An Invercargill secondary school has won the prestigious New Zealand Treasury Schools Challenge for the second year in a row.
James Hargest College pupils Megan Robinson, Liam O'Connor, Alexander Blair and Emma Gough once again came up with the winning ideas for lifting New Zealand's long-term economic growth rate.
At the heart of the team's 2013 presentation was a ''Hexagon of Happiness'', where each corner represented a different criterion a policy could be assessed against.
Modelled on the Treasury's Living Standards Framework, the hexagon was used to evaluate policies not only in terms of economic growth but against various social, cultural and environmental dimensions.
The college was one of 10 finalists - including a team from Otago Boys' High School, Dunedin - which travelled to Wellington for the challenge. New Plymouth Girls' High School and Christchurch Girls' High School were second equal.
