Nor'West News: July 17, 2018

14 Tuesday July 17 2018
Latest Christchurch news at www.star.kiwi
• By Sophie Cornish
AN ASPIRING entrepreneur
from St Andrew’s College will
travel to Brazil on a business
trip after his team won a Young
Enterprise
competition.
Year 13 student
Yonni Kepes and
his team took out
the Young Enterprise
competition,
Entrepreneurs In
Action, in Wellington
and will
travel to Brazil
in December to
represent New
Zealand.
While there,
the students
will meet with
businesses, learn
about the business industry in
Brazil and meet and work with
young Brazilian entrepreneurs.
“We will solve various business
challenges with the Brazilian
entrepreneurs and aim to
understand the relationship between
Kiwi and Brazilian businesses
better,” said Yonni.
Throughout the three-day
SCHOOLS
St Andrew’s student off
to Brazil after winning
business competition
Yonni Kepes
competition, Yonni was in a
team mentored by one of 10 host
companies and took part in two
business challenges.
“It was exciting to come together
with 80 other
young entrepreneurs
from around
New Zealand and
solve business challenges
. . . it has given
me an understanding
of the bigger picture
of doing business.”
Young Enterprise
competition included
the Genesis Energy
challenge which was
based around creating
an innovative
product for Genesis.
Then the New
Zealand Trade and
Enterprise international trade
challenge required the team to
formulate a strategy designed
to support NZTE in creating a
presence for New Zealand businesses
in Latin America.
As well as a trip to Brazil,
Yonni was also awarded a $7000
scholarship to Massey University
next year.
Musician makes national choir
RANGI RURU Girls’ School
student Holly Evans has taken
her musical success international,
travelling to Asia with the New
Zealand Secondary Students’
Choir.
The national choir for 13 to
18-year-olds, gathers the country’s
best young voices to learn
from some of New Zealand’s
top vocal teachers, in a two-year
tenure.
Holly successfully auditioned at
the end of 2016.
The choir gathered in Auckland
for rehearsals and a farewell concern
on July 7.
Then, they travelled to Hong
Kong to work with the Wah Yan
College Kowloon Boys’ Choir on
a commission from David
Hamilton, supported by the
Creative New Zealand Asia/
New Zealand Co-commissioning
Fund.
The choir previously met
the Wah Yan College Choir at
the 2016 International Choral
Kathaumixw, where they won
the choir of the world award,
while being the guest choir.
The Hong Kong Baptist University
Choir will also join the choir
for the international premier of
the commission.
Currently, the choir is attending
the 2018 “Belt and Road”
World Choir Festival in Hong
Kong, until Thursday.
Here they will perform several
concerts with other visiting
choirs, and lead workshops in
New Zealand music.
Then the group will head to
Shanghai for three days and a
performance at New Zealand
Central (the public space for the
consulate general for New Zealand
in Shanghai) and work with
local choirs including the Vienna
Boys’ Choir.
Holly said she is most looking
forward to connecting, through a
NOR’WEST NEWS
VOICE:
Rangi Ruru
Girls’ School
year 13
student
Holly Evans
is currently
travelling
around
Asia with
the New
Zealand
Secondary
Students’
Choir.
mutual love of music, with singers,
choirs and choral directors
from all over the world.
The year 13 student has had
a busy year, playing a lead role
as Maria in the school’s sell-out
production of West Side Story
earlier in May.
“I haven’t been further than Indonesia
before so I really have no
idea what to expect and I’m really
excited by that,” she said.
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