Events & Current News
2011 Lion Foundation Young Enterprise Scheme Winners Announced
Once again, the competition was tight at this year's national awards. The judges were impressed with all the schools presenting, but in the end only one can take out the title of Company of the Year. Congratulations go to + Plus from Macleans College who created and sold handmade soaps made out of recylcled FairTrade coffee grounds. Well done to our runner up teams, all of our Excellence Award winners and the AUT Scholar of the Year.
Please click here view the complete list of winners To view the photos from the night,
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30th anniversary party officially launches YES Alumni Programme
To celebrate our 30th anniversary, we officially launched the YES Alumni Programme at a cocktail party at Government House, hosted by Their Excellencies, the Governor General of New Zealand Lt Gen Rt Hon Sir Jerry Mateparae and Lady Janine Mateparae. To view a copy of the Governor General's speech, please click here. To see photos of the night, please click here.
Huanui College helps the Foundation for the Blind
Congratulations to this year's winner of the BP Community Enterprise Programme, Huanui College. Their project is to enhance the sensory experience of visitors to the Foundation of the Blind offices in Whangarei. To see a full list of all the finalists, please click here.
Kiwi Keepers Team- Twyford School awarded “Community Enterprise Team of the Year, 2011’
Twyford School in Hastings takes out this award for the second year running! Their project was an outstanding example of integration of social enterprise within the Technology Curriculum. This enterprising team of intermediate aged students has been granted $6700 from Kids restore New Zealand to support the implementation of their project. They have also invited the students (at the Trust’s expense) to participate in an environmental learning and fun experience with Ruud Kleinpaste (the bugman). This is all on top of their prizes awarded by Young Entrprise Trust (see the Community Enterprise homepage for more details of the ten winning teams)
New resource available
Young Enterprise Trust has a resource package to enable teachers to deliver Personal Financial management Unit Standard 25247 (level 3, 3 credits). This is now available at the regular price of $55 per standard package.
The package is part of a sequence of three Personal Financial management standards which include wealth creation, risk, return and diversification. The other two standards, 25242 and 25246, are also available. They are both level 2 standards.
This sequence of standards can be used in conjunction with the Reserve Bank of New Zealand’s game ‘Skint to Mint’.
BusinessNZ Challenge 2012 is open now for registration of interest.
The BusinessNZ Challenge is a unique 3 day experiential learning programme that develops skills, understandings and attitudes about how a successful business operates and connects the students with their local business community.
The programme is run in 55 schools around the country each year, with Year 11 students participating in terms 1,2,3 and Year 10 students in term 4.
Download the pdf information sheet here.
Register your interest online here.
(Registration of interest closes on Friday, 23rd September)
Check out the new and fresh Enterprise Matters e-magazine.
Enterprise Matters e-Magazine for Term 3 is here and ready for you to enjoy in two great electronic formats. Take a look at the online page turn edition on our magazine website http://www.enterprisematters.org.nz/.
While you are there, you can subscribe to receive your own pdf copy delivered to your inbox once a term.
Share it with your team and colleagues, save it, print it, forward it!
Personal Financial Management Standards included in NZQA qualifications
Two NZQA qualifications now include Personal Financial Management (PFM) standards:
1. Two PFM standards are now compulsory for the National Certificate of Employment Skills
(0231).
2. The National Certificate in Mathematics, levels one (1079), and two (1080), offer a maximum of five elective PFM credits at each level.
Young Enterprise Trust make this easy for you to teach. We provide teaching and learning packages, [more]
Winner of the Ricoh Camera
Thanks to everyone who participated in our recent survey to secondary schools asking about your school’s thinking on Personal Financial Management Unit Standards compared with potential use of Achievement Standards.
Congratulations go to the winner of the prize draw for this survey, Klaudia Severn of Auckland Grammar School for Boys. The draw was undertaken by the police at the Lower Hutt Police Station.
Student highlighted on Te Kāea
Ranui Ellison from Dunedin was one of several Māori students to attend the recent Enterprise in Action weekend in Auckland. She was highlighted in coverage from Maori TV in thei Te Kāea programme.
