Award winning Higher School Certificate Personal Interest Projects (PIPs), 2008

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2008

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The Personal Interest Project (PIP) is a compulsory section of the Higher School Certificate (HSC) Society and Culture course. The PIP can be up to 5,000 words and is worth 30% of the course for the HSC. It provides an opportunity for students to carry out guided social and cultural research in an area of personal interest.

The annual Society and Culture Awards are held under the auspices of the Society and Culture Association at the Mitchell Library. These awards acknowledge both excellence in the overall HSC examination for the ‘Top 10’ candidates and for excellence in the Personal Interest Project by acknowledging candidates who have achieved a High Distinction. Each recipient is given an individually engraved medal and in some cases a specific prize.

Prizes are traditionally books which are given to ‘First in State’, and to those HD PIPs which are also considered the best in specific categories and are significant in demonstrating social and cultural literacy. In recent years PIP Prizes have included: the Reconciliation Prize (sponsored by the NSW Aboriginal Education Consultative Group, AECG), the Civics and Citizenship Prize (sponsored by the Parliamentary Education Office, Canberra), the Gender Studies Prize (sponsored by the State Library of NSW), the Popular Culture Prize, the Equality & Difference Prize, the Belief Systems Prize, the Studies of Asia Prize and the President’s Prize (all sponsored by the Society and Culture Association).

References:
Pearson Australia. http://pearson.com.au/media/357329/9781740819121.pdf (accessed 14 October, 2013
How the association acknowledges excellence in society and culture. Culturescope, Vol. 80, July 2006: 13-14. Via Informit Online http://search.informit.com.au/fullText;dn=574412533371676;res=IELHSS (accessed 17 Oct. 2013)

Award winning Personal Interest Projects for 2008

Amanda Liu (All Saints Catholic Senior College)
P.I.P. Personal Interest Project or P.I.P. Pushy Immigrant Parents

Natalie Keech (St Clare’s High School, Taree)
What is the ness?: The realization, deconstruction and re-articulation of whiteness

Megan Williams-Thompson (Hornsby Girls' High School)
The Australian one-child policy: Investigating the significance of socialisation factors unique to only children in shaping identity

Jemima Stratton (Hornsby Girls' High School)
‘Open wide, come inside’ … Australia: Play School as a reflection of wider Australian society

Emily Reynolds (Gosford High School)
‘Don’t think twice, it’s all right’: From activism to apathy. The decline in the popularity of protest songs since the 1960s

Alexandra Peters (North Sydney Girls' High)
Activism or apathy? A cross-generational investigation into how and why student activism has changed over the last four decades

Jenny Song (Hornsby Girls' High School)
Chinese Dundee: Racialisation and Chinese-Australian identities

Patrick Girdler (Sydney Secondary College, Blackwattle Bay)
Don’t be scared. It’s only street art
Popular Culture Prize

Hannah Lily Smyth (Willoughby Girls' High School)
‘Baa, baa politically correct sheep’: The intent, extent and effect of political correctness in children’s media

No name or school given on paper
The driving force behind the driving force: How, and to what extent, do parents and peers impact on the psychological behaviour of individuals regarding sporting performance?

Jessica McDonell (Willoughby Girls' High School)
Torture-tainment

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Reference copies of all PIP papers are available in the SRL Reading Room