Drawing from the rich pūrākau from our ancestors, Engineering Young Māori Minds uses these kōrero to create interactive science and engineering based challenges for rangatahi to participate in. To creating from scratch a drone which must be flown into a series of three baskets – relating to the pūrākau of Tane and his acension through multiple heavens to attain the three baskets of knowledge.
Also, right through to rangatahi being tasked to create a hydraulic arm which shifts an object to a Moon platform, in reference to Rona being taken up to the Moon, these challenges help rangatahi see the connection between themselves and science. This kaupapa helps rangatahi see that our ancestors were incredible scientists, and that science is a part of us, it is in our very D.N.A.!