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WESTERN NEWS Latest Canterbury news at starnews.co.nz Thursday <strong>July</strong> 8 <strong>2021</strong> 5 Electronic business card takes off • By Bea Gooding A GROUP of young enterprise students weren’t expecting their final year of high school to include running a successful business. Halswell local Jayden Rosanowski is among three Cashmere High School students who launched the STAP Card last year. Jayden, along with Felix Strahl and Emilia Dybka, came up with the initiative. They now have a clientele list that includes real estate agents and police detectives. They even won two Young Enterprise Scheme regional excellence awards for sustainability and finance while developing partnerships with universities and billboard companies. And the year 13 students did it all before they even left high school. “It’s taken off heaps, we’re getting interest from all over the country. We’ve got some big customers now, like Harcourts real estate agents and a police detective,” said Jayden, STAP’s chief executive. “It’s amazing to watch the business take off and to be a part of the ride,” said production manager, Felix. STAP Card is designed to replace paper business cards altogether after the students discovered more than six million trees are cut down each year to produce 100 billion disposable cards worldwide. The reusable business card enables employees to electronically share their contact details with others by utilising QR codes and NFC chips located inside most new mobile phones. All a client needed to do was tap the card on their device or scan the code for the information to pop up on their screen. In line with the company ethos of sustainability, STAP also partnered with non-profit organisation One Tree Planted by planting a tree for every card sold. The initiative kicked-off when the business studies students, who were in year 12 at the time, unleashed their inner entrepreneur by taking part in the Lion Foundation Young Enterprise Scheme. It is a chance for young people to experience the start-up world by running a real business, with products and services brought to the market by the students themselves. As STAP was only meant to be a school project, Felix said its ENTREPRENEUR: Cashmere High School year 13 students Jayden Rosanowski (left) and Felix Strahl won regional Young Enterprise Awards for their STAP Card creation. PHOTO: GEOFF SLOAN ongoing success was unexpected, but keeping up with growing demand came at a cost. Making 100 cards in the last six months for more than 80 companies meant investing in a new $3500 printer funded by company sales and part-time jobs. This sped up production from three to four cards an hour to 100 in four hours, and now, it can all be done from a dedicated office that the school let them borrow during business studies classes and after hours. Mural design wanted by Templeton RSA • By Fiona Ellis THE TEMPLETON RSA is on the hunt for someone to design a mural to brighten its main entrance wall. President Brendan Muir said the 2.5m x 4.5m wall was currently “blank, boring and uninviting.” The RSA was running a competition to find a winning design, with entries due by mid September. “Hopefully, we’ll get locals to get involved, so they can take ownership of it,” Muir said. “We know there is someone who has a great idea to fill in this space for us. “We’ll stick [the entries] up and have a vote as a club on what’s suitable.” The winner would receive a $100 prize, and plenty of people would see their design. Traffic passing by the Kirk Rd building included parents making school runs and the bus from Rolleston to Christchurch, he said. The RSA occupied the building since 1964, but the entrance wall had always been plain. Some colour would make it more welcoming, he said. The design should also pay tribute to those who had served in the armed forces.
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