Year 13 Kaitaia College student Nina Griffiths has no doubt about how she will spend her working life, plans that have taken further shape following her success at the Young Enterprise Trust's annual Enterprise in Action event at Massey University in Auckland.
Nina is one of six secondary students who have been selected to travel to California, originally next month but now more likely in October.
At the weekend competition 80 students work in teams of eight to complete two challenges, then an individual challenge. Nina's team's challenges were 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's response to that challenge was a vaporiser that could be used to vaccinate beehives against the likes of varroa.
Nina's individual idea was to counter expectations of falling visitor numbers from Britain (following the UK's exit from the EU and a weakening pound) by linking Canterbury University with British institutions for an international study, incorporating Matariki, to establish an international market for 'southern skies' tourism.
