THE NSW STATE AWARDS DINNER 2008
The year end NSW State Awards Dinner welcomed 340 guests to celebrate the achievements of all teams and recognize those who had excelled in particular areas.
"The judges were impressed with all the submissions for Awards but particularly impressed with the standard from the tertiary companies this year. The companies results showed that the innovative ideas had been matched with enthusiasm and hard work "said Helen Smith NSW State Manager.
Channel 10 commentator Greg Rust hosted the evening formalities before DJ Zee cranked up the music.
Thank you to the judges at all our Award sponsor companies and congratulations to Award winners
Click here to view full list of winners & photos from the NSW State Awards 2008
THE SYDNEY METROPOLITAN TRADE EXPO 2008
Everyone was pumped for the Trade Expo at Castle Towers Shopping Centre and lots of energy was expended to maximize sales. The photo evidence indicates everyone had a lot of fun with innovative marketing and merchandising ploys to attract customer's attention. Loved the funky monkey!
Click here to view the 2008 Sydney Metropolitan Trade Expo photos
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The Sydney Metropolitan Trade Expo is Young Achievement Australia NSW next major event. The Trade Expo is not only a great sales opportunity; it gives members of your company an opportunity to meet with representatives from other Young Achievement Australia companies.
Company sites will be in a prominent section of the centre giving access to thousands of shoppers. What an excellent opportunity to raise your profit margins, and gain hands on retail experience.
Click here to download 2008 Sydney Metropolitan Trade Expo Registration Form
EVENTS A GREAT SUCCESS!
Management Skills Day Seminar What a great day at UTS Broadway Campus with almost 400 students registered and seven great speakers to inspire us all.
We were welcomed to the UTS campus by Deputy Vice Chancellor Dr Rosalind Dubs.
Thankyou to our industry experts for their thought provoking presentations
Sujit Dey - JP Morgan Australia - Finance
Matthew Loggie - SGE Analytical Science - Manufacturing
Manda Trautwein - VMC Global - Managing Director / Company Secretary
David Penglase - Sales Coach Central.com - Sales / Marketing
Cassie Soady - DP World Australia - Human Resources
Siobhan Spoljaric - NRMA Motoring and Services - Environmental Sustainability
John Ridge - ACS Foundation - Information Technology
Naheen Mahbub, 2007 Castle Towers NSW Secondary Business Person of the Year and Vatsala Deora, CPA Australia NSW Tertiary Business Person of the Year 2007 both attended. Vatsala, spoke of her YAA experience as a member of the UTS group Voyage and of the benefits both personal and professional, that she took from her participation in the Business Skills Program.
We finished the day putting the theory into practice by designing some "interesting" new products that are yet to be tested in the market!!!
Click here to view photographs from Management Skills Day 2008
June 2008 Program Update
1682 NSW students from 187 schools, colleges and universities registered for YAA Business Skills Programs™ this year and the majority are now actively involved in setting up their company. We have 9 tertiary and 22 secondary programs in the metropolitan area this year and 8 secondary programs in the North Coast New England region giving a total of 39 programs.
Young Achievement Australia is most grateful to the Champions of our Business Skills Program™, our mentors. These generous people give freely of their time, knowledge and expertise to assist students through this program. We value their contribution and thank them sincerely for their commitment.
We welcome back and sincerely thank many of our sponsors again this year and a special welcome to the new sponsors who have committed to delivering this program to our budding entrepreneurs.
And the winners are!The Sydney and Northern NSW Award Winners were announced on Friday 9 November 2007 at a glittering gala event hosted at the Bayview Boulevard Sydney. Over 300 guests attended and a great time was had by all. Thanks to our MC Michael McQueen who was the NSW Business Person of the Year in 1998.
View the full list of award winners and photographs here.
IN YA FACE - Winners of the 2007 Secondary Schools UTS Best Use of IT Award. This award was sponsored by the UTS Bachelor of Information Technology Co-operative Scholarship Program.
In need of some inspiration? Check out this video produced by In Ya Face, who were sponsored by Canterbury Hurlstone Park RSL Club. The video is a .wma file and will open in Windows Media Player.
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