The St Thomas team Tribal - won the Supreme Regional Award for 2017 and will go to Wellington on 6 December to complete for the National Company of the Year Award.

Tribal - The Team

Tim Marshall (Yr13), Leon Barrowcliffe (Yr12), Benjamin O'Connell (Yr13), George Khella (Yr13), Hamish Brodie (Yr13) , Patrick Elia (Yr12), Tommy Taualai (Yr12), Casper Fui (Yr12), Jade Uliano (Yr12) and Asoono Puni (Yr12)

Individual Awards for Directors Related to Social Enterprise

Hamish Simpson - Christchurch City Council Community Award for enterprise and community (2016);

Ben O'Connell and Tim Marshall - first runner up Selwyn District Council Award for Business (2016);

Tim Marshall - Member of Team New Zealand (2016) Represented New Zealand enterprise in the USA (September);

Tim Marshall (Yr13) Youth Leader (2016) Education for Sustainability Youth Leadership Award. A biennial award is jointly sponsored by Environment Canterbury and Te Runanga o Ngai

Hamish Brodie and Tim Marshall - CFS Scholarship of $500 in partnership with AMP, along with 6 business mentoring sessions.

Tim Marshall – Selected as one of 10 Impact Fellows for Singularity University (2017) , a Silicon Valley based university based at NASA. Worth $3000-4,000.

Tim Marshall has also won the School of Business & Law - Enterprise Scholarship for 2016. Worth around $6,000.00.

Collective Team Awards

Tribal Directors attended the Canterbury Regional Award Ceremony at the University of Canterbury. 52 Canterbury teams participated in enterprise this year with over 300 students.

The St Thomas team Tribal - won the Supreme Regional Award for 2017 and will go to Wellington on 6 December to complete for the National Company of the Year Award. This will be presented by the Governor General at Te Papa on the evening of the 6 December at a gala dinner attended by national politicians, business leaders and government agency CEO’s.

Each student director has received a $1,000 fees bursary to Massey University to be used at either their Auckland or Wellington campuses.

Tribal is the only Canterbury team to be awarded a National Award – which will be announced on the night, but it will come with multi-thousand-dollar prize money. In previous years we have won up to three National Awards – but now we only know for sure we have received at least one of the possible eight awards.