Creating space for Māori tech futures video transcript
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A title screen using a semi-transparent overlay on top of New Zealand bush from a birds-eye view. In turquoise font it reads: “Dr Nancy Garrity and Team: Creating Space for Māori tech futures”. Underneath is the Science for Technological Innovation National Science Challenge logo. The camera moves forward over the bush and the overlay clears. We can see open space and benches between the vegetation. Cut to a woman wearing a fascinator (looks like a flower crown) and leather jacket who talks to the camera with flax plants behind her. The bottom right corner of the screen reads ‘Anastasia Rickard: Research Mātauranga Māori partner’ and underneath ‘Ngāti Whakaue, Ngāti Porou, Te Arawa, Tainui’. We then have another high panning shot of a concrete bridge. There are two tall Pouwhenua (carved wooden posts) on either side of the road of the bridge. Around the bridge is lush vegetation, mostly cabbage trees.
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Anastasia Rickard:
I ended up buying a Scholastic science book kit from one of the Scholastic book fairs at school when I was 10. And then I just fell in love with science after that, just mixing this with that and then it makes something happen.
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The camera cuts to Nancy who sits inside and speaks to the camera in front of a glass panel with a green diamond pattern painted on the outside. On the bottom right corner of the screen, it reads ‘Dr Nancy Garrity, Project leader & Pou Pūtahitanga Manger Ao Māori-Science Interface, ESR’. Under a dividing line it says ‘Ngāti Makirangi, Ngāti Pāoa, Ngāti Hine’. She wears glasses with her hair pulled back in a bun. Again we see the bridge and cabbage trees from a different angle as the camera looks down from above before we return back to Nancy.
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Dr. Nancy Garrity:
Just being naturally curious, growing up, being like really haututū as, touched everything got told off. Once I hit university, it was such a different experience. The lack of value that they had for Te Ao Maori and Mātauranga Māori. And so that's where I began to shed the things that made me specifically me.
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Next Anastasia talks again in front of the flax before we switch to a close up of one of the Pouwhenua. As the camera zooms out the carving becomes out of focus and we see the vegetation behind it clearing into view. We return back to Anastasia.
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Anastasia Rickard:
I feel being the only Māori girl as well, in my science classes at high school and at university can get a little bit lonely, stay strong and be yourself. That's really important because I feel like if you lose yourself, you're losing your identity and you're almost losing, what's driving you to pursue what industry you want to get into. And I'm hoping that it's science.
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Now we see Nancy speaking as the camera switches angles. We then see shots of the Scion Research Institute, a large building with three triangular wooden archways and large green and orange painted windows. They are time-lapsed shots that begin at sunset. Back to Nancy as she laughs and speaks enthusiastically. Then we see a shot pointing up at the clouded sky at dusk with the silhouette of a single plant in front.
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Dr. Nancy Garrity:
There's beginning to be an enthusiasm coming up through the ranks to properly implement Te Ao Maori, seeing the value of Te Ao Māori and mātauranga here, and the potential that this is a platform that sets our science apart. There are people like us who are there waiting, and we are slowly building a very safe space for our rangatahi to be Māori and to be scientists. Hold on, hold on to being Māori, take me Māori into your classes. Wait for us, we're coming. Yeah. Hold on to the things that make you you.
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A semi-transparent overlay covers the screen in front of the image. Three logos appear. On top is one for the Science for Technological Innovation National Science Challenge, and under it, side by side from left to right is one for the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment and then one for Callaghan Innovation with the subheading New Zealand’s Innovation Agency. The logos disappear revealing a web address in a turquoise font that reads stfichallenge.govt.nz. Below, the phrase “He hiringa hangarau, he oranga tangata” is written in bold font, with “Innovation in technology for the benefit of people” written below that in plain font.