you're coming into the township there.

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Speaker 1: But it's not a mount Hart College sort of solely

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Speaker 1: focused thing, right.

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Speaker 2: Well, it is. It is. It's for our students at

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Speaker 2: mounth Hart College. It is a board owned building and

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Speaker 2: board a school a school project, not a ministry owned building. Therefore,

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Speaker 2: consequently we have to fund.

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Speaker 1: That ourselves, right So that's where the community ownership piece

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Speaker 1: comes in.

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Speaker 2: Yes, absolutely, and it is very much a community project.

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Speaker 2: It was driven and the initial it was it was

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Speaker 2: kicked off from a community need wanting us to strengthen

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Speaker 2: Agriculture and Trades provisions to want.

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Speaker 1: To ask about that, Yes, what what need is this filling?

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Speaker 2: So there is a real skills gap in mid Canterbury

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Speaker 2: where a thriving agriculture sector, the biggest area in New Zealand.

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Speaker 2: And so therefore when we're really wanting to fill that

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Speaker 2: gap and help industries having by having skilled the skilled

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Speaker 2: workforce when they leave, when they leave skill.

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Speaker 1: So are student's already starting to use the space this term?

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Speaker 2: So our trades program began last year with year eleven students.

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Speaker 2: This year we have yet elevens and twelve and later

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Speaker 2: this term they will be in the new facility. We've

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Speaker 2: been very fortunate with support to develop our outdoor agriculture

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Speaker 2: area and that's up and running. The internal fit out

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Speaker 2: of the agriculture classroom, however, will have to come as

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Speaker 2: we get money. We're a little bit short at this stage.

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Speaker 2: We've had huge support. We've got one hundred and eighty

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Speaker 2: thousand dollars to go and we're hoping that mid to

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Speaker 2: late probably around midyear, the whole facility will be operational.

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Speaker 1: Which would be wonderful. That sounds like a lot of money,

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Speaker 1: but it's a one point one million dollar project. So

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Speaker 1: we're pretty much there.

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Speaker 2: We are, We're so close. We've just got the final post.

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Speaker 2: We've just got the last little phase to get across

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Speaker 2: the line. We've had massive support. The board of trustees

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Speaker 2: have invested a significant amount of money, approximately half of

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Speaker 2: it and the rest of it is from the industry organizations.

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Speaker 1: A Party in the Paddock in the Paris Incristies.

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Speaker 2: Absolutely, the Line Foundation, the Mackenzie Charitabout Charitable Foundation have

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Speaker 2: been huge supporters. Advanced as Burden, meth and Lines. The list, Yeah,

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Speaker 2: the list goes on.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, right, So how do you hope to get the

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Speaker 1: rest of that money?

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Speaker 2: Well, we're seeking support from local businesses, agricultural businesses, the

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Speaker 2: trade sector that We've had a lot of people come

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Speaker 2: forward and pledge money on a personal level, people who

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Speaker 2: are passionate about helping our region thrive and developing a

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Speaker 2: skilled workforce for the future. Yeah neat.

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Speaker 1: So what will this all up you've kind of touched

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Speaker 1: on anyway, but in particular, you know, for the students,

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Speaker 1: what are you hoping to offer what's going to be

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Speaker 1: a measure of six excess once this thing is up

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Speaker 1: and running.

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Speaker 2: Well, our key focus is to develop a future focused,

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Speaker 2: innovative and hands on program. So we're looking at a

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Speaker 2: lot of innovations within the agricultural sector, the future of farming,

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Speaker 2: the way that the farming for the.

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Speaker 1: Future, running the robots that do the milk.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's about giving students a taster. It's a bit

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Speaker 2: like a tasting platter, a real wide variety of what

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Speaker 2: is out there, like you only know what you know

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Speaker 2: late having.

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Speaker 1: To go off campus too, because I mentioned a lot

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Speaker 1: of that's offered from the establishment.

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Speaker 2: Absolutely, very much industry lead, and the community is very

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Speaker 2: much part of this and they are very much behind it.

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Speaker 2: So it's about involving them as much as possible and

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Speaker 2: opening up as many opportunities, giving them a chance to

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Speaker 2: try as many different things, experience different things. Yeah, and.

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Speaker 1: Interest from students is pretty promising, Like they're all on board.

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Speaker 2: Absolutely. We have application process to get into this program,

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Speaker 2: and our applications have been really high. And as time

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Speaker 2: goes on and the building becomes completed too, there's more

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Speaker 2: and more interest.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, that's wonderful to see. So we can go to

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Speaker 1: keep tabs on the project or perhaps if we are

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Speaker 1: tiggled with the idea of supporting you.

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Speaker 2: Absolutely you can go to the school Facebook page or

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Speaker 2: our website is dub dub dub Mount Hutcollege dot co,

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Speaker 2: dot in Z. There's a small short video which gives

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Speaker 2: you a rundown of the project, and there's the information

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Speaker 2: where people can donate if they wish. My email is

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Speaker 2: honeywell A at Mount Hut dot School, dot in Z,

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Speaker 2: and I welcome any emails, questions anyone wants who wants

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Speaker 2: to talk through anything further