A boring device has risen above its competitors in an innovation-focused competition.
The creation of Hamilton high school students isn't actually dull – it’s used to hold a post-hole borer.
And it got the young innovator of the year title at the Fieldays 2016 Innovation Awards.
The product has been dubbed Crankworks and was created by St Paul’s Collegiate School agribusiness students Ben McColgan, Hugh Jackson, Connor Gordon and Angus Kelly.
The device attaches to a trailer or motorbike so a single person can bore a hole safely, without being affected by the twisting movement.
If you search "post hole borer fail" on YouTube, you can find a few examples of why that’s important.
The four young innovators came up with the product in an agribusiness class at St Paul’s.
The agribusiness programme was created with DairyNZ and Beef + LambNZ to encourage more secondary school students to look at a primary industries career by showing them the range of opportunities available.
Fieldays chief executive Peter Nation said there was great ingenuity in the Fieldays Innovation Centre.
"You're looking at innovations today that could very well revolutionise agribusiness tomorrow," he said.
There were 70 entrants in the 2016 Fieldays Innovation Awards.
