She has been selected from 300 applicants for a teaching fellowship to travel to the Antarctic for three weeks.
She will hold a primary teacher's fellowship for the Antarctic from the Royal Society of New Zealand. She will be on leave from her position at Warrington school for two terms.
Mrs Korth (45) plans to set up a video conferencing link with the three classes at Warrington school while she is in the Antarctic.
She hopes to hold daily video conferencing sessions with the Warrington teachers and their pupils. She has enjoyed reading about the Antarctic and is very aware of the degree of interdependence she and others in the Antarctic will be bound by.
She was influenced by the work of Sir Edmund Hillary on the ice.
A keen tramper, she has built up her physical fitness tramping in the Silver Peaks area near Dunedin.
Mrs Korth, who has a BSc in botany and biochemistry, will be involved in a study of marine life. However, she is not yet sure which group of scientists she will be working with.
When she returns to New Zealand she will spend the remainder of the year visiting schools and developing resources on the Antarctic.
