Four students from Maungatapu School in Tauranga have been named the winners of New Zealand's first e-Waste Eddie Awards.
The national competition was run as part of School eDay, a free event which provided an opportunity for New Zealand schools to safely recycle unused computer equipment while teaching students about the benefits of recycling electronic waste.

Students from Maungatapu School receiving their prize for winning New Zealand's first e-Waste Eddie Award.

To enter, students created advertisements about the benefits of recycling e-waste using the interactive software programme Marvin and featuring School eDay mascot e-Waste Eddie.
The first-equal winners were Year 5 student Kimberley King and Year 6 students Aimee Tomlinson, Casey Bartlam and Selena Wright. For their prize, the school received a Canon digital video camera and will have a custom avatar created for their school based on a sketch drawn by the students.
Local eDay supporter Annabelle Ellis of Environment Bay of Plenty presented the prize at a ceremony at the school on Tuesday, along with representatives from eDay sponsors Canon.
Vicki Coe, ICT manager at the school says the new video camera will greatly help the students' learning and creativity.
'Along with film making and advertising, we see the video camera as a useful tool for pupils preparing speeches to view and evaluate their own performances. The students all participated enthusiastically in the competition and were really excited to be announced the winners.”