Hunterville pupil wins Colour Your Classroom competition

A pupil from Hunterville School was the winner of the Colour Your Classroom competition. Photo / File

A student from Hunterville School is the latest winner of the Colour Your Classroom competition.

Nearly 800 entries were received from across New Zealand, with students explaining, in 300 words or fewer, what they would invent to make life easier for people.

Overall winner, 12-year-old Hunterville School pupil Jordan Hughes, came up with a stellar invention - a health monitor that would be implanted in the wrist to measure levels of the likes of sugar and oxygen, with results sent to a database via Bluetooth.

"This chip could help keep you fit and healthy by making sure you have the right amount of things in your blood and body," Jordan wrote in his entry.

"The chip could give warnings about leukaemia, hematologic diseases, stroke and heart attack."

The four runners-up were Lorisha Lila Kahn (Clendon Park School), Caitlin Mackay (Fairhaven School), Phoebe Wylie (Opaki School) and Amanda MacArthur (St Patrick's School).

Colour Your Classroom judge Mark Norling, from Sharpie, was impressed by the creativity and thought that had gone into all the entries he read.

"The ideas expressed by these students went far beyond what I'd anticipated.

"It bodes well for our future that we're seeing such innovative thinking from some of the country's youngest students."

Colour Your Classroom launched in 2014, and is supported by stationery and office supplier OfficeMax, who this year presented each of the five winning students with a Sharpie and Paper Mate special edition colouring kit, valued at $44.99.