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Radar is a monthly magazine-style online video about events happening in and around CPIT.

At the start of 2012 there is already plenty happening on and around campus

  • We tour CPIT's Open Day including an exclusive performance by The Loons Circus Theatre Company.
  • CircoArts graduate Sam Wills talks about his internationally acclaimed show 
  • The Boy With Tape on His Face, which was a sell-out success at the recent Stronger Christchurch World Buskers Festival.
  • Engineering technology graduates Sam and Harshana introduce us to their potentially life-saving final year projects.
  • And we visit the stirring launch of the new Pasifika Trades Training programme.

On the Radar in December

  • It’s CPIT’s Creative Festival and we visit the Art & Design students’ Road Cone exhibition at the Christchurch Botanic Gardens.
  • Chief Executive Kay Giles talks about the recent announcement of 100 new scholarships for 2012.
  • Outdoor Education student Hamish Coldicott talks about his plans to tramp and camp the entire West Coast of the United States of America.

Title music thanks to the CPIT Jazz School.

On the Radar in October

  • We talk rugby fever with CPIT’s sports science department
  • Art & Design student Jonny Waters gives us a preview of CPIT’s upcoming Creative Festival
  • We check in on Canterbury Tertiary College secondary students at CPIT’s Sullivan Avenue trades campus
  • Director and CPIT tutor Richard Bell takes us behind the scenes for the making of CPIT’s new TV ad 'Blank Canvas'

Title music thanks to the CPIT Jazz School.

On the Radar in September

  • Ngai Tahu’s Mark Solomon talks about He Toki ki te Rika - an ITP and Iwi-led, collaborative Māori Trade Training initiative to build Māori capability in the building and infrastructure industries in Canterbury
  • The Jazz School Goes Home, with CPIT Head of Performing Arts Tom Rainey
  • Around the world in four lunchtimes, celebrating CPIT's diversity with the Polyculture Festival
  • The Graduation celebration with broadcaster Stacey Morrison

Title music thanks to the CPIT Jazz School.

On the Radar in August

  • The world’s smallest folding electric bicycle at CPIT’s Engineering Expo
  • Westpac Young Designer finalist Georgia Currie’s Debut and MisteR takes on fashion week
  • A visit from South Korea
  • Māori and Pasifika Language Weeks
  • Chief Executive Kay Giles talks about the rebuild

On the radar this month 

  • The Creative Hub and why displaced arts organisations have found a new home at CPIT.
  • CEO Kay Giles talks about the PIN conference in Canada.
  • Celebrity chef Johnny Schwass is in the Pantry.
  • Bobby Kennedy from Opshop at the Chartfest festival.
  • Architecture student Nathan Punton talks about the Gapfiller project at CPIT.
  • Trades tutor Richard Gorrie talks about Habitat for Humanity.

Music thanks to the CPIT Jazz School.