OK, screw this

Queen's High School pupil Brooke Roil, 17, tries her hand at a demonstration wall with a screw gun at Otago Open Days, at Otago Polytechnic yesterday.

The two-day event (in partnership with the University of Otago) gave prospective students the chance to chat with lecturers, explore the Dunedin campus, and see the work current students are producing.

Otago Polytechnic executive director Megan Pōtiki said opening the doors of the campus over the two days was a great way for the people to explore potential pathways and career options at their own pace.

Otago Polytechnic offered more than 140 programmes, but its "flagship programmes" included nursing, midwifery, architecture, art, fashion, carpentry, painting and decorating, electrical, automotive, mechanical engineering and arboriculture, she said.