Global Challenge forms
 | The 2008 Global Enterprise Challenge will be held in Auckland on the North Shore . It will be held at the campus of Massey University in Albany, and will begin officially on the Saturday morning 21st June and conclude on Monday afternoon 23rd June. |
Eighty Lion Foundation Young Enterprise Scheme students will compete over two days for the right to represent New Zealand in the international 24 hour competition.
Forty students will be selected as hosts from the North Shore and Central Auckland, and another forty will be selected from through New Zealand to travel to Auckland to join the event.
Southland is invited to select 2 Lion Foundation Young Enterprise students to represent as at the Global Enterprise Challenge. The students will join the 80 others selected from throughout the country to take part in this exciting event.
At the event students will be divided into ten teams of eight, and each team will be allocated a corporate host who will guide and mentor the team over the course of the programme.
On Saturday 21st the teams will walk through the business planning process by undertaking a New Zealand Challenge. This will enable them to get to know each other, to assess their strengths and to practice the problem solving approach.
Each team will make a three minute presentation to a panel of judges and, later on that Monday morning, the winning team will represent New Zealand in the international competition.The international challenge will be videoed in from Australia at 1pm on Sunday 22nd and the teams will have until midday on Monday 23rd to come up with a business plan that solves the problem, and a prototype of their solution.
The Global Enterprise Challenge will conclude on the late afternoon of Monday 23rd.
Download here ...the 2008 Global Enterprise Challenge Programme.
This will give you an overview of the order of proceedings and of the calibre of the guests who will be involved.
Down Load here.... the Student Application Form.
To be returned to Rhonda Bragg fax: 03-2187927
or droped in to the Chamber office cr leven & Esk st
no later than 5:00pm 8th May
Down load here....a School Endorsement (Principal) Form
Which is to accompany every individual application above.
Down load here.... a Parent Consent Form.
Which again is a compulsory part of the application process and is to be forwarded with the above.
Enterprise New Zealand Trust will make travel arrangements to get Students to and from the Auckland airport. While they are in Auckland the out of town students will be billeted with North Shore and Auckland Central students and we expect that they will be picked up at the airport by their host families on the Friday.
On the Monday they will, after the final Farewell function, be transported back to the bus station and airport by bus to catch their respective buses or planes home.
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