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To us mainlanders New Zealand has always looked like paradise, and now it seems even their ID students have more fun. For the final part of their industrial design technology paper, students at Massey University's School of Design got to race human-powered watercraft of their own design around the Frank Kitts Park lagoon, using "bicycle parts, steel tubing, air-conditioning fans, surfboards and angle grinders" to build their creations.

"The students had to integrate aesthetics, ergonomics and mechanics into a working design, but the real test was to see how well their craft navigated the four-lap race course," said ID lecturer Brandon Syme. Beats the hell out of the senior crits we remember.