Latanya Dickinson was the winner of the most recent business camp for students sponsored by the Bank of Bermuda.

Latanya took top honours after developing an online accounting programme aimed at helping small Island businesses stay on top of their finances.

The camps began in 2000 and this year the programme was expanded to two camps of 20 participants each, organiser Joseph Mahoney said.

It is modelled after an American youth entrepreneurship programme which has been running for many years.

The Bermudian participants follow the same curriculum as Americans but do the programme over the Internet.

After the online business plan is developed the students move the plans into action over a two-week physical camp

Latanya won a mobile phone for developing her innovative accounting package.

The 19-year-old aspires to become a qualified accountant after completing her post-secondary education.

She has been pursuing an Associate's Degree in Business Administration at Bermuda College for the past year and hopes to win a scholarship to attend the Atlantic School of Accounting.

Other winners this year were Andrew Barnes, a 15-year-old Saltus student who developed a stock exchange game.

"The aim is so that kids could learn to play the stock exchange," he said.

Andrew said he might one day become a trader but hasn't completely settled on his future plans yet. "I think I want to do something business related."

Budding fashionista Chalsey Symonds was another 2002 winner. The 15-year-old Bermuda High School student made and marketed tie-dye wrap skirts.

With the help of her mother on the sewing machine, she whipped up wraps under the company name Triple F - Fabulous Fuschia Fashions.

Despite her brief endeavour into the fashion world, Chalsey might set her careers goals on medicine and she is an adept science student.

"At first I didn't want to go," she said of the business camp. "But when it was all finished I was glad I went. I want to thank my dad for making me go."

The nicest thing about the business camp is that everybody wins, said organiser Mr. Mahoney.

The winners were judged by a team of professionals which included David Lang of the Bank of Bermuda, John Narroway of CellularOne, Greg Swan from the Ministry of Telecommunications and E-commerce and VSB news director Bryan Darby.