Dr Angela Sharples, MNZM, of Rotorua, for services to education
Dr Angela Sharples is Principal of Murupara Area School.
She has encouraged staff to individualise learning programmes and has engaged with the Youth Employability programme and Massey University’s Pūhoro programme, as well as building relationships with Stray, Air New Zealand and Kohutapu lodge.
She partnered with the District Health Board to provide mobile dental vans in Murupara, after discovering many teenagers were absent from school because of dental infections.
She helped establish Te Aka Toitū Trust to address the digital divide in the Eastern Bay of Plenty.
Dr Sharples is Chairperson of the New Zealand Biology Olympiad programme and secretary for Rotorua Show Jumping and Bay of Plenty Show Hunter.