Des Hunt lives at Matarangi on the Coromandel Peninsula. For more than 40 years he was a secondary teacher specialising first in physics, and then later in electronics and computing. Interspersed with this teaching were secondments to develop science curricula in the Pacific, Scotland and New Zealand. Several textbooks were written to support these curricula and his ideas for science education.
He retired from the classroom in 2007 to concentrate on writing fiction for children. He continues his aims of fostering young peoples’ natural interest in the science of their surroundings by visiting schools and libraries, where he runs workshops and presentations.
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