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A North Shore based company comprising four Westlake Boys’ High School students has taken Top Honours in the 2008 Lion Foundation Young Enterprise Scheme (YES).
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Cyan, who in October won the North Shore Company of the Year, accompanied Enterprise North Shore’s Ngaio Merrick and Lisa Ford to Wellington last week to present to a Dragon’s Den of top New Zealand business people. At the National Awards dinner that evening, they were awarded two National Prizes.
Cyan, comprised of six young men, has developed a pxt-based business card enabling electronic business card transactions between mobile phones. This eliminates the requirement to print cards along with the need to remember to carry them between business-peoples’ meetings. In addition, the electronic business cards are facilitated by an award winning website. So good is the website that Movac (investors) met with the young company after the National Awards to investigate working with Cyan further.
Cyan was presented with the Renaissance Award for Innovation in Information Communication Technologies, ahead of all the 647 companies in the 2008 Young Enterprise Scheme. This prestigious award provided them with $1,000 for Westlake Boys High School, $1,000 for themselves and a brand new Generation 2 IPOD Nano each. In addition, Cyan was The Todd Corporation second runner up for their presentation in Wellington, beating all but two of the 29 companies competing.
Cyan were one of only two companies to win double awards in Wellington. “They presented with flair, passion and a little humour to outclass the competition” said Ngaio Merrick, YES coordinator for Enterprise North Shore. Through this process, the Cyan team has developed invaluable skills in budgeting, planning, interpersonal relations, decision making, reporting, communications, risk management and teamwork which will no doubt aid them in their individual pursuits both at school and beyond.
Enterprise North Shore extends their congratulations to Cyan, and their commendable contribution in bringing kudos to both themselves, Westlake Boys High School and the North Shore community.
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