It aims to motivate young people to engage in positive and healthy lifestyles while providing an opportunity to be part of a professional performing arts event that will provide a lasting memory.
Stage Challenge provides a first class professional event for young people to showcase their skills in dance, drama and design. This first-class experience carries key messages of attending school regularly, goal setting, staying fit and healthy, and having fun without tobacco, alcohol or other drugs.
Event manager Sarah-Jane Phillips said the best part about the event was it gave students the chance to experience the "natural high you get when performing onstage in front of large audiences".
"Stage Challenge offers students an opportunity to make positive decisions in several areas of their lives and allows them to have fun with their friends while doing so."
Local students, teachers and parents have been working for months to prepare performances, nail choreography and erect stage designs.
The competition also has scope for teachers to use elements for NCEA assessments in subjects such as dance, drama, woodwork, art and textiles.
Image 1 of 2: Lakes High students practise for next week's Stage Challenge.
Photos from 2014
Stage Challenge producer Helen Sjoquist said she was delighted with how the event had grown over the past 23 years. "More than 250,000 students have been part of the event and I am proud to witness and hear about their accomplishments ..."
