Southern View: November 04, 2021

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Cashmere High wins big
Anniversary
• By John Cosgrove
ENTERPRISING STUDENTS
from Cashmere High School used
their business acumen to win
their final at the Young Enterprise
Scheme Canterbury regional
awards, and also scooped many
excellence awards.
Food Fight – Jack Carran,
Oakley Inkersell, Aljaz Smrekar
and Rosa Kelly – were the Canterbury
South regional winners
with an educational project
aimed at tackling obesity issues
in youth.
Their winning project equips
school children with knowledge
about their food and nutrition
via a fun educational card game,
which also incorporates spelling,
reading and Te Reo Māori.
The idea was inspired by a
member of the team who had
struggled with weight issues
when he was younger.
Hosted at the Ara Institute of
Canterbury’s Christchurch campus,
12 secondary school teams
covering both north and south
Canterbury came in one after
the other for a day of ‘Dragons
Den’ style pitches.
Organisers said Food Fight
impressed the panel of industryconnected
judges with their
entrepreneurial aptitude.
Watching on via a live streaming
link were 183 teams of
students, teachers, families and
friends.
THE WINNING TEAM: The Food Fight team (from left)
Aljaz Smrekar (18), Rosa Kelly (18) and Oakley Inkersell (18).
Fellow entrepreneur Jack Carran (18) was unavailable for
the photo.
PHOTO CASHMERE HIGH SCHOOL ​
Cashmere High School teams
also picked up several excellence
awards: Upcycle Tiedowns
grabbed the Ara Institute of
Canterbury YES regional excellence
award for finance.
The Powell Fenwick regional
excellence award for sustainability
was won by Buddy Bites,
and STAP Ltd won the Cyclone
regional award for enterprising
technology.
And Danger Danger won the
Rotary Club of Christchurch
Sunrise regional excellence
award for social enterprise, as
well as the Baldasso Cortese
Noordanus regional excellence
award for innovation.
The students main teacher
Matt Benassi said: “This year
the teams at Cashmere have
exemplified what it means to be
an entrepreneur.
“It has been a challenging year,
but that didn’t get in the way of
any of the student businesses.”
He said all of them aimed to
help solve a problem, whether it
be educating students about nutrition
or dangerous situations
or solving a sustainability issue.
“They have all challenged
themselves and they are proud
to be part of the businesses they
have started,” he said.
of Huntsbury
celebrated
• By John Cosgrove
A YEAR after the Huntsbury
centenary celebrations were
held, the event organisers will
be conducting a
plaque unveiling
this weekend to
commemorate
the anniversary
of the settlement
of Huntsbury.
Organising
David
Brayton
committee
member David
Brayton said
he had found
a suitable rock after wandering
around the hills for about six
months looking for one.
“It took about six people to
move it into place outside the
Huntsbury community centre
and then we had a plaque
designed and made,” he said.
Brayton said the committee
has asked Spreydon-Cashmere
Community Board chairwoman
Karolin Potter to unveil the
plaque during a neighbourhood
gathering at the Huntsbury
IN PLACE: A plaque
to commemorate the
settlement of Huntsbury will
be unveiled this Saturday.
community centre this Saturday
night at 7.30pm.
He said residents on the hill
combined to “make all this
happen” and the idea for the
plaque came to him after the city
council had allowed him access
to a large stack of historical data
on the suburb.
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