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FRONTLINE Editor-in-Chief and Executive Producer Raney Aronson-Rath sits down with journalists and filmmakers for probing conversations about the investigative journalism that drives each FRONTLINE documentary and the stories that shape our time. Produced at FRONTLINE’s headquarters at GBH and powered by PRX. The FRONTLINE Dispatch is made possible by the Abrams Foundation Journalism Initiative.
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Kiwi ingenuity at its finest coming out of the University of Canterbury.
A group of engineering students believe they’ve set a New Zealand human-powered land speed record.
Their three-wheeler, named Mako, hit 82.6km/h – entirely by pedal power.
The record is expected to be confirmed by the International Human Powered Vehicle Association within a month.
Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering Digby Symons told Mike Hosking it was done as part of a final year project in the department.
He says some projects have students working on problems that come from companies, but some, like this one, have the students addressing a challenge they set themselves.
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