For the second year in a row a Kerikeri teenager has won a Northland-wide contest for best student business with a surf school aiming to give young women confidence in the water.

Sky’s Surf School, founded by Sky Gundry, 18, was judged the best entry for stall presentation and willingness to engage with the public at the Young Enterprise Scheme Trade Fair held at Kerikeri’s Old Packhouse Market on Saturday.

Second place was won by Moerewa 21-year-old Rosalyn Davis-Rawiri, who attends Hiwa-i-te-Rangi teen parents school, for a business called Kānara Aoroa producing decorative candles in the female form. Third prize went to Ella Parker, 16, of Ōpua, and Thomas Fewtrell, 18, of Kerikeri, for a teen sailing school called Sail Inc.

The customer choice award was won by Jacob Fewtrell for Insight, a business making automated solar-powered lights.

Coordinator Gary Larkan said 47 student businesses from every corner of Northland took part in the Trade Fair. The event drew a big crowd and more than half the stalls sold out.

The lucky customers who went home with $250 supermarket vouchers were Hurimae Latimer of Panguru and Val Mack of Kerikeri.