A group of keen MGC Students recently took part in the Innovation Challenge in Marlborough.

Pairs of MGC students were combined with other schools around Marlborough to compete in different challenges. There were 3 industry representatives including Autoline, Sanford Bioactive and Indevin, who proposed a problem that the groups needed to understand, come up with potential solutions and develop into a prototype. They then presented their ideas and prototype to the industry experts who awarded the top group with a gift card each.

Each winning group contained students from MGC! Ka pai te mahi!

• Zoe Baker and Amber Henry won the Sanford Bioactive Challenge
• Nicola Liu and Arlo (Aika) Mojzisek won the Indevin Challenge
• Shalia Narayan and Ella-Jane Partridge won the Autoline Challenge

Some of our students shared their feedback on the day with us:

"I had a great time at the Innovation Marlborough, I enjoyed learning about local industries and learning design skills and critical thinking." - Freya Grage

"Shalia and I really enjoyed working as a team and collaborating with new people to solve a problem, it was good team skills and experience. Thank you" - Ella-Jane Partridge and Shalia Narayan, Autoline Challenge winners