Musterers secure spot at TeenAg nationals

St Paul’s Collegiate School took two teams to the Waikato/Bay of Plenty regional TeenAg competition in Huntly on Saturday, which is the secondary school equivalent of the Young Farmer of the Year competition.

St Paul’s two teams – consisting of Amber Humphreys, Donna Smit, Brad Edwards and Quinn Bowie – competed against 20 other schools in two events.

The first event was made up of eight modules, including:

• loading and tying down a trailer
• identifying alpaca fibre
• sorting sugar and calories in drinks
• safety and identifying risks
• seed identification.

The top five teams of this event, including St Paul’s Musterers Brad and Quinn, then went on to compete in a ‘face off.’ For this event, teams had to complete three tasks in 15 minutes. The tasks were putting up a tent, building furniture from four planks of wood and erecting a fence. St Paul’s Musterers scored the most points for putting up a tent and for working together as a team. Their fence building also ranked very high.

St Paul’s Musterers placed second overall across the two events, securing a space at the national TeenAg competition on 7 July in Timaru which will run alongside the Young Farmer of the Year competition.