In 2012, when Cori Pokotea left college without a NCEA qualification, she never thought that one day she would be providing an essential service through a global pandemic.

Having graduated with a New Zealand Certificate in Electrical Engineering (Level 3) from Whitireia at the Porirua campus in 2019, top of her class & one of only two female graduates to finish, Cori was then snapped up by electrical company Paradise Power, to work as an apprentice. 

Cori spent the COVID-19 lockdown providing emergency electrical services to families in the Hutt Valley. 

"Cori is a role model student and through hard work and determination landed a great job straight after leaving us, she is a committed worker and applies herself 100% to genuinely helping others,” says Cori’s Whitireia tutor, Alan Lee.

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