Ngaruawahia High School Yearbooks 2010-2012 Ngaruawahia High School Yearbook 2012 | Page 24

All Year 12 and Year 13 students along with senior students from Raglan Area
School participated in a 3 Day Business Programme which is sponsored by the
Maori Woman’s Development League.
Teams of students are pitted against each other in a competition to brainstorm a
creative and innovative business idea. The team then assumes responsibilities
based on the creation of a business plan. As the target audience varies dramatically
in terms of prior business knowledge, presenters spend the majority of the 3 days
upskilling and refining student knowledge on subjects as diverse as Business Leadership, Strategic Planning, Finance, all facets of Marketing, Production and SWOT
Analysis. All these topics contribute to the creation of the business plan.
On the third day the learning area is transformed into an Expo Pavilion with each
team setting up their expo site attractively to best promote their business to a
group of expert judges -– business people in their own right.
The judges follow a set criteria and reward points based on what each team presents. The outcome of the judging determines who is awarded with the Business
Excellence prize. We would like to thank our Judges - Nanaia Mahuta (Member of
Parliament), Jackie Haggie (Tainui), Mel Tooke (FraserNet), ???? (Waikato District
Council).
All participants received a participation certificate and leaders were rewarded with
their own certificate.
The students in their groups came up with the following businesses:

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Animal Entertainment
Stack Tech Industry
Hackt
Xplore Hats
Aqua Fresh
V Nike Ink
Lenz 7
Switchch

After judging the winning team were “Aqua Fresh”. This winning team consisted of
Wednesday Gilbert - Leader, Mariah Simon, Antea Diamond Penetito, Paige Mahara,
Shirley Mackie, Josiah Barton, Rangi Rongo and Nathan Giddens.
Their product “was to provide a transportable water filter which would enable a
person to purify water in a transportable bottle”.