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Counties Manukau high school wins top award at YES National Awards in Wellington
Auckland secondary schools dominated the Lion Foundation Young Enterprise Scheme (YES) national awards in Wellington last night winning six top awards.
Twenty-three teams from around New Zealand competed at the national competition with Macleans College’s PLUS student company winning the supreme Company of the Year title and St Cuthbert’s College’s Le Lunch team finished third. Four other teams from across Auckland won excellence awards.
PLUS impressed the judges with its eco-friendly, all-natural soaps made from used coffee beans, and Le Lunch dazzled with its reusable roll up lunch bags.
Auckland Award Winners
Lion Foundation Young Enterprise Scheme Company of the Year (first place)
Winner: PLUS, Macleans College
Bill Qiu (Plus Director); Anita Keestra (ATEED YES Counties Manukau Coordinator); Teresa Wong (Plus Director)
Ministry of Pacific Island Affairs Award for Excellence in Pacifika Business
Winner: Social Marketing Team (SMT), Auckland Seventh Day Adventist High School, Mangere
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Todd Corporation Award for Young Enterprise (third place)
Winner: Le Lunch, St Cuthbert’s College
Gallagher Group Award for Excellence in Social Enterprise
Winner: KEEP, Westlake Girls’ High School
Excellence in Enterprising Technology
Winner: i3dee, Westlake Boys’ High School
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Counties Manukau High Schools celebrate business excellence at YES Awards
Two Counties Manukau high schools took out the top prize at the Counties Manukau regional business awards for the 2011 Lion Foundation Young Enterprise Scheme.
Student companies, PLUS from Macleans College and MMXI from Pukekohe High School, were joint winners of the Outstanding Regional Company of the Year Award.
PLUS is a company which produces and sells eco-friendly, all-natural soaps made from used coffee beans in various scents, while MMXI’s innovative “iCare” line of organic and natural dog treats is designed to improve pets’ health and wellbeing.
The PLUS team from Macleans College also picked up a Communications Award, Best Marketing Award and the Excellence in Business Management Award, while Pukekohe High School’s MMXI group also received the Innovation Award and the Financial Management Award.
About 200 people attended the Counties Manukau regional awards held at Villa Maria Estate in Mangere, to mark the end of the nationwide school-based programme for 2011.
PLUS and MMXI will both now go on to compete for the New Zealand title at the national Lion Foundation Young Enterprise Scheme Awards in Wellington on December 1st, 2011.
Counties Manukau Regional Award Winners 2011
Outstanding Regional Company of the Year Award
Macleans College, PLUS
Pukekohe High School, MMXI
Communication Award
Pukekohe High School, Montarge
Auckland Seventh-Day Adventist High School, SMT
Macleans College, PLUS
Sales and Customer Service Award
Auckland Seventh-Day Adventist high School, ALIYES
Aorere College, Brotection
Best Marketing Award
Macleans College, PLUS
Innovation Award
Pukekohe High School, MMXI
Financial Management Award
Pukekohe High School, MMXI
Auckland Seventh-Day Adventist High School, SMT
Excellence in Business Management Award
Macleans College, PLUS
Aorere College, May-jah 7 Records
Commitment Award
Macleans College, Zipt
Otablu Enterprises from Otahuhu College
YES Teacher of the Year Award
Michael Caley, Macleans College
Joanna MacDowell, Macleans College
Winners of the Counties Manukau Lion Foundation Young Enterprise Scheme (YES) Regional Business Awards Outstanding Regional Companies of the Year Award 2011
| PLUS from Macleans College | MMXI from Pukekohe High School |
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Spotlight Shines on Counties Manukau’s top Young Entrepreneurs
Macleans College and Aorere College jointly won the Outstanding Regional Company of the Year Award at the 2010 Counties Manukau Lion Foundation Young Enterprise Scheme (YES) Regional Business Awards held at Villa Maria Estate on 13 October.
2010 Outstanding Regional Companies of the Year Award
ABCDreams - Macleans College
iFigure - Aorere College
Innovation Award
VIP - Auckland Seventh-Day Adventist High School
Sales & Customer Service Award
Precious - Aorere College
XCELNZ - Auckland Seventh-Day Adventist High School
Best Marketing Award
ABCDreams - Macleans College
Communication Award
Campex - Pukekohe High School
iFigure - Aorere College
Financial Management Award
ABCDreams - Macleans College
SKYE - St Kentigern College
Excellence in Business Management Award
ABCDreams - Macleans College
iFigure - Aorere College
Commitment Award
ClipEco - Aorere College
Zeal Enterprises - Macleans College
Phoenix - Pukekohe High School
Enterprising Manukau YES Teacher of the Year Award
Andrea Lim - Pukekohe High School
ABC Dreams and iFigure represented Counties Manukau at the National Awards in Wellington on 3 November 2010 in the presence of the Governor General, His Excellency, Hon Anand Satyanand. Young Enterprise Trust who own and run the YES programme hosted the National Awards. They were joined by a third company, Team Precious from Aorere College, who won the Gallagher Group Award for Excellence in Social Enterprise.
The Top Scholar of the Year Award was awarded to Holly Eden, a Young Enterprise Scheme student from Pukekohe High School.
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Young Entrepreneurs Dream wins them Top Award!
ABC Dreams, from Macleans College, win First Place at the Lion Foundation Young Enterprise Scheme Oral Business Planning Presentation finals for Counties Manukau.
The Young Enterprise Scheme (YES) is where young entrepreneurs put their creativity into practice. As directors of their own company, students are challenged to develop a business plan and execute that plan for real, making their own decisions and managing risk. The YES is about experiencing business in the widest sense.
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Young Entrepreneurs set to go!
Over 500 secondary students (year 12/13) and 30 teachers from 17 schools made up the 75 student teams that were at Counties Manukau E-Day (Entrepreneurial Day) on Monday 08 March at TelstraClear Pacific Events Centre.
The E-Day marks the launch of this year’s Lion Foundation Young Enterprise Scheme (YES) where all students come together to start the year’s planning, as well as finding out expectations and tips on how to succeed. The YES programme is designed to help students gain knowledge in operating a small business, team building, relationship management, following procedures, record keeping, legal requirements and the process of reporting company performance.
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