Last night, Kaika BeeCo, the college's entry in the 2016 awards, was named as the overall winner and also won the sustainable business award, had the best marketing plan, best sales performance and best financial performance.
Nadia Paine, from the team, was the top-performing pupil. The other team members are Bella Richmond-Grant, Kes Johnstone and Ashley Arthur.
Nadia will receive the Massey Business School Young Entrepreneur Scholar Award at the national awards as she scored the highest marks in New Zealand in the Young Enterprise exam earlier this year.
The girls manufactured beehives called Honey Huts after deciding there was too much competition in the skin-market with products using natural ingredients such as honey.
The beehives were made mainly from pine but some were also made from rimu, which had been recycled from old school buildings and furniture.
The Honey Huts sold for between $100 and $130 each and the money made would go towards tertiary studies for the team members.
It was also announced last night from the Young Enterprise Trust, in Wellington, Kaika BeeCo had won a national excellence award which will be presented to the team members at the national awards dinner on December 6.
YES regional co-ordinator Paul Allen, from the Otago Chamber of Commerce, told the Otago Daily Times it was the second consecutive year a Kaikorai Valley College team had been named regional winner and also won a national excellence award.
A previous team in 2009 also won the regional award and went on to win a Todd Corporation award at national level for coming second place in New Zealand.
''Their last three teams have won regional and national awards, which is pretty amazing. They have only entered three times, so this is a significant achievement for the school.
''The team has been working incredibly hard. They have been on the tools, in the workshop, manufacturing the beehives. They have been researching and appraising the design and what would and wouldn't work and how the wood could be treated.''
The team had far exceeded its targets set at the start of the competition, Mr Allen said.
The Pink Ladies team, from Columba College, won the best annual review. The team marketed pink pavlovas to raise money for breast cancer research.
OPPS, the team from Otago Boys' High School, was second in the best marketing plan category for its online permission slip app. Rather than pupils taking a permission slip home for parents to sign, parents received a phone alert.
Mr Allen believed all three teams had a bright future in their own right.
One of the YES companies not making it through to last night's winners, but with a product Mr Allen liked, was Queen's High School, which developed flavoured water with no sweetener.
''It is a good product and it tasted great. From pies to pavlova and apps to beehives, we had quite a range this year.''
