Nelson Marlborough Young Enterprise 2022 Highlights

Nelson Marlborough Young Enterprise Scheme 2022 Highlights

The Young Enterprise Scheme (YES) grew out of an initiative started by the New Zealand Chambers of Commerce back in the late 1970s and aims to inspire young people to discover their potential in business and in life.

YES is an opportunity for students to unleash their inner entrepreneur and experience the start-up world first-hand. It is an experiential programme where students set up and run a real business. Each YES company creates their own product or service and brings this to market.

There are four YES Challenges that each company needs to complete.

Challenge 1 – Validation

Challenge 2 – The mid Year Pitch

Challenge 3 – Sales & Promotion

Challenge 4 – Annual Review

Students compete regionally and nationally in these challenges.

Why do YES? There are many different reasons why students choose YES.

To get work-ready and worldready!

By setting up and running their own business they will develop a range of important skills that will help in their careers and in life including problem solving, resilience, teamwork, leadership, creative thinking, decision-making and networking.

Students want to make a difference in their community, New Zealand and the world?

Every year, more and more students use their YES business to make a positive social or environmental change, mixing profit with purpose.

There are great prizes to be won!

There is over $20,000 in national prize money to be won and plenty of other prizes available in each region. Some ambitious students are highly motivated to win a Regional Award, or be the Regional Champion or the National YES Company of the Year!

Throughout the programme students engage with the local business community. Coaches, mentors, advisors and suppliers all contribute to the learning experience, providing out of class learnings.

All students that complete YES (Challenges 1-4) will receive the YES micro-credential on their NZQA Record of Achievement.

And if your school offers YES as part of a timetabled Business Studies course, they will be able to gain NCEA achievement standards at either level 2 or level 3.

YES 2022

4,687 secondary school students participated in The Lion Foundation Young Enterprise Scheme nationally, setting up over 1,000 companies between them.

Nelson Marlborough

230 Year 12 and 13 students in the top of the south (Te Tauihu) participated, including students from;

 Waimea College

 Nayland College

 Nelson College

 Nelson College for Girls

 Richmond Veiw

 Marlborough Girls College

“Inspiring young people to discover their potential in business & in life”

What is YES? What is YES? YES

YESChallenges Challenges

The Mid Year Pitch

The mid year pitch is the second challenge for YES students, after the Validation Challenge where they will have received feedback from their target market.

By the time students get to The Mid Year Pitch they will have created a prototype of their product and created a 5-minute presentation and pitch their business idea to a panel of four judges to gain feedback to further hone their business.

This is great to help with the development of their YES business, students are asked to outline their plans for marketing, sales, production, and finance and to deliver a professional, persuasive pitch by engaging with the judges and using well-designed visual aids.

YES Market Day

The YES Market Day is held in Term 3 and provides an opportunity for students to sell their goods, promote services, continue to gather market research and also have a fun experience getting to know students from other schools who are participating in the program. The group market day is run in the lead up to the students Sales and Marketing Challenges where they need to demonstrate different promotional methods. To receive top marks, they will use several promotional methods and demonstrate several different sales channels, outline what they learnt, how effective these were and how they could be improved.

YES Market Day

Regional Award Winners

Best Annual Review Award was won by Olivae from Waimea College

Olivae from Waimea College, Lani Adamson, Esther Gould, Alysha Mutch, Olivia Parsons, Lily-Rose Phorn, Lily-Anne Watts, Jessica York. Olivae won the Annual Review Award.

Deliese MacKay from CAANZ presented the award, CAANZ are National YES sponsors. Olivae scored 95% for their annual review which nationally is outstanding, they got 100% for their Financial, Marketing, Production and Sustainability areas! An outstanding result!

Love What You Do, Environmental Award won by Kai Clips from Nelson College for Girls

Jason Triwahyudi from Go with Tourism who are a YES National sponsor, presented Kai Clips from Nelson College for Girls the Environmental Award.

Thanks to judges, Sarah Derecourt Mediaworks, Chris Williams Burger Culture, Kylie Reeves OneFortyOne, and Cam Burns, Shuttlerock. Credit to Tim Cuff for the photos.

The Connect and Collaborate Award won by Speak it Up from Nelson College

Melissa Munro from NRDA who are YES regional sponsors, presented Jack Franklin, Austin Candlish, Ollie Martin of Nelson College with the Connect and Collaborate Award.

Congratulations to the YES company Rizer created by Tony Kim, Amos Lian, Andrew Maddock, Reuben Scragg from Nayland College. Thanks to Jeff Lockhart, Ministry of Education for presenting the Award.

Venus Sood, a Chamber of Commerce Board Member presented Only Popcorn with the Innovation Award.

Congratulations, Analise Neame, Lucy Bell, Seth Buckley, Tayte Hunwick, Sven Teece from Nayland College.

