Fresh out of the oven · Issue No. 7

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"A homeschool publication for kids who don't fit the mould."

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📋 This edition's topics

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🗳️ Politics & having a say 62%

Can you actually change things before you're old enough to vote? Let's find out.

🌏 Environment & our backyard 48%

From beach cleanups to backyard worm farms — small stuff that adds up.

🎸 Music we actually make 71%

Bedroom bands, garage demos and the first gig nerves. Got a band? Tell us.

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An interview you'd read, a how-to you wish existed, a place worth a road trip — anything. We read every single one.

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Meet Tane, 13 — Whangārei

Builder of suspiciously ambitious cardboard machines.

Tane turned the family garage into a workshop and spent six weeks building a marble run that climbs the whole back wall. When it finally worked end-to-end, the whole street came to watch. He says the trick is "not minding when it falls apart the first forty times." We think that's a pretty good recipe for just about everything.

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Issue No. 7 — "The Maker Issue"

52 pages of real stories by homeschool teens across Aotearoa. Printed on lovely thick paper, posted to your letterbox. Smells faintly of fresh ink, not actual muffins (sorry).

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