The programme will run in Waitara High School, Devon Intermediate, Te Paepae o Aotea, the Head Office, Ōmata School and one more location yet to be confirmed. Each school will have three one-and-a-half-hour sessions, which will be adapted to suit the schools.
She says Wildlife.ai aims to produce and deliver an engaging educational program that will teach Taranaki children about Aotearoa’s marine reserves and how AI technology is used in wildlife conservation.
“The programme will teach the students the history of Aotearoa’s marine environment, explain the importance of marine reserves, how artificial intelligence is used in wildlife conservation, how to use data trends from baited underwater video to develop questions about how to train a machine-learning model to identify marine life species and to build a machine-learning model using code blocks to identify a fish species. As the project evolves, members of the public will be able to actively contribute to monitoring surveys and build their own awareness of marine conservation.”
Wildlife.ai will also produce a specialised learning program that can be taught by more educators in the future. She says the Wildlife.ai team are excited about the programme.
“We can’t wait to involve the schools in this and [see] how the project will grow in the future.”
