The Young Enterprise Scheme is designed to help students establish and operate a business while fulfilling their curriculum requirements. This initiative aims to motivate and encourage students by framing the activity as a competition, starting at the regional level and progressing to a national competition. Over 4000 students across the country participate in the scheme each year and compete for the Regional prizes and then hopefully move on to compete for the National prizes. Students are required to complete 5 challenges across the year, consisting of marketing, a pitch about their business, promotion, sales and a final review about how their business went. The six highest scoring teams across these 5 challenges are selected as the Regional Finalists who compete via a pitch for the Company of the Year for West Auckland, the winner goes to represent West Auckland at the National Finals in Wellington.

This year Waitākere College had a record number of groups in the Regional Finals with 4 of the 6 places going to our students. What an amazing effort from our budding entrepreneurs!

Congratulations to these teams and we wish them all the best for the finals on Monday:

RA Hair (Year 13) - Leah McGrath and Anna Pham

Cocoa Bliss (Year 12) - Vanessa Lim and Darcey Naylor

Z3ESTY (Year 12) - Cailey Caitor, Lani Fihaki, Maia Li and Hiria Oltaches

ADTODA (Year 12) - Ameera Okso, Aditi Kumar, Dehlia Purdeu and Drishti Ram

We also have the following groups who have been informed that they have already won a Regional Award for the Young Enterprise Scheme and will be attending the event on Monday to find out which award they have achieved, they are:

Cocoa Bliss (Year 12) - Vanessa Lim and Darcey Naylor

Z3ESTY (Year 12) - Cailey Caitor, Lani Fihaki, Maia Li and Hiria Oltaches

Crystal Inc (Year 13) - Abby Borja, Alyanna Galpo, Jordan Osborne-O'Donnell, No Deih Thangman, Juan Villarreal and Zyra Viloria

Solana (Year 13) - Raman Kaur, Alyssa Legge-Murray, Jayda Heremaia and Natalie Tepu

Congratulations to these teams and all the students who have been a part of the Young Enterprise Scheme and Business Studies this year.

Thank you again for the amazing support from our school community. We will keep you up to date with the results of the Regional Awards.