It's true - without our sponsors the IBO would not be where it is today. If you would like to become a sponsor of the NZIBO please contact Angela Sharples.
NZIBO is proudly sponsored by (in alphabetical order):
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Allan Wilson Centre for Molecular Ecology and Evolution The Allan Wilson Centre, established in 2002, is one of New Zealand’s eight Centres of Research Excellence (CoRE). The Centre is a national collaboration of leading scientists hosted by Massey University with a focus on the evolution of the plant and animal life of New Zealand and the Pacific using advanced genomic and biomathematical methods. The Allan Wilson Centre provides funding to transport students from around the country to the NZIBO Training Camp. This ensures that students from throughout the country can attend.
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BEANZ - Biology Educators Association of New Zealand It is through teachers that students get to know about NZIBO and without the support of teachers we would not have the strong representation at the IBO that we do. |
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As one of the foremost publishers of student workbooks used in secondary schools Biozone provides all Silver certificate awardees with copies of the most recent Biozone workbooks, supporting their academic achievement within school. They also provide the NZ team with a complete set of their Modular workbook series to help them study before the international competition. Biozone supports the teachers behind the students participating with a sampler CD-Rom of the resources available through Biozone. |
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Development and maintenance of the NZIBO website. Assistance with the logistics of the Training Camp. |
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Institute of Natural Sciences - Massey University The Institute is based at the Albany Campus of Massey University on the North Shore of Auckland City and is a major the highest quality provider of natural sciences research and teaching in the Auckland region. The mission of the Institute is to provide research-led education in biology, chemistry and physics. There Their focus is on integrative or systems biology, theoretical sciences and environmental chemistry and physics. The Institute of Natural Sciences hosts two days of the Training Camp and gives on-going academic support to the NZIBO programme. They also provide vital cash sponsorship. |
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New Zealand Ministry of Research Science and Tecnology Provides significant support through the funding of the Talented School Students Travel Award, which our students use to assist with the cost of travel to the international competition. |
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Pearson Education
Pearson publishes the compulsory text for the NZIBO programme; “Campbell Biology” by Reece et al.(2010)They also support our programme by allowing us to use the Instructor Resources when preparing material for the tutorial programme. Every student selected to attend the Training Camp is provided with their own copy of Campbell Biology & Reece to help them study for the camp and which they can also use once they are studying Biology at University.
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The Society provides invaluable support, helping to increase participation of our talented students in the NZIBO programme by assisting with our outreach to schools via their email newsletter and email contact lists for biology educators in New Zealand. The Royal Society also administers the Talented School Students Travel Award which is the major source of funds for our students to be able to attend the international competition. |
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Assisted NZIBO to create links with the other organisations in New Zealand who share the similar goal of fostering academic excellence in science via the establishment of Science OlympiaNZ. |
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University of Auckland Faculty of Science The Faculty of Science provides the cash sponsorship that allow us to run the practical training camp. We are also grateful to a number of individual academics from this University who freely give their time to run seminars at the practical training camp on a variety of topics. |
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The Faculty of Science & Engineering is a key sponsor of the practical training camp. They provide academic and technical staffing, laboratory space and resources for a four day intensive practical training programme to develop the students’ basic practical biology skills. The Faculty also provides significant cash sponsorship for the training camp and offers a $5000 scholarship to our Silver awardees for those students going on to study Science or Engineering at Waikato University.. The University of Waikato also makes significant contributions to the online training programme, hosting a Moodle classroom for the tutorial students and providing on-going academic support of the students. |
