27 November 2006

UC student wins regional entrepreneur award

A University of Canberra business student has won the regional Young Achievement Australia (YAA) Tertiary Business Person of the Year Award that will see him compete for the national title later this month.

Andrew Flick took out the prize at the Southern NSW and Riverina Young Achievement Australia (YAA) awards earlier this month.

Andrew, who is undertaking a double degree in Business Administration and Commerce Accounting, said he had always been interested in business.

"My dad is in business and the entrepreneurship course tickled my interest," Andrew said.

The University of Canberra student team LAYA, of which Andrew is a member, were also awarded Best Tertiary Product and Best Tertiary Business Plan for Webtutor, a CD Rom directory that accesses over 200 quality educational resources on the Internet. The directory provides a quick and easy timesaving reference to a diverse range of activities based on the Primary School Education curriculum. The students were sponsored by Business ACT to carry out the project.

The University of Canberra team were among 25 student companies that competed from tertiary institutions within in the local region.

University of Canberra Lecturer Greg Boland said winning the awards was a great achievement for the students and reflected the quality of the entrepreneur course offered at the University.

"Their success is not only justly deserved it is also public recognition of the strength of the entrepreneur course on offer at the University, which was introduced in 2005."

He said students have since been approached by businesses with a view to recruitment.

Andrew, who will travel to Sydney later this month to compete for the National YAA Tertiary Entrepreneur of the Year title, said he was surprised at the level of interest from the business industry that the tertiary awards had generated.

Other University of Canberra students in the LAYA team were Rodney Laugher, Scott Pearce, Angela Furness, Trisha Wong, Alicia Hewitt, Julie-anne Batten, Matt Phillips, Goncalo Oliviera, Nicholas Taylor and Justin Lian.

The entrepreneurship minor was introduced in 2005 as part of a Bachelors degree and has been designed to help students recognise commercial opportunities, and to develop insight, self-esteem, knowledge and skills needed for a career in business .

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