
YRE 2018 RESULTS
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Congratulations to all of our winners in the Young Reporters For The Environment (YRE) programme, run in New Zealand. Keep New Zealand Beautiful is the national operator for this internationally accredited competition which is run under the Foundation For Environmental Education banner (FEE).
The NZ YRE Jury was composed of experts in the fields of journalism, photography and environmental Sustainable Development. The members are Melissa Davies, TV Journalist; Jacki Key, Environmental Photographer; Folko Boermans, Creative Director Media Studies at University of Auckland and Victoria Hamilton, Mars NZ. The YRE National Winners will receive a place in the National YRE Winners Workshop which will be held at The University of Auckland in November.
Thank you to Wrigley and University of Auckland for sponsoring Young Reporters For The Environment in 2018, and a special thanks to our guest judges.
ARTICLE: 11-14 YEARS
1st Place
Ella Harneiss, Ruby Froggatt, Jessica Reynolds
South New Brighton School
2nd Place
Suffocating in a Plastic World
Indiana Bell
Cobham Intermediate School
3rd Place
Is Plastic one of our enemies or one of our greatest creations?
Jasmine Partridge and Myah Harlick
South New Brighton School
Honourable Mention
Nouelle Smith
Iona College
Honourable Mention
Maddy Swa and Emma Bartram
Iona College
Article: 15–18 Years
1st Place
Maia Ingoe
Gisborne Girls’ High School
2nd Place
Wenyi Soon
Takapuna Grammar School
3rd Place
Josephine Verhaaren
Whanganui District Council Youth Committee
Honourable Mention
Maddie Wilson
Gisborne Girls’ High School
Photograph 11-14 Years
1st Place
Where there’s smoke, there’s fire
Zoe Smith
Avondale College
2nd Place
Jonte Butterfield and Tane Law
Cobham Intermediate School
3rd Place
Lit Up Skies and Littered Water
Zaakirah Nisa, Zaara Nabi and Maariyah Ali
Al-Madinah School
Honourable Mention
Savannah Jansen
St Cuthbert’s College
Honourable Mention
Some People are Made of Plastic
Julie Uchiyama and Kaitlyn Adams
Cobham Intermediate School
Photograph 15-18 Years
1st Place
Christine Yu
Avondale College
2nd Place
Malisha Munidasa
Avondale College
3rd Place
Is this the Future of our Drinking Water?
Riyah Ali and Alisha Ali
Al-Madinah School
Honourable Mention
What the Quack is all this Rubbish?!!!
Siddharth Sheth
Avondale College
Honourable Mention
Deadpool 3: The Return of Microplastics
Katja Phutaraksa Neef
Takapuna Grammar School
Video 11-14 Years
1st Place
Jakita Paranihi-Nuku
Ōtaki/Kāpiti Kuraina ki te Kainga
2nd Place
Clean and Green’s Our Perfect Dream
Zubair Mohammed, Mursheen Khan and Tauseef Hussain
Al-Madinah School
3rd Place
Danica Ward, Jessie Weld and Brooke Hardy
Kairanga School
Video 15-18 Years
No awards given in this category
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