A former Cromwell Class Act recipient is delivering on his promise, writes Kim Dungey.
Blair Kippenberger, pictured at far right with his Delivereasy colleagues, says now is a good time for him and his fellow directors to be in business. ‘‘We’re all in our mid to late 20s and we haven’t got kids or any real responsibilities ... If we’re going to roll the dice, let’s do it now.’’ Photo: supplied.
The rise of robotics and artificial intelligence will transform employment in the future. Kim Dungey catches up on the Otago Daily Times’ 2007 Class Act recipients and finds out if they are ready.
The 2007 Class Act recipients, pictured with then Prime Minister Helen Clark and former Otago Daily Times editor Murray Kirkness, are now aged in their mid to late 20s. They include, clockwise from top left, Rachel Stephen, Aaron Hendry, Ross Haines, Stephanie Miller, Blair Kippenberger (on the motorcycle at far left), Gordon Edwards and Will Harris. Photos: ODT/supplied.
Where are they now? The ODT takes a look to see what the 2007 recipients of the Otago Daily Times Class Act award have been doing since leaving high school.
Front, from left: Otago Daily Times editor Barry Stewart with Prime Minister Bill English and Allied Press chief executive Grant McKenzie at the Otago Daily Times Class Act 2017 awards ceremony at the Dunedin Public Art Gallery yesterday.
The cream of Otago secondary schools’ academic, cultural and sporting crop were recognised for their outstanding achievements at the Otago Daily Times Class Act awards ceremony yesterday.
Cambell Gibbons, formerly of East Otago High School, is a qualified baker and chef who three and a-half years ago became a part-owner (with two other people) of Beano’s Bakery in Waikouaiti.
Cambell Gibbons says going from apprentice baker to part-owner of a bakery was a big learning curve. Photo: supplied.
Hamish Garry, formerly of John McGlashan College, is helping to build a rammed-earth hall in Tanzania after volunteering to work with Shift Design, a group of young architectural graduates from Wellington. The build is being carried out for a Tanzanian NGO and involves volunteers from New Zealand, Europe and Tanzania working alongside local tradespeople.
Hamish Garry helps to build a hall in Moshi, Tanzania, watched by local children. Photo: supplied.
Rhyan McMillan, formerly of Tokomairiro High School, is a captain with Peninsula Airways, Alaska, flying Saab 340 aircraft. She was born in Alaska, where her Kiwi father and Alaskan mother had a flying service, but spent most of her childhood in New Zealand.
Peninsula Airways pilot Rhyan McMillan says she has been lucky to see how other people live around the world and the view out of her ‘‘office window’’ most days is ‘‘pretty amazing’’. Photo supplied.
Rebecca Grant, formerly of St Hilda’s Collegiate School, is a research officer for the Institut Pasteur Centre for Global Health in Paris. Grant helps develop long-term projects across the 33 research institutes within its international network, including an antimicrobial resistance surveillance project. She is also involved in its outbreak investigation taskforce, which responds to emerging and re-emerging infectious disease outbreaks such as Ebola and Zika.
Rebecca Grant at the Institut Pasteur, a non-profit foundation that has been at the forefront of the battle against infectious disease for more than a century. In her first weeks there, she met Dr Francoise Barre-Sinoussi, the French virologist who, along with her colleagues, was the first to isolate HIV, the virus that causes Aids: ‘‘It’s a privilege to be able to work in the same institute as [her] and countless other, internationally renowned scientists ...’’ Photo supplied.