The Aim for Awesome, Creative Award won by Rizer from Nayland College

The Innovation Award won by Only Popcorn from Nayland College

Regional Final Event

At our regional final event the YES judges watched, assessed and deliberated, ultimately announcing the 2022 Regional Champions as Olivea, from Waimea College. Olivae created a loose-leaf, caffeine-free olive tea out of locally sourced leaves. The compound, oleuropein found in olive leaves has been scientifically proven to have many health benefits including strengthening your immune system, relieving cold symptoms, lowering blood sugar and preventing heart disease. The team’s olive leaves were handpicked at a grove in Upper Moutere.

Regional Winners Olivae from Waimea College

They then produced three teas, two blended (olive & boysenberry, olive & lime) plus a pure, olive leaf tea. The delicious, fruity ingredients came courtesy of Little Beauties, who supplied a combination of freeze-dried and dehydrated fruit.

Awards judge, Cam Burns from Shuttlerock says, “The winning team Olivae created a unique and innovative tea brand that is well differentiated in the multi-billion dollar global tea market. The customer-centric product has strong branding, clear health benefits, and ultimately tastes great.

The overall business model presented and the progress made to date are a testament to the group’s teamwork, resilience, and ability to embrace change.” Chris Williams of Burger Culture says, “It was a really hard conclusion to come to this year as the competition was so good. My vote eventually went to Olivae in the end as I just felt it was the most rounded, polished, and complete business proposal. All the ākonga should be very proud of the mahi they had done, and I wish Olivae all the best in the finals. Kia kaha, kia māia, kia manawanui.”

Judge, Sarah Derecourt of Mediaworks says, “Olivae scored well right across the board, however, I was particularly impressed by their understanding of the marketing mix. Olivae garnered lashings of free press and were able to grasp the relative strengths of different media, using each to their best. Something even seasoned marketers can struggle to do well.”

The Food Factory having foodgrade kitchens is integral to the production process. Lou Smith General Manager of The Food Factory says, “’This programme empowers and inspires these young adults to truly discover their potential. The Food Factory is incredibly proud to play a big part in this journey”.

Olivae took home a trophy and each student in the team was awarded a $1000 dollar Massey University scholarship. Plus, Waimea College won “The NMIT/ Te Pukenga Winning School Award” this is a $5000 scholarship from NMIT/ Te Pukenga. Wayne Jackson from NMIT/Te Pukenga presented Waimea College Principal, Scott Haines, the prize. Haines says he’s very proud of the team

and the college’s business studies department which supports and mentors all the students “Olivae have worked consistently hard throughout the year, so it was a proud moment watching them present their pitch to the judges at the regional final, and go on to win.”

The Chamber’s Trina Zimmerman is the Young Enterprise Regional Coordinator and has observed the team in action throughout the year. “This group of determined young women created an innovative business that is simply a class act, they stood out from the start of the year and consistently demonstrated the ability to face challenges head on and go above and beyond what was required in creating and building their business skills.

They have produced a delicious product and a business that is profitable and scalable.”

Young Enterprise Head, Ian Musson, was impressed with the local teams that took part in the YES programme this year.

“The community should be proud of the young entrepreneurial talent being developed in the Nelson Tasman region. These young people are unconventional thinkers which is exactly what the world needs, and although only one winner could be chosen, each team presented incredibly well and have set a great pace for next year.”

YES National Finals

Olivae, along with their teacher Naomi Chapman and hundreds of other students and supporters attended the Young Enterprise Scheme National Awards 2022 at Te Papa in Wellington. Although Olivae was not up for a national award they were treated to an amazing experience and were able to join in the celebration of their counterparts from across the motu and be inspired by what was achieved. As year 12 students Olivae intend to carry on their business next year, attending the awards will put them in good stead for having another crack at the top placings in 2023.

4687 secondary school students participated in YES in 2022, setting up over 1000 companies between them. The awards night celebrated 28 of these companies.

Sole Haircare was crowned National YES Company of the Year, the students from Otago were awarded $3000, a $5000 scholarship for each company member and their school was awarded $2000.

Sole produced a unique all-natural colour matching dry shampoo in two tones which enhances sun protection to the scalp. Judges were impressed with their well-rehearsed pitch and their success in marketing their product through social media, in particular their incredible reach on TikTok.

Second place was Upcycled Plastics who have built and developed their own large-scale production line that can recycle used plastic into a wide array of products. The company has recycled 160kg of plastic to date, which is over 3500 milk bottles.

Third was Sky’s Surf School which was created to deliver innovative female specific surf lessons creating a community of females who grow to feel confident and empowered both in and out of the water.

YES Feeder Programs Te Tauihu Innovation Challenges

Year 10 students in our region were provided an amazing learning opportunity to develop their innovative skills and learn about local industries during two YES events run in both Nelson and Marlborough.

The YES Innovation Challenge is a fast paced, one day event where students are given a real-world problem from local industry, they brainstorm a solution in teams, quickly create a basic prototype, then pitch to judges.

