Holly Frewen is engineering herself a bright future. The 16-year-old Twizel Area School student now spends one day a week working with Meridian Energy’s mechanical team at Ohau as part of the Gateway programme, designed to attract and train new talent. She wishes it was more. “It’s so great, I’m really loving it. I wish I could be there more.” …

At the age of 29, Hayley Macphail is finally living the dream. Despite knowing she wanted to be an electrician for most of her adult life, Hayley didn’t really know how to make it a reality – or even if it was a possibility for a young woman, even in modern New Zealand. “I don’t know if it has changed …