NZ takes second place in Global Enterprise Challenge
What a weekend! 74 top students from the Lion Foundation Young Enterprise Scheme (YES) came together to compete in two different international competitions – the FedEx International Trade Challenge (ITC) and the Global Enterprise Challenge (GEC). The results are out for the GEC and New Zealand once again shined taking out second place out of 16 countries participating. The announcement video of the winners and entries can be viewed at: www.globalenterprisechallenge.com. To have the honour of representing NZ nine different teams, each named after their Company host, competed for the national title. Congratulations to Team Telecom for one fantastic entry for New Zealand.
It's not all over yet. Six talented students have been selected to represent us at the FedEX Express International Trade Challenge in Bangkok in August. Congratulations to Jake Mickleson (Rotorua); Sam Mackwell and Jaden Milligan (Christchurch); Lucy Campion, Tehya Reardon and Ben Reynolds (Auckland). A further congratulations to to Tehya who will also represent all YES students as valedictory speaker at the Fairfax Media NZ Business Hall of Fame gala dinner next month.
Students were just buzzing about their experiences over the weekend and that’s what it’s all about. To see more details, check out the video here.
The Numbers Tell the Story
Financial Literacy is a hot topic right now and you see lots of people speaking and writing about it. But what does Financial Literacy really mean for our society. Click here to see what Terry Shubkin, Chief Executive of Young Enterprise Trust, had to say in the May issue of the INFINZ Journal.
Skint to Mint wins gold award
The Skint to Mint board game has been awarded gold for design and packaging at the Pride in Print Awards in Wellington. The award was judged on the printing process, materials and equipment used for the printing. However, elements of typography and good design were also part of the judgement, as well as the effective and innovative use of materials. Congratulations go to our printers Lithoprint for their excellent work. It’s great to get this recognition for both Lithoprint and our partners the Reserve Bank.
Students impress in BusinessNZ Challenge at Tawa College
The Dominion Post paid us a visit at Tawa College recently. Read their report
DairyNZ Get Ahead Challenge now open for registration
This new programme is a fun and authentic way to engage your year 10 students in Term Four, and offers the chance to win substantial prizes. Register your school before 10 June, and you will go into a draw to win a Ricoh Camera valued at $600. To find out more, and to register Click here
Bringing Financial Education to Pacific Island Schools
We know the strong linkages between the Pacific Islands and New Zealand and the impact that their economic prosperity can have on both New Zealand and the people in Aotearoa with family in the islands. It’s been refreshing to see several Pacific Islands looking to inspire and educate their young people to be more enterprising and financially literate. We are in the final stages of completing phase 1 of a Financial Education project, which is jointly managed by the Pacific Financial Inclusion Programme and the Fiji Ministry of Education. Through the project, a national framework and curriculum material will be developed for the integration of Financial Education into existing subjects for classes 1 to 12 in Fiji. This project is funded by the Australian Aid Programme in Fiji and shall conclude in December 2012. It is envisaged that from 2013, on an annual basis 197,000 students in Fiji will have exposure to Financial Education. We’ve also been consulting with the Cook Islands on bringing both enterprise education and financial literacy into their schools. These are exciting projects and ones that we are proud to be involved with.
Winners of the Ricoh Cameras
Thanks to everyone who participated in our recent surveys to both primary and secondary schools. Congratulations go to the winner of the prize draw for each survey. Lynne Alexander from Springbank School who completed the survey for primary schools and Joanna Smith from Tikipunga High School who completed the survey for secondary schools.
Savings Working Group fully endorses Financial Education
The Savings Working Group released its final report on 2 February 2011 and fully endorsed the recommendations made by Young Enterprise Trust in the area of financial literacy...
"Xero signs as new major sponsor"
Young Enterprise Trust is pleased to announce that online software provider Xero has become a major sponsor. Xero has signed on as a Silver Sponsor and has committed to increase further funding every year over a four year period. For more details go to Media Release
