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Building a career in events from the ground up

Perched 90 feet in the air, looking down at a race track that she was helping to transform into the biggest music festival in North America, Genevieve Poppe was soaring to new heights in her career – one she had only stumbled into by chance.

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Waimakariri swim educator named 2021 Skills Active Aotearoa Apprentice of the Year

No matter how experienced or how good you are, you can always keep learning and progressing. After teaching swimming for more than a decade, Ali Gills still gets inspired by seeing learners of all ages progress in the water.

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Porirua prefect and rugby player named Skills Active 2021 Māori Sports Scholar

Talented high school athlete and aspiring engineering student Cody Lokotui has been awarded the Skills Active Māori Sports Scholarship for 2021.

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Building up the Kiwi cross-country ski instructor workforce at Snow Farm

Eric Schusser describes cross-country skiing as a very peaceful but also a social sport. In 2021 he and the team at Snow Farm have been helping more people to enjoy it, through their work to develop a skills pathway for cross-country ski instructors.

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Meet the senior assessor mentor: Kat Reweti-Russell

Kat Reweti-Russell spent 18 months working at Skills Active Aotearoa, but her career as a Skills Active assessor has been much longer than that - and now she is helping others to become great assessors as well.

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Yogi apprentices helping to heal hurting bodies through the power of movement and breath

Working with people as they find their ‘aha’ moments is what keeps Rebecca Harford coming into work every day.

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Skills Active passes on a taonga as it hands over standard-setting responsibilities

Skills Active today ceases to be the standard-setting body for sport, recreation and performing arts, and hands over this function to the newly established workforce development council, Toi Mai.

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People-watching with a purpose at the Rotorua Aquatic Centre

You spend so many hours at work, it helps if you enjoy it. That’s how Rotorua Aquatic Centre facility manager Leah Burgess sees it, and that philosophy is what drives the award-winning training and mentoring that her staff receive.

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Personal and professional growth through the medium of Martial Arts

Jesse Puata was “a bit of a mongrel of a kid” when Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu (BJJ) planted a seed that grew his life into a different shape, and harnessed his abilities on and off the mat.

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