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2 WEEKS TO GET YOUR ENTRIES IN!Thanks to all who entered the INTERFACE Minecraft Competition 2022. There were impressive creations as you came up with some awesome ideas to ‘Build a Better Future’. Judging was tough. Decisions are in. The winners of this year’s student competitions are …

1st Zero, Loki Che, Our Lady of the Sacred Heart School, Auckland 2nd The Eco Cube, Leo Sweeney, Logan Walker, Thomas Rankin and Tom Reed, Paparoa Street School, Christchurch

=3rd

Sustainable Countryside Village, Alisa Wong, Sienna Moreland and Esta Lene, Parkview Pa -rua School, Christchurch Eco Friendly, Christine Keller, Elizabeth Saunders and Jessica Mann, Samuel Marsden Collegiate School, Wellington

Honourable mentions:

Sustainable Farm, Cerys Flye, Pegasus Bay School, Canterbury Eco Village, Evan Meng, Murrays Bay School, Auckland Clean Water, Cooper Gordon, Papakura Central School, Auckland

1st Renewable Island, Angus Grayson, Xavier Smith, and Aidan Connell, Rosmini College, Auckland = 2nd

Kaitiakitanga, Hunter Hormann, Alex Brown, Tyler Maley, and Ashton Lamont, Ashburton Intermediate, Canterbury Kirikiriroa’s Futuristic Enviro School, Kayla Bryant, Angelina Wang, Jisun Park, and Sofya Kabalinskaya, Fairfield Intermediate School, Hamilton 3rd Eco Street, Sierra Hargreaves, Westland High School, Hokitika

Honourable mentions:

Saving the Kauri Trees, Monique Whyte, Amelie Gaiger, Zahra Arnold and Megan Pratt, Morrinsville Intermediate School, Waikato Solar Turbo Boost, Leodin Joblin-Mills, Bruce McGregor and Ethan Wells, Whanganui Intermediate, Manawatu --Whanganui The Enviro Village, Nilanjan Vyas and Rudra Chakrabarti, Scott Point School, Auckland

1st Turtles and Trash, Tahi Davies, Thomas Williams and Andrew Williams, Burnside High School, Christchurch 2nd Gen-NEO, Deven Battish, Rowan Milnor and Samit Ram Swayambhatla, Auckland International College, Auckland 3rd Underground Farm, Ben Hosie, Mathias Kirwan, Braidyn Taitapanui, and Anika Illingworth, Mana College, Porirua

Honourable mentions:

Futuristic Bunker, Zaden Thompson, Papanui High School, Christchurch

Automatic Wheat Farm, AJ Douglas, Northern Health School, Waikato South Unit

Congratulations to all our winners. As well as bragging rights as the best Minecrafters in the country, each category winner receives a #StikBot Zanimation Studio, and placings also receive some Minecraft goodies! We received a record number of entries this year and the standard was extremely high. Well done to everyone who participated. We can’t wait to see what you do in next year’s competition.

Intermediate (Years 7-8) Winner

Secondary (Years 9+) Winner

Find out the results of this category on page 8.

2 Meet the winners of the INTERFACE

Minecraft Competitions 2022

8 INTERFACE News and Views

10 Noticeboard

12 ETV: Free access to videos and resources for all teachers in Term 3

12 How to claim your school’s Google Maps listing

13 The Mind Lab: New course at Tech

Futures Lab aims to demystify software development

14 Search out your librarians for all the best places online In our May issue, we investigated ways to search online for information. But did we miss something?

Rangi Ruru Girls’ School’s Isabel Milward thought so and contacted us to highlight an additional helping hand that’s always available.

16 Pathway leads to all students learning at the same level For the last three years,

Timaru Kāhui Ako has been developing coherent pathways of the Digital Technology curriculum to ensure all students enter high school with the same level of digital skills. Now it’s sharing this resource with all schools.

18 How ready is your school to defend against cyber attacks? Phishing. Viruses. Malware.

Ransomware. Schools face multiple, ongoing threats to their digital security and safety – and attacks are escalating. What can you do to protect yourself? How can you minimise the risk? INTERFACE investigates.

• Assessing and managing the digital security risks facing your school • What are the most prevalent types of cyber threats that schools are facing?

• Cyber security training and webinars

• There are five easy ways to help educate students about online safety

• Learning about ciphers, passwords, breaking into websites, locking picking, and much more

23 Barcode scanning system keeps track of students Forget roll call. An innovative attendance scheme at a Queenstown school is using barcodes to record student presence during a specialist tech class.

24 Creating a new Scott Base, one Minecraft block at a time Excitement is building in Timaru as construction work is set to begin on the $344million Scott Base

Redevelopment Rebuild. And that proved the foundation to a virtual initiative for hundreds of local students to create the base in Minecraft.

27 Using smartphones could help improve memory skills

28 Building skills and knowledge in new esports contest Ready, set … students became digital athletes to be quick off the blocks in a new, speed building competition.

Last month, teams from Christchurch schools battled it out in an esports challenge to make in Minecraft a waka hourua, the traditional double-hulled canoe of Polynesian explorers.

30 File Share: Four pages of online resources

34 Competitions: Heaps of great prizes to be won!