Murray Pearson, is cycling 800km as part of the BDO Wellington to Auckland Cycle Challenge on Sunday 15 to Saturday 21 February to raise money for a Tech Shed at Enderley Creative Studio, which is operated by the Waikato Digital Youth Network (WaiDYN), which he also chairs.
The Studio youth will be plotting Murray's GPS coordinates on a map, as well as feeding them into Google Earth, sharing that data via facebook and creating a virtual tour of his progress. They also plan to monitor his heart rate and compare it to another heart rate monitor one of the youth will wear for that week.
The Studio will be holding a cycling technology session with Murray and the youth members on Wednesday, 11th February at 4pm.
Murray says, he is “excited to be working with the Enderley Creative Studio on this project. I continue to be amazed at quality and creativity of the projects that are turned out by the members of the studio and looking forward to seeing what they come up with for this project. I am sure that it will give users of the virtual tour a real insight to what it is like to be involved in a multi-day cycle event. “
Enderley Creative Studio currently has over 300 members ranging in age from 8-25 and is open from 3-7pm Monday to Friday. Youth members have access to advanced technology including 3d engineering, robotics, video-game making tools, and photographic, audio and video production.
Youth create digital projects of self-interest and can work alongside well-trained creative adult mentors based at the Studio, as well as connect online to over 4000 youth at High Tech Youth Studio’s across the Pacific region from Hawaii to New Zealand.
The Tech Shed will provide opportunities for social enterprise development in the community by connecting youth members with mentors to provide ideas, products and services to industry and business networks.
What: Q &A with Murray and youth members
When: Wednesday, 11th February at 4pm
Where: Enderley, Creative Studio, 66 Tennyson Road, Enderley.
To make a secure online donation, please visit Murray’s Givealittle fundraising Page https://givealittle.co.nz/fundraiser/murray-w2a
For more information on WaiDYN and Enderley Creative Studio please visit waikatodigitalyouth.org
Contact:
Brydie Myers, brydie@hightechyouth.org, 027 777 6800
