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5.10.2021

17.9.2021

Young Mackenzie inventors may hold answer to common farming frustration

Year 11 and 12 students Amy Hay, 16, Hamish Ryall, 16, and Luke Jordan, 15, invented the Flexi Mat Frostease, a device that can be inserted into water troughs to prevent them from freezing over, as part of the Young Enterprise Scheme (Yes).

18.11.2021

15.9.2021

Teens breaking mental health stigma for young people

Freyberg High School students Hayley Searle, 17, Jemma Grant, 17, and Brie McConachy, 18, have started a small business, called Impact, focused on the importance of mental health in teenagers and young adults.

21.10.2021

27.8.2021

Young Taranaki entrepreneur's lockdown made 'special' with national win

The 16-year-old entrepreneur entered her second business, The Together Collective, in the Young Enterprise Scheme (Yes), and took out two of its five categories – while up against 4700 students.

5.10.2021

25.8.2021

Young Enterprise Scheme: Sacred Heart Girls' College student receives award

The Together Collective, a YES company producing limited-edition clothing using student artwork, has received first place nationally for both her YES Validation and Promotion submissions.

18.11.2021

18.8.2021

Student businesses shine at YES Trade Fair

Held at the Old Packhouse Market and sponsored by lines company Top Energy, the annual trade fair is a chance for Northland's young entrepreneurs to test their ideas and sales skills on the public.

5.10.2021

18.8.2021

Young Enterprise Celebrates 20 Years At Hawke’s Bay Farmers’ Market

60 teams from 11 schools around Hawke’s Bay brought their innovative products and services to the market, joined by hundreds of proud, local supporters.

5.10.2021

18.8.2021

Environmental challenge spurs young entrepreneurs’ creative thinking

“Rangatahi are our future leaders and innovators. Having the opportunity to engage and support their creativity through an environmentally-themed challenge in Entrepreneurs in Action was a real privilege," says Anne Haira, MfE Deputy Secretary.

5.10.2021

13.8.2021

Young Enterprise students prepare to sell their products and services at Hawke's Bay Famers' Market

As part of the Young Enterprise Scheme (YES), senior secondary students set up and run their own small enterprise, supported by teachers, schools, and local organisations including a YES Regional Coordinator from the HB Chamber of Commerce, a business mentor, and their local business community.

18.11.2021

10.8.2021

Food Fight: Business-savvy Cashmere students' card game takes off

Food Fight is a fun, educational card game created by Cashmere High School year 13 students Oakley Inkersell, Rosa Kelly, Aljaž Smrekar and Jack Carran in response to child obesity in New Zealand.

18.11.2021

10.8.2021

Making a difference

This inspired her to start the Good Start Foundation a year ago to help students who do so much for their community but don’t have the financial security and means to study further.

18.11.2021

10.8.2021

Trust shows path to unusual careers

The trust, which co-ordinates a range of initiatives and has teaching mentors and programme directors around the country, held its first Te Pae Tawhiti careers summit in Napier last Friday.

5.10.2021

10.8.2021

Breakdown drives pupils to write safety book

James Hargest College pupils Eden Selman, Harriet Gilder, Stellar Waipouri and Carissa MacLennan noticed that like them, many teenagers did not know how to act in tricky situations such as changing tyres, dealing with a flat battery or getting a car out of mud.

18.11.2021

10.8.2021

Student entrepreneurs get hands-on sales experience at Farmers Market

Students from four of the region’s 12 Young Enterprise Scheme (YES) businesses sold their products at the Timaru Artisan Farmers Market.

5.10.2021

27.7.2021

Exceptional Northlander continues success story with new award

With his latest award the 23-year old social entrepreneur from the Far North is perhaps one step closer to his goal.

5.10.2021

23.7.2021

A pot pourri of new student businesses

It will be the first public outing for students taking part in the this year's Young Enterprise Scheme(YES), in which budding entrepreneurs create an innovative product or service, market it to the public, and end the year with a profit or loss.

18.11.2021

23.7.2021

Latin America the focus of student group

Young Enterprise Scheme (YES) in partnership with Victoria University’s Latin America Centre of Asia-Pacific Excellence (LatAm CAPE) have led a group of 16 years 12 and 13 pupils from across New Zealand.

5.10.2021

22.7.2021

Congratulations to all the 2021 Alumni Award winners!

2021 Award winners

5.10.2021

20.7.2021

Dunedin high school pupils invent finger-saving wedge with an edge

The high number of people, especially small children, who slam their fingers in doors is "out of this world", says Kavanagh College agribusiness pupil and Under the Door Enterprises chief executive Hayley Anderson.

