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Hillcrest team takes title A TEAM from Hamilton's Hill- crest High School has won the inaugural title of Best School for IT in the Waikato and Bay of Plenty. Year 10 studeuts Weizhe Phee, 13, and James Hender- son, 14, beat off 150 teams in- volving 436 students from throughout the region. The competition was organised by the New Zealand Inforrnation Technolory Educa- tion T?ust and is sponsored by Wel Energy Trust and Houston Computers. Head of the judging panei Alan Chew, managing director of Houston Computers, de- scribed the winning entry as "near commercial quali!/. The two students set up a computer company that re- tailed school computers, and as part of their marketing plan created a budget, brochure, a multimedia presentation and a website. According to Mr Chew, Hen- derson and Phee would have no difficult5r in gaining employ- ment in the information tech- nolory seetor. Their prize was a gBZ00 Compaq laptop computer. A team from Tauranga In- termediate school - Aidan Campbell, Dean Mclaughlin and Bennett Lee - won the title of "Most innovative use of IT-. They won a Philips comput- er monitor worth $1500. Their - project revolved around healthy food choices through setting up a school lunch bar with static entries and multi- media presentations.
