Mobile Phone Pxt cards take oral prize

Electronic business cards you can ‘pxt’ have proven a winning formula for a Westlake Boys’ High School senior student group.

 

Cyan – one of the school’s Lion Foundation Young Enterprise Scheme companies for 2008 – has won this week’s oral presentation competitions at North Harbour Stadium.

 

Managing director Peter Kim (17) says the company, which designs and electronically sends business cards via cellphone, offers value for money, flexibility, convenience and cutting-edge technology to clients.

 

“Your business card should be as mobile as your mobile phone – and it should never run out,” he says. “Where does the future lie? In emails, online banking, and now electronic business cards.”

 

Cyan – owned and operated by Hugo Kan, Ben Tan, Sam Holmes, Michael Zheng, Jason Zwi and Peter Kim – received $150 first prize from YES organiser Enterprise North Shore towards business costs. 

 

Kingsway School’s Sauce Pump, which markets plastic tops and dispensers for tomato sauce cans, clinched second prize, with Omnicorp from Long Bay College claiming third prize for its sun-sense beaded bracelets.

 

EVENTurous from Orewa College won the Benefitz business card competition, collecting a prize of 250 business cards.

 

Enterprise North Shore’s board chairman Ian Watson says the standard of Lion Foundation Young Enterprise Scheme companies has been exemplary this year.

 

“Each year they get better and better, and in five years’ time the standard will be phenomenal. These students are innovators of top quality,” he says.

 

The next hurdle for the YES companies is a trade fair on August 17, with the finals held on October 16 at North Harbour Stadium.