Amanaki STEM Academy

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🔬🩺 ASA Health Science Challenge 2026 🩺🔬Our Year 10–13 students recently completed the ASA Health Science Challenge, inve...
10/06/2026

🔬🩺 ASA Health Science Challenge 2026 🩺🔬

Our Year 10–13 students recently completed the ASA Health Science Challenge, investigating real health issues affecting Pasifika communities using data from the Kainga Manuia project - ASA & Sweet Pressure – Pūtahi Manawa research collaboration.

Working in 12 self-selected teams of 1–3 students, they explored topics including fitness, body weight, blood sugar, cholesterol, blood pressure, nutrition, and health literacy, before presenting their findings through scientific research posters.

We are especially proud of our **Year 10 students**, who confidently took on the challenge alongside senior students, and of those who completed an entire research project on their own!

The quality of the work was outstanding and showcased the students' growing skills in research, data analysis, critical thinking, and scientific communication.

A huge thank you to our judges, Dr William McIntyre, Soteria Ieremia, Velonika Eteuati, Sweet Pressure – Pūtahi Manawa and our ASA families for supporting this learning opportunity. Congratulations ASA students and your families 👏

🌟 The future of Pasifika health research is in great hands!

🎓✨ ASA Alumni – UCOL Graduation 2026 ✨🎓We’re proud to celebrate two Amanaki STEM Academy alumni who graduated at the Uni...
01/04/2026

🎓✨ ASA Alumni – UCOL Graduation 2026 ✨🎓

We’re proud to celebrate two Amanaki STEM Academy alumni who graduated at the Universal College of Learning (UCOL) 2026 Graduation Ceremony:

Tre Viviani – Diploma in Electrical Engineering
Now working in Niue, giving back to his family and community through his skills and knowledge.

Jesse Vikiani Teumohenga – Bachelor of ICT
Currently employed as a Technician at Advantage Computers in Palmerston North.

These achievements reflect the strength of the ASA pipeline—supporting our Pasifika students from primary-intermediate- high school, through tertiary study, and into meaningful STEM careers. Congratulations to you and your families.

We are proud of your work ethic and the example you set for your younger peers.

🌟 Congratulations to Discovery Scholar and ASA Alumnus Jesse Vikiani Teumohenga! 🌟We are proud to celebrate Vikiani for ...
01/02/2026

🌟 Congratulations to Discovery Scholar and ASA Alumnus Jesse Vikiani Teumohenga! 🌟

We are proud to celebrate Vikiani for representing ASA, Aotearoa New Zealand and the Pacific at the Global Young Scientist Summit 2026 in Singapore as a nominee of the MacDiarmid Institute.

This outstanding achievement reflects his commitment to STEM excellence and the power of opportunity, mentorship, and Pacific leadership. We look forward to the impact he will continue to make.
👏🏽 Well done, Vikiani — you continue to inspire the next generation of ASA learners.
Please take time to read Vikiani's reflections on this incredible experience. Meitaki to the MacDiarmid Institute: https://www.macdiarmid.ac.nz/ for supporting . You can read about Vikiani's reflections in the text below taken from the MacDiarmid Institute January 2026 Newsletter -

Discovery Scholar Jesse Teumohenga attended the Global Young Scientist Summit 2026, 5-9 January, in Singapore as one of the MacDiarmid Institute’s nominees. His report on his experience is as follows:

"At the beginning of 2026 I was honoured on behalf of The MacDiarmid Institute to attend the Global Youth Scientists Summit (GYSS) held at the National University of Singapore (NUS). I was very fortunate to receive this nomination considering I had just completed my undergrad. Leading up to the conference I was rather nervous as this was my first solo trip and only second conference I had attended. Not only that but a clear majority of attendees were PhD students or doing their postdoc. Regardless, getting this once in a lifetime opportunity to not only meet new people but learn about topics from experts and noble laureates made the experience even more fulfilling.

Coming from an IT background focussing on cybersecurity, I was mainly interested in Adi Shamir’s lecture, Deep Neural Cryptography. He delved deep into deep neural networks (DNN) and how to securely and correctly implement a cryptographic function on a DNN. I also enjoyed the talks about Quantum computing, especially the panel on “Supercomputing and Quantum: Redefining the Future”. The panel discussed the differences between quantum computing and traditional computing both in performance and the way problems are represented and solved. Quantum computers use qubits that exist in superposition (e.g. 1 and 0 at the same time) and become entangled to handle large numbers of algorithms at once, unlike traditional computers that depend on binary states, only 1’s and 0’s at one point in time. Like many of the presentations and panels they were highly sophisticated so I tried my best in deciphering certain words and jargon used by the speakers.

My favourite aspect of the conference was meeting new people from around the world. Being able to meet people from different cultures who have different perspectives was an amazing experience for me. I made friends there that I still keep in contact with and whenever I’m on their side of the world I hope to visit them. This conference not only inspired me to pursue further studies but also helped me to get out of my comfort zone and meet new people".

Jesse Teumohenga at GYSS 2026.

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