In Nelson, MPI sponsored the event bringing scientists and aquaculture experts on board to mentor and inform the students for the day. Stephanie Hopkins from Aquaculture New Zealand, Bailey Lovett and Jess Ericson from Cawthron Institute and Carol Jakob, Sarah Cumming and Finn Sumner from MPI were amazing.

Mark Unwin from Marlborough City Council was the driving force to bring the event to the Marlborough region and brought in local businesses Sanford, Indevin and Autoline. Students were mentored by Morgan Burkett Sanford Innovation Project Manager, Jason Cook Indevin Production Winemaker and Autoline engineer Hari Bejishkumar.

The highlights of the student feedback included how much they enjoyed meeting new people, working in teams and with the mentors, problem solving and learning about the different industries. The teachers loved the format saying, “This exercise built on students' knowledge of science, technology, commerce and social studies from the classroom and then added industry knowledge and expertise which is a priceless experience for students”.

YES Feeder Programs Extra Extreme Experiences

YES students can apply to take part in several extra programs throughout the year two of our local students took part in these trips designed to extend students.

WaimeaCollegestudentAbbeyScott and Rore Morgan from Nelson College applied to attended EIA in 2022 and their applications were successful!

WaimeaCollegestudentAbbeyScott and Rore Morgan from Nelson College applied to attended EIA in 2022 and their applications were successful!

Abbey said 'The EIA weekend was an awesome opportunity that really broadened my business knowledge as well as getting the chance to meet new people and make connections with them along with mentorsandhostcompanies.’

Abbey said 'The EIA weekend was an awesome opportunity that really broadened my business knowledge as well as getting the chance to meet new people and make connections with them along with mentorsandhostcompanies.’

All students flights, accommodation andmeals are paid for thanks to our YES sponsor, New Zealand Trade & Enterprise.

All students flights, accommodation and meals are paid for thanks to our YES sponsor, New Zealand Trade & Enterprise.

A big thank you to all who volunteered their time in some way to Help We couldn’t deliver YES in 2022 without you!

Aaron Marshall Mentor

Alison Cary Mentor

Andrew Jeffries BrianFM

Anne Michelle Hair Free Electrolysis

Ashlin Redpath Ipiphany

Astiana Trouland Hauora Coaching

Bernie Schluter OneFortyOne - Judge

Bill Rainey FairWay Resolution

Cam Burns ShuttleRock - Judge

Catherine van der Meulen THiNK Business Services

Catherine Courtney Outta The Box

Chris Williams Burger Culture - Judge

Chris Hall Business box - Mentor

David Insull Mentor

Gordon Munro Peritia Limited

Graeme Rickard Skillplas Ltd

Greg Chapman Viridian Glass - Mentor

Hannah Tunstall In a Nutshell

Helen Blom Mentor

Hon Nicky Wagner Judge

Ian Mccomb Small Time Developments

James Kirner Oxygen8

Jason Monopoli Orange Dog - Mentor

Jehan Casinader Mental Health Speaker

John Hopkins BSPNZ

Juliet Robinson Quinovic Nelson

Justin Hall MicroChannel

Kamni Raju-Russell Bras And Briefs Expert

Kenn Butler Elysian Freedom Ltd

Kylie Matthews Awwa - Mentor

Kylie Reeves OneFortyOne - Judge

Lester Binns Judge

Liz Webb Practics

Lorna Harrison Kaiteriteri Recreation Reserve

Lou Smith Pics Peanut Butter

Louis Picot Proper Crisps - Mentor

Luke Koefoed New Ideas Coach

Mark Coghill OnefortyOne - Judge

Mark Unwin MDC - Judge

Mathew Pottinger One Giant Leap Ltd.

Matt Squire Cairn Interactive

Miles Clifford Matthews Eyewear Eyecare

Milo Coltren Skipper Training

Otto Lijzenga Life Time

Paul Miller Kernohan Engineering Ltd

Peter Mayes Mentor

Rebecca Mason The Kamahi Trust - Coach

Reni Gargiulo Kiwi Kai Nelson Ltd

Richard Brown Braided River Facilitating

Richard Percy TNL International - Mentor

Rosa Tovey BDO Marlborough

Sacha MacDonald Rezource

Sandra Crone Chamber of Commerce

Sarah Derecourt MediaWorks - Judge

Scott Miller BNZ Small Business

Simon Farrar Max Marketing

Stephen Caunter ANZ

Tanya McMurtrie Craigs Investment Partners

Timothy Hawthorne Top of the South Film Makers

Tony Katavich Mentor

Todd Starr In a Nutshell - Advisor

Tracy Atkin Marlborough Angel Investors

Tristan Wastney Little Beauties

Wendy Strawbridge Health Action Trust - Advisor

Thanks to our National & Regional Sponsors