5.10.2021

20.7.2021

These Tauranga high school students are turning non-recyclable plastic bottle tops into earrings

In most main centres of New Zealand, or anywhere in the country really where there is kerbside recycling, milk bottles are generally recyclable, but the plastic tops are not. The same goes for soft drink lids, or any other small plastic caps.

18.11.2021

20.7.2021

From selling roadside lemonade to running computer business

Ryan, 15, built his first computer when he was 12 with the help of a YouTube video. Now 15, he has built more than 100 PCs and his part-time business is proving fruitful.

18.11.2021

20.7.2021

Mental health advocate Ezekiel Raui wins top enterprise award

The awards, held on Thursday night, celebrated the achievements of about 100,000 students who have completed The Lion Foundation Young Enterprise Scheme, an experiential learning programme, which helps students set up and run a business through the course of the school year.

18.11.2021

20.7.2021

Students turn old high school desks into portable vege gardens

After seeing disused school desks gathering dust, a group of 16-year-olds put their thinking caps on and decided to turn them into portable vegetable gardens.

5.10.2021

14.7.2021

New kids on the block's woolly solution

The Woolly Wedge was created by Under the Door Enterprises, a group of 10 students from Kavanagh College in Dunedin, as part of a Young Enterprise Scheme (YES) project.

18.11.2021

13.7.2021

Teen shares Māori culture through reusable water bottles

After noticing a lack of mātauranga Māori (Māori knowledge) in the marketing of New Zealand bottled water and lack of interest from bottling companies to incorporate it, the 17-year-old has taken things into his own hands.

5.10.2021

13.7.2021

Geraldine High School students' colourful enterprise

As part of the Youth Enterprise Scheme (YES) Year 13 students Sophie Worner,17, Marcus Furrer, 17, and Sam Morrison, 18, set up the company, Aorangi Colours.

5.10.2021

12.7.2021

Market offers young entrepreneurs chance to kickstart business

The Twilight Market held in Downtown will be the mall’s third market, which marks winter in the central city.

18.11.2021

6.7.2021

Computer Prodigy Flourishing In Young Enterprise Scheme

Clark is just one of the students who will be showcasing their businesses at UCOL’s Young Enterprise Market Day on Thursday 8 July.

5.10.2021

6.7.2021

$1m pitch competition targets budding entrepreneurs under 30

A pitch competition opens today aimed at budding entrepreneurs under 30.

5.10.2021

6.7.2021

'Interest from all over the country': High school students' e-business cards take off

But since Cashmere High School students Jayden Rosanowski, Felix Strahl and Emilia Dybka launched their STAP Card last year, the clientele list has grown to include real estate agents and police detectives.

5.10.2021

5.7.2021

Successful New Plymouth 16-year-old starts second business

Abbie Wood has started The Together Collective and prints budding artists’ pieces on shirts then sells them – giving the students both a cut from the profits and a confidence boost.

18.11.2021

5.7.2021

Nelson teen starts charity to give kids sporting chance

“It’s great”, the 17-year-old said, beaming as he watched children bouncing balls, shooting hoops and running around.

18.11.2021

21.6.2021

St Mary's students tackle sustainability through microgreens

The five year 12 students, Antonia Gray, Rae Lyons, Amie Whitney, Rachael Bakhos and Hannah McLellan, have become Sprout It, a young enterprise team bringing microgreen growing kits to the market.

18.11.2021

21.6.2021

Challenge immerses pupils

The Otago Chamber of Commerce, in conjunction with the Young Enterprise Scheme (YES), is hosting the Otepoti Rangatahi Business Challenge at the University of Otago’s Business School this week.

5.10.2021

21.6.2021

Delivering for Henderson-Massey

Henderson-Massey Local Board has agreed to its work programme for the financial year 2021-22, committing to funding projects that benefit the community across a variety of areas including the environment, culture and community assets.

18.11.2021

21.6.2021

Leading businessman Sir Eion Edgar dies of cancer, aged 76

He also played a critical role in the development and funding of Forsyth Barr Stadium and the Edgar Sports Centre in Dunedin – the largest single-building indoor sports arena in the Southern Hemisphere.

5.10.2021

11.6.2021

Company with a cause

Earlier this year, students Miah Watson, Sivera Peneha and Erika McKee set up Maka, the name they have given their business, to teach more Kiwis te reo Maori.

5.10.2021

10.6.2021

Taradale High School YES students, Piper Body, design body wash tablets

The group is taking part in the annual nationwide YES (Young Enterprise Scheme) programme, which gives young entrepreneurs, as part of their level two economics course, the opportunity to start and run their own businesses.

5.10.2021

10.6.2021

Young Taranaki entrepreneurs receive recognition

Participants in the Young Enterprise Scheme (YES), a programme where students learn about aspects of business through running their own small enterprise, met with Kuriger as she sponsors the Enhancing Rural Communities Award.

