Winners plucked in duck contest
Issue Date: - Wednesday, 12 November 2008
The winners of the Buy My Duck 2008 school competition have been decided.
Over 300 students, from years three to twelve, participated in this year’s competition, sponsored by Community Newspapers, and shared in a prize pool of $14,000.
Buy My Duck is a competition that has been developed as a school based program to enhance young consumers’ knowledge and understanding of their rights and responsibilities.
Research indicates that young people are unaware of their rights and responsibilities as consumers, and this is making them increasingly vulnerable in the marketplace.
“The Buy My Duck 2008 competition required students to create ‘A survival guide to shopping’ for young consumers,” Consumer Protection Commissioner Anne Driscoll said.
“This year’s entries included multimedia movies, interviews with managers of retail shops, comic books, posters, brochures, electronic games and a board game. The entries were very creative and innovative.
“Over 300 students participated in the competition. These young consumers have demonstrated a great awareness of the possible consuming pitfalls they may face,” she said.
Winners received $250 personally and $2,000 for their school’s learning centre.
The Buy My Duck 2008 competition included a website that provided curriculum-based Western Australian teaching resources.
Two teachers received ‘Teacher Incentive Awards’ for their support of the competition. The 2008 Teacher Incentive Awards were presented to Ms Rebecca Watkins of Glencoe Primary School and Ms Melinda Donovan of Merredin Senior High School.
The winners for 2008 are:
Metropolitan
- Years 3-5: Jordan Branch, Keely Geddes, Tyler Shore and Dylan Freeman of Glencoe Primary School, who created a PowerPoint presentation outlining consumer rights to refunds when they change their minds about a purchase.
- An Honourable Mention was awarded to Oliver Morrison of Mullaloo Beach Primary School, who entered a cartoon poster telling ‘A true story’ regarding warranties on products bought overseas.
- Years 6-7 Joint winners:
- Kristen Lee and Michelle Vuaillat of Currambine Catholic Primary School. Kristen Lee created a ‘Survival Kit for Renting’, which included a radio show answering renters’ questions, a booklet entitled ‘All you need to know about renting’ and a board game named ‘Rent Attack’.
- Michelle Vuaillat produced a documentary style video in which she interviewed retail store managers about refunds, returns and consumer rights to highlight the fact that each store has different polices.
- Years 8-12: Alycia Cook, Jacinta Crook, Brie Garn and Colleen Tonkin from Perth College developed an animated movie entitled ‘The free iPod’, which detailed how clicking on an internet pop-up making claims about free rewards can be a scam and be damaging to your computer.
- An Honourable Mention was presented to Aaron Greenham of Living Waters Lutheran College who created a hand-drawn movie regarding the pit falls of credit card debt.
Regional Western Australia
- Years 3-5: Mitchell Crew from North Kalgoorlie Primary School produced a printed photo picture storyline about buying a faulty product and receiving a refund.
- Years 6-7: Sebastian Wellstead, Sophie Johnstone, Zahra Van Zwam and Ryan Newbold of North Kalgoorlie Primary School produced a printed photo picture storyline about what to look out for when buying a car.
- Years 8-12: Jessica Scally, Krysten Linsley, Maddi O’Brien and Tori Beaver from Nagle Catholic College in Geraldton, who developed a display book on all the information you need to know when buying a mobile phone.
A selection of the winning entries for the 2008 Buy My Duck competition will soon be available to view on the Buy My Duck website.
Due to the success of the Buy My Duck school competition, it will run again in 2009. Details of how to enter will be available on the website during the first school term of 2009.
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