Hair's Your Gift
Chewing comb honey to extract wax. The block of wax is bought from Bush's Honey in Blenheim.
Melted wax is put into a double boiler and the olive oil is added to the wax.
Students now see how many rubs are required for each drop to make it melt completely.
Background
The Marlborough Technology Centre is a purpose built teaching area with an audio visual suite, a biotechnology laboratory with an attached north facing conservatory, soft and Hard Materials and electronics areas, two kitchens for Food Technology and a central planning area including an ITC suite. All areas are well equipped and teachers, although able to teach across most areas, mostly teach in their speciality area.
Year 7 and 8 students from schools (range of deciles) throughout the Marlborough Area attend twelve 1.5 hour sessions at the centre each term. These twelve sessions usually cover 2 main technological areas and are taught by 2 teachers, ie 6 sessions per teacher. By the end of 2 years students will have covered all areas at least once. The maximum amount of students per class is 18, all classes are co-ed and most classes are not composite (sometimes schools request composite classes).
Most students are from New Zealand European and Māori ethnic backgrounds.
