A.C.E. is a great example of students combining innovation and enterprise to create a fantasitc company with real growth potential.

Thanks again to all from MOVAC who sponsor and support this programme.

Steve Jobs, together with Steve Wosniak, made it possible for schools at the time (1978-9) to contemplate buying in to computer technology. Napier BHS had been using IBM System 3′s for basic administration but needed to work on business sites. The Apple II and the IIe (education model) made it possible to have computers in the school. While still expensive at the time, local businesses and benefactors (the late Kel Tremain brought the second one for the school after challenging us to raise money for the first) made it possible for us to get started. The impact on the students was immediate and from those early classes people like yourself and Rod Drury have gone on to great things. Another I remember was Andrew Johston who now has an Apple retail store in Napier. None of this would have been possible without the genius of Steve Jobs whose dream at the time was to make computing personal. Steve put the dream into the minds of bright young students who dared to take up the vision of what could be. He never stopped dreaming and his greatest years were the last ten where the Apple iPxxxx devices he inspired have changed the world forever.

His life has been tragically cut short, but he blazed a trail across the internet sky so bright that everyone looked up and were amazed with what they saw. The meteor has been extinguished but the legacy remains. Thank you Steve for dreaming what could be done, and then doing it.

‎”No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don’t want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life’s change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new. Right now the new is you, but someday not too long from now, you will gradually become the old and be cleared away. Sorry to be so dramatic, but it is quite true.

Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.”