For our Year 10’s, it was down to business when they recently participated in the Year 10 Entrepreneurship Challenge with students from Diocesan School.
With this multi-day experiential programme, students are challenged to develop essential business skills and entrepreneurial thinking through creating a new business idea.
Ten teams competed, with five students in each mixed team. After a briefing, they were sent off to start thinking and to get creative! Some fantastic ideas emerged—innovative, different, and highly imaginative.
On the last day of the Challenge, it was pitch time when students faced the judges for a ‘Dragon’s Den'- style presentation at Dilworth’s Junior Campus.
Trying to wow the judges with their innovative thinking throughout, our teams used mood boards and technology, and some teams even dressed to impress!
There was a range of business ideas
- Hydro Brush
- Kart Smart
- FaunaTrace
- Hot 2 Go
- Adapta Pillow
- Temp Towel
- Tri-Trash
- Nutri-Scan
- Sight Signs
- Portapod
Our judges had a great mix of entrepreneurial and business skills and included personnel from the Young Enterprise organisation.
Dilworth Old Boy judges Jean-Luc Ellis and Kellen Dudley-Rode, young business entrepreneurs themselves, worked alongside representatives from the competition’s sponsor, ICBC NZ: Karen Lu, Deputy Head of the Corporate and institutional Banking Department, and Chris Setiboudi, Associate Director of Corporate and Institutional Banking. Both Karen and Chris brought strong business acumen to the judging line-up.
The 2024 Year 10 Entrepreneurship Challenge winner was Temp Towel - a self-heating/cooling towel that heats or cools you to your perfect temperature. The ICBC judges said, “We were quite impressed by the young student’s creativity. They came up with some excellent ideas that were related to problem solving, identifying the needs in our daily life. We also enjoyed the fun and passionate way they presented their products to us”.
This year, we welcomed ICBC* as a corporate sponsor for this Entrepreneurial Business Challenge.
A big thank you to ICBC and everyone supporting this exciting initiative that continues elevating financial literacy at Dilworth.
*Being a subsidiary of the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China, ICBC New Zealand obtained a banking license from the Reserve Bank of New Zealand on November 19, 2013, becoming the first approved Chinese bank in New Zealand. Leveraging ICBC's leading market position, we offer a comprehensive range of financial products and services, including account management, remittance, international settlement, trade finance, and mortgage loans.”