Youth are our future

The Western Bay of Plenty Economic Development Agency, Priority One, through the INSTEP Programme is supporting Western Bay of Plenty secondary schools to encourage students to think intelligently about design by interlinking innovation and sustainability in the design of a product or service.

$1000 for the winning student(s)

The grand prize of $1000 which goes to the winning student(s) is available through the generosity of the business community, in particular Page Macrae Engineering.

Growing the right skills

The YiA competition was the brainchild of local industry needing a skilled workforce for the future. Let's get proactive and use our expertise through innovation and sustainability to make us globally competitive for the future.

Developing our region

Innovation, Creativity, Sustainability, Communication and Research are the skills we will need to make our region globally competitive in a increasingly competitive and fast moving world.