Entry Recommendations: Open entry, NCEA Level 2 Textile Technology is an advantage. Students who have completed the Level 2 course will have priority entry. This course also allows students to enter for scholarship Technology.

Course Outline: This course addresses the requirements of the technology achievement standards through one project; ‘Designer of the Future’.  These skills are all developed around a brief that the student has written regarding a specific innovative materials based need and opportunity. The students will also write a report based on modelling techniques that they and other practitioners have used in their practise for their external assessment.

Skills developed in the course:

• Brief development  
• Research
• Concept drawing
• Functional modelling
• Prototype development
• Fitness for purpose
• Creative thinking

Course Costs: Approximately $100-$250. All costs of materials used in the construction of the design solution are the responsibility of the student.

Assessment: Components of this course will be selected from the following standards to suit individual learning needs.