19 October 2009 And the winners are?

Cashmere High School Year 12 economics and accounting students are the first winners of Lincoln University’s newly introduced Commerce Cup.

The award is a new one put up by Lincoln University for competition among Year 12 commerce students at Christchurch secondary schools. It matches a Biology Cup which Lincoln University provides in the secondary science area.

Twelve schools participated in the inaugural Commerce Cup competition, which took the form of a quiz held in the Lincoln University Union Building. The Quiz Master was Murray Clark, Senior Lecturer in Accounting, and teachers from most of the participating schools also attended.

Entering the spirit of the occasion, staff from Cashmere High and Middleton Grange formed a teachers’ team called “Cashmidd” but they were ruled ineligible for the cup as they were not year 12 students!

“The aim of the competition and the cup is to encourage senior secondary school students studying commerce subjects to plan ahead in the choice of their Year 13 subjects and think in terms of preparation for their tertiary study in commerce, if that’s the path they want to pursue,” says Lincoln University’s Events Co-ordinator Rachel Boon who, along with recruitment staff, devised and organised the competition.

“This quiz will now be an annual event,” says Rachel, “and we are really grateful for the input from staff at the schools and our own staff at the University who all got behind it.

“Our congratulations to Cashmere High School as the inaugural winners.”   

The Commerce Cup will be presented to the winning team during a school assembly at Cashmere High School later this term