Intergen young achievers 2015
Congratulations to the top-performing students in INFO 101 who have picked up Intergen Young Achiever awards.
Congratulations to the top-performing students in a first-year Information Systems course at Victoria Business School, who have picked up Intergen Young Achiever awards.
The Intergen Young Achiever Awards are aimed at acknowledging the success of the three best performing students in INFO101: Foundations of Information Systems.
With 1300 students enrolled each year, this paper was singled out in particular for the award as the mandatory first-year course for undergraduate students across a wide variety of disciplines, including commerce, information technology and law.
Top students are selected based on strong academic performance and active engagement with the programme.
First place in the Intergen Young Achiever awards went to Reuben Cox, who received a Microsoft Surface 3. Second place prize winners, Hadassah France and Jack Clarke, received Microsoft Lumia Windows Phones.
Intergen’s Director of Solutions and Services, Emma Barrett, says Intergen and Victoria University have a close longstanding relationship, and the award is testimony to this.
"It is a real honour for Intergen to be able to sponsor the Intergen Young Achiever awards.
"As an employer, we strongly believe it is our role to foster up-and-coming IT talent, to encourage future generations to consider careers in IT and to help showcase what a career in the technology world can look like."
In sponsoring these awards, Intergen hopes to further its reputation for introducing promising young professionals to the growing New Zealand market. The past decade has seen Intergen bring more than 100 graduates into the ICT industry, and these awards will go a long way in attracting more prospective applicants for the future.
Pak Yoong, Professor of Information Systems at the School of Information Management, endorsed Intergen's involvement in the continuing development of budding IT professionals through practice-based lectures and the Young Achievers Awards.
"For the INFO 101 students, this series of engagements not only inspire their career aspirations but also provide valuable practical insights into the realities of IT practice."