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News & Events
Hear about all the latest updates from the YiA team right here, including news, events we hold throughout the year, and even insider tips on how to take your entry to the next level. To subscribe to our email newsletter, add your details using the form below.
Events
August 17, 2019
YiA Innovation Showcase
The Young Innovator Awards (YiA) Innovation Showcase is all about celebrating the YiA shortlisted finalists' ideas and helping us pick a winner for the YiA People’s Choice Awards. This is your chance to have your say and head along to Bayfair Shopping Centre to vote for your favourite innovation.
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March 8, 2019
YiA Website gets a refresh...
Sam Boggiss, a 2011 YiA Junior Category winner has been working in the Priority One office during his summer holidays before returning to Dunedin to finish his final year studying medicine at the University of Otago.
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September 5, 2018
YiA Winners of 2018
The winners of the 2018 Young Innovator Awards have been announced tonight at a ceremony celebrating the most innovative young minds in the Western Bay of Plenty. The winners were selected from a record breaking 550 entries, from which 79 finalists were chosen.
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August 16, 2018
Help us choose a People's Choice Award Winner at the Innovation Showcase
The YiA 2018 shortlisted finalists have been chosen – well done finalists! Our three judges decide who wins the YiA Intermediate, Junior and Senior first, second and third place prizes, but we need YOUR help finding our fan favourites across all three categories.
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July 25, 2018
YiA 2018 Innovation Forum: Screens, Machines and Virtual Reality Dreams
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June 26, 2018
Local Innovator Carol Ward Combines Innovation with Sustainability at Zespri
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June 12, 2018
Four Tips for Communicating Your Innovation
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June 6, 2018
Take the Bus and Get Struck by a $10,000 Winning Idea
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May 29, 2018
Check Out the Duo Combining Innovation and Ocean Sustainability
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May 23, 2018
Turning a Personal Challenge into a Winning Innovation
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May 17, 2018
Get Inspired by our Second Local Young Innovator: Zak Meyers
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May 15, 2018
Jiwi's Top Tips and the Big Bang Challenge Workshop
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May 10, 2018
Meet our First Local Young Innovator – Adam Macfarlane-Hill
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April 10, 2018
YiA 2018 Launched with an Awesome Evening Under the Stars
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February 15, 2018
The YiA 2017 Internships Rocked!
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March 8, 2019
YiA Website gets a refresh...
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September 5, 2018
YiA Winners of 2018
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August 16, 2018
Help us choose a People's Choice Award Winner at the Innovation Showcase
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July 25, 2018
YiA 2018 Innovation Forum: Screens, Machines and Virtual Reality Dreams
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June 26, 2018
Local Innovator Carol Ward Combines Innovation with Sustainability at Zespri
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June 6, 2018
Take the Bus and Get Struck by a $10,000 Winning Idea
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May 29, 2018
Check Out the Duo Combining Innovation and Ocean Sustainability
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May 23, 2018
Turning a Personal Challenge into a Winning Innovation
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May 17, 2018
Get Inspired by our Second Local Young Innovator: Zak Meyers
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May 10, 2018
Meet our First Local Young Innovator – Adam Macfarlane-Hill
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April 10, 2018
YiA 2018 Launched with an Awesome Evening Under the Stars
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February 15, 2018
The YiA 2017 Internships Rocked!
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November 29, 2017
YiA Winners' $1,000 Adventure to Rotorua
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November 13, 2017
Memorable Night at the Westpac Awards
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July 19, 2017
YiA Hits Record Number of Entries
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June 16, 2017
Lydia Gilmour Wrapped Up the Competition with Swift Wrap
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June 5, 2017
Wade Flanagan: Tauranga Boy Cooking Up a Storm in Nike's Innovation Kitchen
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May 21, 2017
Want to Meet a Rocket Scientist? No, seriously...
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May 18, 2017
YiA Awards "Marvellous Machine" 2017
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May 10, 2017
How Did a Load of Rubbish Win One Student a $12,000 YiA Scholarship?
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April 20, 2017
Record Crowds for YiA Launch
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February 27, 2017
Young Innovators Win BOP Internships
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May 17, 2016
Spotlight on 2015 Winners
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May 10, 2016
A Special Innovation Delivery
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May 3, 2016
YiA Paper Plane Makeathon
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March 27, 2016
YiA Launch Breakfast: Creating Tomorrow's Innovators
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March 24, 2016
Real Problems Help Promote Innovation
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August 17, 2019
YiA Innovation Showcase
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August 10, 2017
YiA Forum 2017: Innovation Through the Eyes of Athletes, Astronauts and Pirates
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July 31, 2017
YiA Innovation Showcase Celebrates our Shortlisters
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April 18, 2016
YiA Make-a-thon: Make a Paper Plane and Win
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March 15, 2016
YiA Launch Breakfast 2016
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June 12, 2018
Four Tips for Communicating Your Innovation
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May 15, 2018
Jiwi's Top Tips and the Big Bang Challenge Workshop
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June 16, 2017
Have You Thought About Your YiA Video Yet?
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June 5, 2017
One Month to Go... Get Cracking!
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June 1, 2017
Want to know what the YiA Judges are looking for?
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May 23, 2017
Jiwi's Top Machine Building Tips
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April 24, 2017
5 Reasons Why Entering YiA Rocks
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