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‘Sustainable Seas’: INTERFACE Student Minecraft Competition 2025 We’re up and running for this year’s INTERFACE Student Minecraft Competition. Once again, we’ve teamed up with the Marine Stewardship Council and have a new assignment for our young Minecrafters to tackle called ‘Sustainable Seas’. The challenge is to build an environment that keeps fishing sustainable and ensures clean and pollution-free seas. Come up with the design within our guidelines, construct it in Minecraft and record a short, 3-minute video tour. There are some great prizes and bragging rights as the best Minecrafters in the land!

Accessit Roadshow returns to Aotearoa – and it’s bigger than ever! The Accessit Library team has been making waves across the globe in 2025, and now it’s the turn of New Zealand’s educators to connect.Get ready for a learning-packed day at the Accessit Roadshows. Offering more than product updates, these events are about real PD while connecting with other schools, as well as showing what’s possible in your school library and beyond.

Ministry’s new ST4S module aims to make it easier and safer to trust AI-powered tools Artificial Intelligence is steadily moving from the periphery to the heart of many education platforms. How do you know what’s safe to use? The Safer Technologies for Schools (ST4S) initiative has released a  comprehensive AI module that introduces new expectations and controls for vendors offering AI-enabled services to schools in New Zealand. This gives schools and venders a practical, nationally coordinated way to evaluate the risks and responsibilities that come with AI in education.

Bringing farming alive in a Minecraft world Going down on the farm has taken on a whole new meaning with Mātiki Minecraft, a game developed by a team of agricultural and horticultural science advisory teachers.It complements new study units they created for New Zealand Year 7-10 students’ science and agricultural curriculum. 

File Share: Free online resources for educators.

Competitions: Heaps of great prizes to be won!

INTERFACE June 2025