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Media Snippets

Here is a selection of media coverage given to Catalyst Trust initiatives:

  • Spotlight on helping to shape local democracy – Mountain Scene, 23 July 2020
  • Vigils in Queenstown and Wanaka – Otago Daily Times, 17 March 2019
  • Lilliput Libraries – tiny but mighty – Crux, 3 December 2018
  • Event promises plenty to think about – Otago Daily Times, 19 October 2018
  • Monsters and robots for MindJam – The Scene, September 2018
  • Astronaut lands in Queenstown – April 2018
  • Lilliput Library now at Wakatipu Home – The Mirror, January 2018
  • inSight September 2017 – The Mirror
  • With initial support from Catalyst, Wakatipu High School students set up United Youth Voice to give youth representation in civic matters : Mountain Scene, June 2017.
  • Family and Sexual Violence workshop: The Mirror and Stuff.co.nz – March 2017
  • Dr Albert Folch at Shotover Primary School: The Spinoff – February 2017
  • AMN8’s Nano Trio: Southern Television Channel 39 and The Spinoff – February 2017
  • Constitution Aoteroa – A Catalyst Conversation: Mountain Scene – February 2017
  • Dr Marc Schallenberg’s talk on the problem of lake snot: The Mirror, Otago Daily Times, and QLDC’s response: Stuff.co.nz – November 2016
  • Lilliput libraries, Mountain Scene, November 2016
  • Catalyst wins the Trustpower Queenstown Lakes District Community Supreme Award, October 2016: Stuff, Otago Daily Times and The Mirror
  • Luminescence, Dodd-Walls Centre, June 2016
  • NASA talk on super pressure balloon program, WHS newsletter, April 2016
  • Science Aid Packs, Mirror November 2015
  • ODT Flag Referendum Coverage
  • Trustpower Award 2015

inSight: a sneak peek into our future (August 28-September 2, 2016)

  • New Zealand Science Teacher, 27 September 2016
  • Wakatipu High School newsletter, 9 September 2016 page 6 and page 7
  • Mountain Scene, 8 September 2016
  • Mirror, 8 September 2016
  • Stuff, 7 September 2016
  • Stuff, 6 September 2016
  • Wakatipu High School newsletter, 26 August 2016 page 6 and page 7
  • Mountain Scene, 25 August 2016
  • The Loop, 23 August 2016

Tackling Poverty (workshop and presentation March 29, 2016)

  • Wakatipu High School newsletter, 8 April 2016
  • Otago Daily Times editorial, 2 April 2016
  • Otago Daily Times article, 30 March 2016
  • Mountain Scene article, 30 March 2016
  • Mirror front page, 23 March 2016

Affordable Housing Talk

  • Thank you letter from the Mayor and extract from Council meeting minutes
  • Thank you letter from Hon. Bill English, Minister of Finance, August 2016
  • Housing Forum article, Stuff.co.nz February 2016
  • Housing Forum article, Mountain Scene February 2016
  • Housing Forum report, ODT February 2016
  • Housing Forum article, Mirror February 2016
  • Lakes Weekly Bulletin article
  • Mountain Scene, July 2015
  • Mirror article
  • Mirror front page, July 2015

Question IT 2015

  • Lakes Weekly Bulletin article
  • Mirror Article
  • Mountain Scene article

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