Work Ready Kāpiti held an awesome Awards night at Southwards Car Museum with local youth, colleges and employers all coming together to be recognised. Students from Kāpiti College, Paraparaumu College and Ōtaki College received their Kāpiti Work Ready Passports and were officially recognised as work ready.

From Ōtaki College these students included: Andrew Little, Daniel Neill, Charlie Simpson, Macson Chartres, Sophie Carpenter and Deep Patel, plus Genna McAlpine, Rawiri Rikihana-Sinclair, Bailey Cowan, Raymond Su and Blake Manning who were unable to attend on the night.

Macson Chartres won two Awards - Top Wex Placement, Sponsored by Bens Buns and Work Ready Kāpiti Youth of the Year, Sponsored by Pzazz Building. Macson's citation read as follows: 

"Macson has shown huge initiative and determination in pursuing a builders apprenticeship and becoming work ready throughout the year. He first made an impact on employers at community event - the SuperMeet, and later his college's Employer Meet. Macson has completed two Wex placements, made an impression on his Passport interviewers, and has graduated from the Kāpiti Work Ready Passport this evening. Macson shows a strong work ethic and maturity beyond his years, and we have every confidence he will succeed in his goals, in both work and life."

Ōtaki College also won the Award for Engaged and Invested, Sponsored by Ecoshifter.

The citation which accompanied this award reads as follows:

"Ōtaki College consistently support their students to attain positive outcomes across all of Work Ready Kāpiti's programmes and they do this with a careers team of one.  Their boys' leadership group Manukura GPS has clearly made an impact on the development of work and life readiness for many of the Passport graduates you see this evening, and the college's active staff leadership and belief in their students is evident at every event.

A huge congratulations to Macson for his two awards and to our other students who are Kāpiti Work Ready Passport graduates - Well done!"