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Friday, August 22, 2025
Volume 16 . Issue 73
Komputer Kooks, a group of Wellington East Girls' College information technology students, are helping other girls from their school, and also their parents.
The students offer help to fellow students who need assistance with computers during school hours, and help students' parents from 3.30pm till 5pm every Wednesday.
Their parent tutoring classes have proved a hit. Each week a Kook is given a parent to tutor in the ways of information technology.
The programme helps students connect with parents on a different level. It also allows parents to see how dedicated the Kooks are.
``We all love tutoring the parents,'' said 2009 technology prefect Jayna Patel.
``It is really great to feel that you are helping them, and it gives you the chance to get to know them in a different way.
``We didn't think we knew enough to teach them, but we found out that we did, so that's pretty cool, too. It is really empowering.''
During school time, the Kooks run an elective information technology class once a week for junior students.
Komputer Kooks are being run this year by Jayna, with assistance from the head of department of information technology, Cris Roughton, and the other two IT teachers, Timothy Harford and Julia Flanagan.
The Kooks were started early last year by a group of year 12 and 13 girls skilled in computer technology. Since then, they have become well-known throughout the school.
They are hoping to soon have their own web page connected to the school website.
Their IT skills help the Kooks at the end of each school term when they put together a slide-show of pictures of events and girls from throughout the term.
The Kooks recently took part in the Wellington Regional Tech Hui '09, at Samuel Marsden Collegiate.
- The Wellingtonian
Komputer Kooks, a group of Wellington East Girls' College information technology students, are helping other girls from their school, and also their parents.
The students offer help to fellow students who need assistance with computers during school hours, and help students' parents from 3.30pm...
Komputer Kooks, a group of Wellington East Girls' College information technology students, are helping other girls from their school, and also their parents.
The students offer help to fellow students who need assistance with computers during school hours, and help students' parents from 3.30pm till 5pm every Wednesday.
Their parent tutoring classes have proved a hit. Each week a Kook is given a parent to tutor in the ways of information technology.
The programme helps students connect with parents on a different level. It also allows parents to see how dedicated the Kooks are.
``We all love tutoring the parents,'' said 2009 technology prefect Jayna Patel.
``It is really great to feel that you are helping them, and it gives you the chance to get to know them in a different way.
``We didn't think we knew enough to teach them, but we found out that we did, so that's pretty cool, too. It is really empowering.''
During school time, the Kooks run an elective information technology class once a week for junior students.
Komputer Kooks are being run this year by Jayna, with assistance from the head of department of information technology, Cris Roughton, and the other two IT teachers, Timothy Harford and Julia Flanagan.
The Kooks were started early last year by a group of year 12 and 13 girls skilled in computer technology. Since then, they have become well-known throughout the school.
They are hoping to soon have their own web page connected to the school website.
Their IT skills help the Kooks at the end of each school term when they put together a slide-show of pictures of events and girls from throughout the term.
The Kooks recently took part in the Wellington Regional Tech Hui '09, at Samuel Marsden Collegiate.
- The Wellingtonian
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