Duct Tape and Flip Flops

Josh and Josh take a look at the Youth Innovation Awards, based in the Bay of Plenty, and take a look at the top achievers, and their intelligent ideas.

Josh talks to Kioumars Ghamker from Agresearch, about why New Zealand is so compelling for innovation, and about what it took for him and his team to build the 'Map And Zap' machine.

Josh B talks to Jacqui Clark from Singing Stars NZ, and they talk about the ways that Performing Arts improves us as people, in both skills, and in creativity.

We talk about Entrepeneur Don Clucas's journey with WhisperGen, a business set up to be an alternative product to traditional home furnaces, which to this date one of the only use cases for the Stirling Engine.

We talk to Jerome, founder of Futurepost, a company transforming soft plastic waste into... Fenceposts! We discuss the journey Jerome undertook to achieve the impossible and defy the experts.

We talk about PetDirect, a small innovation by Kiwi Entrepeneur Shane Bradley, a small but effective example of innovation

We chat to Ben from Robotics Plus, a robotics company in Tauranga ready to take the global agriculture industry by storm

We talk about Planit, an app that gives local expertise for planning your southland holiday. At the end, Josh loses his mind.

We talk about Carbonscape, a company looking to create graphite, an essential material in Lithium Ion batteries, from wood chips.

Josh C visits the Wigram EcoSort to chat to the crew and learn all about how they're saving the good things we throw away from rotting in a pile.