Competition stories

Lenovo has announced the winner of its Lenovo Legion Epprenticeship, an initiative created to encourage budding developers wanting a career in gaming.More

Arena-packed esports tournaments are no longer a sustainable or safe practice in the wake of the pandemic, so e-sports competitions have adapted to suit the booming ‘stay at home economy’.More

Only 12% of respondents strongly agree their own business leaders have the right mindsets to lead them forward, and only 9% agree that their organisation has the skills at the top to thrive in the digital economy.More

Running in its fifth year, the Rice Bowl Startup Awards aim to connect and empower the ASEAN Economic Community to power up their local economies with startups and scaleups.More

“An iceberg drifts in the Southern Ocean somewhere near the polar circle. This was the first iceberg I had ever seen, and I was for a moment stunned by the majesty of this natural phenomenon. After taking a few photos I put my camera down and tears filled my eyes.”More

Deloitte and Amazon Web Services have built and hosted a competition portal for the Tech Girls Movement Foundation (TGMF) to encourage more girls in Australia and New Zealand to get into STEM.More

More than 10,000 young engineers and robotics fans participated in the annual Robomaster robotics competition in Bao’an Stadium in Shenzhen, China.More

Cybersecurity solutions for public cloud and ‘as a service’ offerings are continuing to grow, however traditional hardware and software deployments still dominate the market.More

The winner will receive $235,000 for using drones and data in unique ways to address local challenges and big topics such as humanitarian aid.More

Tara Stevens (14) and Riley Pollard (11), from New Plymouth and Okato and the Nakibots team, beat 80 other teams from across the world.More

Trend Micro’s What’s Your Story? Is a fun poster competition for kids aged between 5-12 years. They can design a poster that reflects the good side of the internet in whatever creative ways they come up with.More

The competition is an initiative by Trend Micro to reframe some of the negative connotations around internet safety. More

The new offering makes it easy to make incremental or ongoing upgrades to their equipment. More

The competition is an initiative by Trend Micro to reframe some of the negative connotations around internet safety.More

Winners will get to have lunch with an astronaut and take an in-depth Level 9 VIP tour of the Houston Space Center.More

Each finalist will have six minutes to present, followed by a four-minute Q&A session with a panel of industry experts.More

The winning startup will be announced in Sydney, Australia on December 1, 2018, during the StartCon conference.More

“These finalists have delivered exciting concepts that will have an impact on solving navigation issues in the Antarctic.”More

University of Auckland Commerce and Law student Jillin Yan took the top spot in the 2018 CMC Markets’ University Trading Challenge.More

iDEAStarter is designed to foster young entrepreneurial talent and help them into career pathways.More

Selva Ganapathy and Joyce Chen from the College of Business and Law, University of Canterbury, Christchurch were the APAC winners in 2017.More

Kiwi ingenuity wins hearts and the top three places in the Microsoft Imagine Cup A/NZ finals, beating their Australian counterparts.More

Commpete (formally the Competitive Carriers' Coalition) says it wants to bring the market share of 'challenger' organisations up to 30%.More

The initiative is linked directly to the new Digital Technologies & Hangarau Matihiko curriculum content.More