July 2008 update

The in2it team has been working hard to keep fun and enjoyable activities rolling out to youth throughout the North Shore despite the cold wet winter weather. We’ve made a strong focus to use as many indoor facilities as possible for our winter activities.

Although the first week of June we were all lucky enough to get some sunshine for our first ever High Ropes Day held at Birkenhead Leisure Centre. The day was free and open to all members of the family to test there courage and confidence on the awesome high ropes challenge course. The ZM black thunders were on site giving away spot prizes and pumping out some tunes. Through out the day approximately 150 dare devils harnessed up and took the course on.

Over the past couple of weeks in2it worked in collaboration with Xpress Academy of Dance and run some free community hip hop classes. These classes were instructed by members of Prestige, who are New Zealand’s leading hip hop group that are currently fundraising to allow the group to travel to the US to compete in the World Championships where they finished second in 2006.

In2it also linked in the with North Shore YMCA ‘Raise Up N Represent’ program to run Paradox '08 – a music fest competition for singers, dancers, and bands. The event was held at Activzone and 12 finalists competed on the night in front of 250 person strong crowd.

Our very own portable skate ramps and grinder boxes have proven to be very popular with an average of 80 skaters tearing up the ramps up every Friday night at Activzone. Youth can ride the ramps from 6pm to 10pm for $3 every Friday through winter.

As you can see in2it is keeping active through these winter months and we’ve got heaps more planned, such as dodge ball, badminton, 8 week circus workshop, and a indoor inflatable water slide frenzy just to name a few. For more information please log on to our website: www.in2it.org.nz and register to receive the in2it newsletter with all event information.

Thanks,
In2it Team.

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Youth Destinations

Project manager – Dan Kane

Earlier this year, Dan joined council as the youth destinations project manager, and in this role Dan will facilitate the city’s Youth Destinations Plan.

Dan has lived his life on the Shore.  An ex pupil of Westlake Boys High School, Dan attended Massey University and graduated with a Bachelor of Business, majoring in Sport Management.

After graduating, in 1999, Dan worked as a consultant at Kane Finance Brokers before moving to Dun & Bradstreet to work as a business analyst.  In March 2001 Dan moved over the ditch to work for Billabong as a printer, screen printing sample designs and colours for production.

In November 2002 Dan moved to Scotland to play professional rugby for Borders Rugby.  This followed a series of local rugby accolades; North Harbour Under 19’s, North Harbour Colts, North Harbour Sevens, North Harbour Development XV, the Auckland Blues Colts and the Australian Barbarians.  During his time in Scotland, Dan visited Scottish schools to promote sport and physical activity and assisted regional rugby development officers to implement rugby programmes in schools.

On Dan’s return to New Zealand he took up the role of Active Schools Facilitator at Harbour Sport.  In this role he worked with targeted schools to develop quality physical activity opportunities for students and also build sustainable school community partnerships.

In 2006 Dan was named as a member of the North Harbour Air New Zealand Cup rugby squad.

Dan believes physical activity is an important part of staying healthy but for anyone to be active and stay active they need to enjoy it.  Dan is using the Youth Destinations Project to promote this key message.

Dan is not playing rugby at the moment due to injury; however he is still passionate about staying active and enjoys touch rugby, surfing and boxing.

Project Ambassadors

As part of the project, project ambassadors are available to schools for activities and speaking engagements.  This could be formally at a school event, or assembly setting, or informally in the classroom.

The ambassadors can discuss their own experiences with sport and physical activity and promote the range of exciting physical activity opportunities available to young people in North Shore City.

Dean Kent

Dean has represented New Zealand, in Swimming, at both the Olympic and Commonwealth Games.  At the 2004 Olympics, he set the New Zealand record for the 200m medley and the New Zealand record for the 400m medley at the Athens Olympics.  Dean won the silver medal for the 200m individual medley at the 2006 Commonwealth Games.

Ryan Wilson

Ryan is a member of the Air New Zealand Cup, Harbour Rugby squad.  In 2006 he was a member of the New Zealand Colts squad and he was a member of the Ranfurly Shield winning Harbour team.  Ryan is studying Sports Business and Management at Massey University.

Rachael Dodwell

Rachael is a member of the 2007 New Zealand Flat Water Kayaking Development Squad.  In January 2007, Rachael was a member of the New Zealand Junior Flat Water Kayaking team that competed a the Australian Youth Olympic Festival in Sydney.  Rachael’s goals include being selected for the Senior New Zealand Team, aiming to compete in the 2012 London Olympics.  Rachael has also had a successful career in surf lifesaving, ocean surf ski racing, netball and volleyball.