February 2015
While most of us spent the summer break enjoying the beach, last year's winners of the Young Innovator Award spent it coming up with ways to warn the public of the dangerous rips that plague our local waters.
Three Otumoetai College students, Hayden Christie, Frano Gabric, and Lachlan Farron, all 15, entered the Young Innovator Awards with their Swim Safe app. The idea was for an app linked to a cellphone's camera that could be used to identify rip currents. Read more
This article is reproduced from the Bay of Plenty Times by David Porter
Otumoetai College students Frano Gabric, Lachlan Farron and Hayden Christie made a presentation last Friday on the progress they had made in learning how to research and market their award-winning swim safe app during a two-week business internship.
The students received the internship for winning the 2014 Young Innovator Awards (YiA ) Supreme prize. Read more
You are invited to a rare opportunity to hear New Zealand entrepreneur, author and investor, Derek Handley, speak at an event being held as follows:
When: 5pm for 5.30pm, Thursday 12 February 2015Where: ASB Arena Suites, Truman Lane, Mount Maunganui Read more
