Kiwi students win challenge

Four New Zealand students scooped the first and second places in the FedEx Junior Achievement award at the International Trade Challenge in Singapore last week.

Paul Minors of Rangitoto College and Charles Slogrove of Macleans College, both 18, won $4000 for their unique interpretation of this year's challenge: to come up with a market entry strategy for exporting carpets to Egypt. Talman Madsen of Long Bay College and Aimee Groom of Taradale College, Napier, took second place.

This was the first year New Zealand had competed at the event, which involved 42 contestants from seven Asian-Pacific countries.