HIGHLIGHT REEL

Inspiration

Shotover Primary School FOS (Friends of School) are hosting an evening with Mark Inglis. Inglis, a professional mountaineer who lost his legs to frostbite after being trapped on Mt Cook in 1982, was the first double amputee to climb Mt Everest. He talks tonight at the school’s community hall.

Tribute to women’s suffrage

Dunedin Public Libraries’ Heritage Collections pay tribute to 125 years of New Zealand women’s suffrage with an exhibition, ‘‘Voices and Votes — A Tribute to Women’s Suffrage’’, at the Reed Gallery on Friday.

Celebrating women’s history

Historian Barbara Brookes and Otago Museum curators Rachel Wesley and Moira White explore the history of New Zealand women through objects from the museum’s collection, Sunday at the museum. See the country’s history through the eyes of wives, daughters, mothers, grandmothers, sisters and aunts.

Robots under Antarctica’s ice

Dr Britney Schmidt, from the Georgia Institute of Technology, will outline how researchers are using an autonomous underwater vehicle to explore the harsh environments beneath the Antarctic ice shelves as a test for developing vehicles for space travel and to better understand climate and planetary science, Tuesday at Otago Museum.