Northland Indoor Bowls is making a push for youngsters to break the mould and take up the sport.
The organisation brought New Zealand development officer Michelle Watt up from Taranaki, where indoor bowls thrives at a school level, to teach students at Kamo Intermediate and Huanui College about the sport.
NIB match convener Jeremy Bartleetsaid there's a great opportunity for students to get into the code.
"One of the motivating factors has been AIMS Games. Schools up here want to send players along.
"Against the sport there's a vision that bowls is an old person's sport. When we take it into schools they see it isn't that. Those that like to be in a team and play with their mates buy into it.