Intergenite news

From the Wellington Harbour to the web event of the year, Intergenites have been keeping busy.

We’re a quarter of the way through 2009, and we’ve had a few yellow triumphs so far, as you might expect. You can read all about our Microsoft exploits and ventures in New Zealand and around the globe on the following pages. It’s hard to keep track of them all at the moment, but here’s the latest, for now at least!

This year Intergen is excited to be a strategic partner of Microsoft’s Imagine Cup, “the world’s premiere student software design competition.” Graduate recruitment has always been really important to us, and fostering young IT talent is a big part of our driving force – so Imagine Cup is a great way for us to get involved and spot new talent. And it just so happens we’re fortunate to have one of last year’s Imagine Cup New Zealand winners, (name) on staff. And our esteemed Managing Director, Tony Stewart, and Auckland developer Hamish Hill are also on the judging panel.

Every year in the dragonboating season the Wellington Harbour is ablaze with yellow and this year was no exception. Once again, the Intergen Raptors outdid themselves, coming third in the New Zealand Dragon Boat Nationals in Rotorua this year, beating even NZ Army, who pipped them at the post in the regional finals.

The surf was up at Webstock this year, with Intergen putting on a surf shack complete with smoothies and a ride-on surfboard which provided much amusement (and prizes) for the punters. It’s great for us to get involved in the interactive web space, and Webstock is an event much anticipated each year by our interactive designers. This year we were fortunate enough to sponsor online community gurus, Heather Champ (of Flickr fame) and Derek Powazek. We even had them along to chat to our staff – which could have gone on for hours if there wasn’t work to be done!