Philatelic Youth Council (PYC) New Zealand
PYC Stamp Camp - 2018
The PYC Youth Stamp Camp 2018 "Wigram Skies Stamp Camp" will be held in Christchurch over the period 22nd - 28th April, 2018 at the Wigram Air Cadet Headquarters.
Click right for details and application form MS WORD VERSION or PDF VERSION
SP = Special Prize
To contact the webmaster email webmaster@pycnz.org
PYC and the camp organisers are once again pleased with the results of the 2017 Stamp Camp. Philately and fun were combined over a week with the campershaving a good time catching up with friends while at the same time expanding or starting a new philatelic exhibit.
The December 2017 edition of Fun Philately is now available. Click on the heading above to read this edition.
PYC congratulates all the Youth who entered RoyalPex 2017. The following are their exhibition results:
| Class | Entrant | Title | Frames | Points | Award |
| 5.1(a) Youth A | Annalise Smith | Children’s Books – Piecing Together the Story of Stories | 3 | 81 | Large Vermeil + SP |
| Andrew Sknar | Computers and their Impact on Human Communication | 1 | 71 | Large Silver | |
| Conor Smith | Antarctica | 1 | 76 | Vermeil | |
| Rose McTaggart | Winston Churchill - Through the Decades | 1 | 78 | Large Vermeil + SP | |
| Conor Smith | Robots | 1 | 73 | Large Silver | |
| Timothy Brown | Sure and Steadfast - 1st 100 years of the Boy's Brigade | 1 | 78 | Large Vermeil +SP | |
| Disha Bobby | Indian Culture and Science | 1 | 62 | Silver Bronze | |
| 5.2(a) Youth B | Ryan Smith | The Armed Forces | 3 | 83 | Large Vermeil + SP |
| Lachlan Smith | Gold | 3 | 86 | Gold + SP | |
| Amy Rosenfeldt | New Zealand Rose Definitives | 3 | 87 | Gold + SP | |
| 5.3(a) Youth B | Isabella Beach | The World's Most Popular Sport | 3 | 76 | Vermeil + SP |
| 6.6(a) Youth Dev | Emma Rowe | Dessert - A History of Temptation | 1 | 75 | Vermeil + SP |
| Olivia Cheng | Equestrian at the Olympics | 0.5 | 71 | Large Silver + SP | |
| Samantha Rowe | Children's Literature - from Aesop to Harry Potter | 1 | 78 | Vermeil + SP | |
| Arthur Koutsaeuko | Space Exploration | 1 | 68 | Silver + SP |
RoyalPex 2017 Youth Results
This is the website for the Philatelic Youth Council (PYC) of New Zealand. The Council's mission is to promote Youth Philately throughout New Zealand and to encourage youth stamp collecting and exhibiting in general.
The PYC manages and moderates national achievement awards for youth philatelists from bronze to gold level. It also publishes a quarterly Fun Philately newsletter.
PYC sponsors a stamp camp each year for youth club members who are looking to advance from stamp collecting into stamp exhibiting.