5.10.2021

10.6.2021

Students create walking art with a social message

The group of six Year 13 students are participating in the Young Enterprise Scheme, which encourages students to work in groups to create a product and come up with a business plan to produce and sell it.

5.10.2021

31.5.2021

Teacher relates thoughts on scheme

The national Young Enterprise Scheme marked its 40th anniversary recently with a celebration held at Te Papa in Wellington.

5.10.2021

24.5.2021

Pacific Dreams - Pacific themed home decor

The Lion Foundation Young Enterprise Scheme (YES) is an opportunity for students to unleash their inner entrepreneur and experience the start-up world first-hand.

5.10.2021

24.5.2021

Helping hand for South’s start-ups

"I was always trying to hustle some cash somehow or somewhere."

5.10.2021

14.5.2021

Pleased by role in start-ups

Accountant Jamie Reidie has been appointed the Dunedin City Council representative on the Start-up Dunedin board.

5.10.2021

29.4.2021

RAD Solution To Accelerating Digital Equity

RAD is urgently seeking donations of second-hand laptops and funds to meet growing community need

5.10.2021

18.2.2021

Business coach says more engagement needed between needed schools and business community

More calls this morning to teach kids some real world skills in school.

5.10.2021

22.1.2021

YES Kaiārahi ako / Teaching mentors 2021

5.10.2021

13.1.2021

Timaru students win awards at national Young Enterprise competition

A team of student entrepreneurs whose eco-friendly lip balm is available from 18 Canterbury retailers are using their prize-winnings at the national Young Enterprise Scheme awards to expand into the rest of the South Island.

5.10.2021

12.1.2021

Young CEO’s culture forefront of mind

With a background built on his Samoan and Tokelauan values and morals, and faith encouraged by the Catholic church and his parents, 17-year-old Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Malaga Aukusotino mixes service with leadership and entrepreneurship.

5.10.2021

11.1.2021

The end of polystyrene fish bins? Havelock North student's sustainable solution

Eighteen-year-old Sam Wixon has been hard at work for the past two years developing a sustainable alternative as part of his school business programme.

5.10.2021

16.12.2020

Young entrepreneurs spot on with acne treatment

Zit-face has become an obsolete insult at Bayfield High School.

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Young Mackenzie inventors may hold answer to common farming frustration

Teens breaking mental health stigma for young people

Young Taranaki entrepreneur's lockdown made 'special' with national win

Young Enterprise Scheme: Sacred Heart Girls' College student receives award

Student businesses shine at YES Trade Fair

Young Enterprise Celebrates 20 Years At Hawke’s Bay Farmers’ Market

Environmental challenge spurs young entrepreneurs’ creative thinking

Young Enterprise students prepare to sell their products and services at Hawke's Bay Famers' Market

Food Fight: Business-savvy Cashmere students' card game takes off

Making a difference

Trust shows path to unusual careers

Breakdown drives pupils to write safety book

Student entrepreneurs get hands-on sales experience at Farmers Market

Exceptional Northlander continues success story with new award

A pot pourri of new student businesses

Latin America the focus of student group

Congratulations to all the 2021 Alumni Award winners!

Dunedin high school pupils invent finger-saving wedge with an edge

These Tauranga high school students are turning non-recyclable plastic bottle tops into earrings

From selling roadside lemonade to running computer business

Mental health advocate Ezekiel Raui wins top enterprise award

Students turn old high school desks into portable vege gardens

New kids on the block's woolly solution

Teen shares Māori culture through reusable water bottles

Geraldine High School students' colourful enterprise

Market offers young entrepreneurs chance to kickstart business

Computer Prodigy Flourishing In Young Enterprise Scheme

$1m pitch competition targets budding entrepreneurs under 30

'Interest from all over the country': High school students' e-business cards take off

Successful New Plymouth 16-year-old starts second business

Nelson teen starts charity to give kids sporting chance

St Mary's students tackle sustainability through microgreens

Challenge immerses pupils

Delivering for Henderson-Massey

Leading businessman Sir Eion Edgar dies of cancer, aged 76

Company with a cause

Taradale High School YES students, Piper Body, design body wash tablets

Young Taranaki entrepreneurs receive recognition

Students create walking art with a social message

Teacher relates thoughts on scheme

Pacific Dreams - Pacific themed home decor

Helping hand for South’s start-ups

Pleased by role in start-ups

RAD Solution To Accelerating Digital Equity

Business coach says more engagement needed between needed schools and business community

YES Kaiārahi ako / Teaching mentors 2021

Timaru students win awards at national Young Enterprise competition

Young CEO’s culture forefront of mind

The end of polystyrene fish bins? Havelock North student's sustainable solution

Young entrepreneurs spot on with acne treatment

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