Photos: Student businesses shine at YES Trade Fair

If there was prize for best outfits it would have gone to Tauraroa Area School’s Thicc Fellas milkshake makers (from left, Corin Parsons, 16, Finn Innes, 17, and Jordan Williams, 16). Photo / Peter de Graaf

A girls' surf school, an automatic letterbox light, natural mosquito repellent, cream puffs and tyre swings were the big winners at last Saturday's Young Enterprise Scheme Trade Fair in Kerikeri. Held at the Old Packhouse Market and sponsored by lines company Top Energy, the annual trade fair is a chance for Northland's young entrepreneurs to test their ideas and sales skills on the public. Companies were judged on stall presentation, money handling and especially students' willingness to engage with customers and talk up their products. Fifty student businesses took part this year.

RESULTS

Best presentation
1 Sky's Surf School (Sky Gundry, Kerikeri High School).
2 InSight (Jacob Fewtrell, Kerikeri High School).
3 JNK Mozzy Repellent (Joyce-Anne Kapa, Koby Kelleher and Nadia Watene, Te Kura Kaupapa Māori o Kaikohe).

Customer choice
1 InSight (Jacob Fewtrell, Kerikeri High School)
2 Cream Team (Rain Lambert, Te Kura Kaupapa Māori o Kaikohe)
3 Tyred Up (Jake Tubbs, Jessica Hone and Jayden Boughey, Kaitaia College)

Te Kura Kaupapa Māori o Kaikohe business JNK Mozzy Repellent (Joyce-Anne Kapa, Nadia Watene and Koby Kelleher) placed third overall in the YES Trade Fair. Photo / Sean McConnachie

Rain Lambert, 15, of Te Kura Kaupapa Māori o Kaikohe, did a roaring trade in chocolate-coated cream puffs made to a family recipe. Photo / Peter de Graaf

The Cream Team's Rain Lambert, 15, of Te Kura Kaupapa Māori o Kaikohe, with another happy customer. Photo / Peter de Graaf

Kaylis Rapatini, 17, of Te Kura Kaupapa Māori o Kaikohe, runs a business selling hīnaki or eel traps. Photo / Peter de Graaf

If there was prize for best outfits it would have gone to Tauraroa Area School's Thicc Fellas milkshake makers (from left, Corin Parsons, 16, Finn Innes, 17, and Jordan Williams, 16).

Alyssa Stewart, 18, of Hiwa-i-Te-Rangi Teen Parent Unit in Kaikohe, makes post-natal packs with a range of treats, pamper products, self-care products and practical items such as maternity pads and a breast pump. Photo / Peter de Graaf

Juddy Brown, 21, of Hiwa-i-Te-Rangi Teen Parent Unit, makes netball power packs. Photo / Peter de Graaf

Petra Kameta, 17, of Kaikohe’s Hiwa-i-Te-Rangi Teen Parent Unit, produces korowai hoodie for pēpē (babies). Photo / Peter de Graaf

Kaitaia College's Tyred Up (Jake Tubbs, 18, Jessica Hone, 17, and Jayden Boughey, 17) turns used tyres into children's swings. Photo / Peter de Graaf

Kerikeri High School student Holly Thackwray, 17, of Mahinepua, has created a a free diet and fitness app. Photo / Peter de Graaf

Pipi Johnson-Phillips, 16, of Kerikeri, has published a book promoting New Zealand Sign Language and the marine environment. Photo / Peter de Graaf

Kaitaia College company Marihi Taonga (from left, Ati Ioane, 17, Te Kao, and Krystelle Davis, 17, Kaitaia) make taonga from pounamu offcuts and copper and silver wire. Photo / Peter de Graaf

MC Toast Te Kani interviews Whangārei 16-year-olds Mitchell Furlong, left, and Kennedy Gates of Pompallier College mānuka honey business Just Honey. Photo / Peter de Graaf

Kamo High School 17-year-olds Mya Kereopa and Kahn Tangihaere-Brom publish bilingual books for neurodiverse children with autism and intellectual disabilities. Photo / Peter de Graaf

Kerikeri High student Sky Gundry, of Sky's Surf School, took out first place in the Young Enterprise Scheme Trade Fair. Photo / Peter de Graaf

Sky's Surf School founder Sky Gundry, 17, of Kerikeri, has a laugh with MC Toast Te Kani. Photo / Peter de Graaf

InSight founder Jacob Fewtrell, 17, of Kerikeri High School, won the customer choice award for his automated letterbox light invention. Photo / Peter de Graaf

Bream Bay College business Near Dreamz Clothing rings up another sale. Photo / Peter de Graaf

Bream Bay College business Near Dreamz Clothing (from left, Zona Wassell, 16, Satori Smith, 14, Caitlin Agustin, 14, and Chassedy Agustin, 16) sell tie-dyed T-shirts. Photo / Peter de Graaf

Whangārei Girls High School students Melanie He, 18, and Sreyleak Lim, 20, produce hand-made soap bars. Photo / Peter de Graaf

Students of Te Kāpehu Whetū in Whangārei (from left, Arwyn Henare, 16, Kudzai Chiondere, 17, and Arii Martin-Murray, 16) have created a business making rongoā Māori lollies. Photo / Peter de Graaf

William Southall, 18, and Anny Catto-Smith, 19, of Tauraroa Area School business Precious Memories Gift Boxes. Photo / Peter de Graaf

Tauraroa Area School company Pure Lures (from left, Joel Marshall, 17, Ellie Murray, 16, and Natasha Aitchison-Burgess, 16) is developing biodegradable fishing lures. Photo / Peter de Graaf

Sky Gundry, 17, of Sky's Surf School, accepts the top prize from Top Energy's Belinda Peddie. Photo / Peter de Graaf