Nina Griffiths' passion for investigating ways business can be developed in recognition of environmental, cultural and social values has won her an overseas adventure.
Nina, a Year 13 student at Kaitaia College, is one of six secondary students who have been selected to travel to California in the United States, following her success at the Young Enterprise Trust's annual Enterprise in Action event at Massey University in Auckland.
At the competition, 80 students worked in teams of eight to complete two challenges, then an individual challenge.
Nina's team was to come up with a means of introducing nutrition into an existing or new product, and to develop a strategy to introduce an agritech product that played to New Zealand's strengths into the American market.
The team response to the challenge was a vaporiser used to vaccinate beehives against the likes of varroa.