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Auctioneer Bill Todd inspects some of the memorabilia being auctioned for Janice Goldsmith at Mabel Bush on Saturday. Janice Goldsmith and her family are keeping some pieces as she prepares to move to Dunedin. Asked if she was sad to sell most of the collection, Goldsmith said: “No, there’s no point in being sad, it doesn’t get you anywhere.” She and her late husband collected memorabilia from a variety of industries during the past 70 years, including farming and Southland businesses. Furniture from the colonial era and numerous signs including one from David Strang Coffee and Spice Works, which operated in Esk St, Invercargill, from 1872 to 1966.
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University of Otago deputy vice-Chancellor (external engagement) professor Helen Nicholson and Dr Elman Poole in Oxford in 2016. Poole has donated almost $2.9 million to help Invercargill students. In an interview in 2016, Dr Poole said the scholarships were targeted and carefully planned initiatives that provided opportunities for young people to go to university and study abroad. “They are life-changing opportunities for those who are prepared to step-up and make a success of it,” Dr Poole said. Executor of his estate in the UK, Emerita Pilgrim, said “Elman had always told me of his desire to enable young, talented New Zealand scholars to fulfil their academic abilities, to achieve the highest possible professional leadership goals, with a commitment to serve their community.
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Southland Girls’ High School student Sophie Ineson and Charge de Affaires Kevin Covert from the United States Embassy in NZ share a word in the school s library. Covert arranged for three Nasa interns to visit the school after seeing Ineson on national television last year.
Was there once life on Mars? A young New Zealand physicist working in the field of cosmological computing will be among the team of Nasa scientists who will analyse the data sent back from the Perseverance rover that landed on Mars last week. Emily Kendall, from Auckland, is doing an internship with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration through the New Zealand Space Agency, albeit remotely, thanks to Covid-19 restrictions.
Your playlist will load after this ad Twelve-year-old Sophie Ineson noticed it’s mostly men who enter the industry, so she did something about it. Source: 1 NEWS
Twelve-year-old Sophie Ineson, who attends Southland Girls High School in Invercargill, hopes to one day work for the likes of NASA or Rocket Lab. I really like the space industry, not just the person who launches the rocket, not the person who s in the rocket but all of the different things behind it, she told 1 NEWS.
But her dreams lie in an industry mostly dominated by men, something she wants to change by getting more women interested in the job.
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Southland Girls’ High School student Sophie Ineson, 12, is encouraging more girls to get involved in science, starting with her own schoolmates, thanks to help from the US Embassy.
It started with a simple question from 12-year-old schoolgirl Sophie Ineson: “Why aren’t more women involved in New Zealand’s space industry?” Now the United States Embassy are making a rare trip south, bringing some former and current NASA interns – who just happen to be Kiwi women – to Invercargill in later this month, to explain to Sophie and her schoolmates how that could be changed. The Southland Girls’ High School student was featured on national television in 2020, when she was featured on Fair Go s