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We are throwing open our doors this Sunday for an activity-packed Open Day.

Visitors to the Taradale campus will be able to see demonstrations and displays, tour the facilities and chat to lecturers and students about programmes and career paths. Or you can just have a walk around our fabulous gardens!

The EIT Open Day, from 11am and 2pm, also offers hands-on activities and a chance to see students working on practical assignments that are part of their study.

It will be the first opportunity for the public to view the newest facility on campus – the $8-million Trades and Technology TrainingComplex, which is to be officially opened on Friday.

The growing interest in trades and technology programmes and a different mode of teaching triggered our decision to develop a greenfields site at the western end of the campus. This replaces facilities built in the early 1970s and the nature of trades education has changed significantly since then.
The building was designed and constructed to a number of environmentally sustainable design initiatives.

Entertainment planned for the Open Day includes model aeroplane flying displays and live music by the Kaweka Flyers and the Drones and Sticks Pipe Band. The campus café Bean There will be open and the EIT Students Association is planning a sausage sizzle.