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Digital Creativity Foundation | Level 4
We know it’s hard to make big decisions about your future, which is why our Digital Creativity Foundation programme covers a little bit of everything from the worlds of creative and digital design.
Digital creativity is highly sought after in sectors like the arts, advertising, game design, film making and more.
This programme is delivered online by Media Design School with students working onsite in Rotorua with Digital Natives Academy who provide pastoral care along with state-of-the-art high spec computers and an amazing new space to study.
Student Work from 2022
In 2022, DNA’s Level 4 students had an 80% completion rate, join us in 2023 and find your purpose, find your path.
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Our Partners
Taking Enrolments for 2026
Nau mai, haere mai
Native Tech is DNA’s education arm offering accredited NZQA programmes (L1-L3). Focus is on life administration, wellbeing, content creation and storytelling at Level 1. With higher levels focusing on animation, 3D dev, game dev, coding, cybersecurity, climate change, data sovereignty and artificial intelligence. Our next intake will start 23 Feb 2026.
Welcome to Digital Natives Academy
About Us
Digital Natives Academy (DNA) is an award-winning, Indigenous-centred non-profit established in 2014 to grow bold, creative thinkers who don’t just use and consume technology, they create and shape it.
Our kaupapa (vision) is grounded in Te Ao Māori and guided by our Three Kete of Knowledge: taiao (environment), ahurea (culture), and pā harakeke (intergenerational foundations). Together, these kete inform how we teach, build, and imagine the future. At DNA, rangatahi learn to become creators, developers, critics, and guardians of technology, equipped with the skills, confidence, and values to navigate a rapidly changing world shaped by climate change and artificial intelligence.
We work at the intersection of digital creativity, climate action, and AI, empowering young people to design Indigenous-led solutions to global challenges.
Through project-based learning and real-world problems, learners explore how emerging technologies can protect the environment, strengthen cultural identity, and create lasting impact for future generations.
DNA is more than a place to learn technical skills. It is an intergenerational centre of digital excellence, a sanctuary of belonging where outliers find whānau, curiosity is nurtured, and leadership is grown with care and responsibility.
Nau mai, haere mai!
DNA is now on Roblox, click below to login, take a tour, and meet DNA team members.
