Nationals

Kia Ora,

Samantha here. Just to let you know we are travelling to Wellington tomorrow. Alicia and I are presenting our product to the judges at 12:50 on Wednesday so I am certainly looking foward to that. When we get back, I will let you know how we get on!

Kei Te Pai

Good News...Again

Hello there,

We have just found out that we are the REGIONAL WINNERS!!! So we get to go to Nationals on the 31st of October in Wellington. Our hard work has definitely paid off. I would like to thank everyone who has helped us throughout this year. I would like to congradulate the other teams for their outstanding performance in the competition. I would also like to thank Mrs Holloway for the late night and hard work that she has put into our company.

Annual Report

Over the last week of school for term 3, we spent many late nights completing our annual report. Things that needed to go into it was the Managing Directors report, the Marketing and Sales, the Production and also the Financial reports for the year. Thank goodness that we sold over 100 DVD's by the end of the term which is a great turnout.

Good News

Kia Ora,

We have great news...our product is finaly ready. If you would like to order a copy, just go to our website and copy the order form on screen.

Here are our contact details:

Kei Te Pāi
Opotiki College
PO Box 146
Opotiki

Phone: 07 315 7022
Fax: 07 315 5639
Email: keitepai@opotikicol.school.nz

Community Health Provider Hui

We received this exciting email yesterday.

"I read about your product earlier on in the month and remember thinking 'how awesome' for our rangatahi so I thought I'd take this opportunity to congratulate you all!

We are having a Community Health Provider Hui in October (3/4 at Kutarere Marae) where all our affiliates come together for either training workshops and/or information sharing. We will have a mix of doctors, nurses, community workers and rongoa Maori people. We think that your DVD project is innovative and exciting and we'd like to invite you and your team to present it to our hui if possible? Lots of our health professionals in the NZ Workforce are from another country so it could become a valuable resource locally, regionally and nationally."

Leanne Morehu
Manager
Te Ao Hou
Primary Health Organisation

Blast Conference!

What a Blast! Regan, Marketing Director here to tell you about the Blast Conference for 2007.

The conference was hosted by former TV presenter Susan Wood. The speakers included Michael Hill, Don Ha, the million dollar horse man, John Hart and many more… We were greatly inspired by their success stories and what they had to do to achieve their ultimate vision. They are true

entrepreneurs. Don Ha set us a challenge, if we made 1 million dollars in ten years he would give us a further 10% - talk about motivating! Guess who Samantha and I shook hands with?! Yup, you guessed it. The Prime Minister Helen Clark herself. It was a very nerve-racking experience meeting all these inspirational people but an experience I shall never forget. I hope to attend next year's Blast Conference. Thanks to the Blast coordinators!

Kia Ora

Regan and I attended the 2007 Blast Conference in Rotorua. It was the most inspirational event that I have ever, ever, ever attended in my life. In fact, it was so inspiring that I now believe that I can achieve whatever I want, whenever I want. Michael Hill, the Michael Hill Jeweller man, made me see that anything is possible, even if you are not the brightest spark on this planet. People believed that he would not come to anything important; especially his uncle. Look at him today; a very large chain of jewellery shops, a famous private golf course and he has become a household name. The next speaker was Don Ha...the man who bought that gorgeous two million dollar horse. Wow! he was hilarious. Even though he had the whole language barrier to get over, he made a name for himself in the real estate business! The other speakers which were very inspirational to me were Diane Foreman, The "Croucher Beer" guys, and the man from Bacardi who bought 42 Below.

The most informative speaker, in my opinion, was John Hart, the All Black's coach and the former Warriors coach. Being the Managing Director he taught me so much that a leader must know. His passion for rugby is enormous; the way he recalled his happy memories was amazing. His success is all because of his leadership qualities and his passion for the number one sport in New Zealand.

One speaker that completely caught me off guard was Geoff Knight, the Opera Singer who used to be a bikie. His journey to becoming what he is today is definitely inspiring. Basically, he showed me that you may as well pursue your dreams even if you believe you cannot make it for you may be wrong. You are your worst critic, especially when it is something you are very passionate about. Now, I am thinking of pursuing a career in the music industry for I believe I can make it. Thank you Geoff Knight for the amazing recount of your amazing experiences.

One more thing I must add is the fact that the Prime Minister, Helen Clark, spoke at the conference. I must say, she was a delight. I couldn't believe that I was in the same room as her. Regan and I waited patiently for her to come out of the hall so we could get her to keep our badge and get her to take a photo with it on. I basically became starstruck when I was about to speak. "Hello, I am Samantha Webb from Kei Te Pai. We were wondering if you could wear this badge and let us take a photo of you?" Then she said "Why sure... why not (I think)." Then I said, "That was a great speech by the way",... then everything was completely blank! I got to shake her hand and get a photo with her! We also got a photo with most of the other speakers too. It's a good way to market our product that's for sure!

Ohope Trade Fair

It was an early start, Saturday 4th of August, for us Kei Te Pai members, all awake, dressed and eagerly waiting at 6 am in the morning for our voyage to the Ohope Markets, where we were to participate in the official YES Trade Fair. We were the only YES group outside on this cold rainy day but we were prepared for the worst. Our stall looked awesome we had our product well presented and created the true Marae enviroment (we made our gazebo appear as a Marae, we even allowed a neigbouring stall move in when the rain came down. True Whanau Whanau).

Matthew and Alicia were dressed in traditional Kapa Haka costumes/piupius and bodice to resemble Tama our cartoon animation. We spent three hours split into pairs taking on different roles eg. walking around, approaching and selling our product to random people at the Market. "I was so nervous, talking to complete strangers but I had such pride in our product it was bearable" ,"It was a lot of fun, and definately worth doing again." Images will be available at a later date also we do not know the results of the Trade Fair but will keep you posted.