Award winning Higher School Certificate Personal Interest Projects (PIPs), 2005

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2005

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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 2005

Kate Thomson (Merewether High School)
Apathy or cynicism? Australian young people and political participation

Kurt Bugden (Mitchell High School)
Manufacturing masculinity

Ausseela Thanaphongsakorn (Burwood Girls’ High School)
‘Danger - Postmodernism doesn’t give a flying duck’: Does Postmodern culture hinder a young person’s political dreams?

Ai Ikeda (Rose Bay Secondary College)
Sexed out? An investigation into the impacts of modernity on the social construction of individual sexual identity.

Bethany Allsopp (No school identified)
The role of institutional factors in the making of a man: A case study

Khapil Narula (Epping Boys' High School)
The interrelationship of age and ethnicity and its effect on the ‘sense of belonging’ of male high school students

Calliste Weitenberg (The Hunter School of the Performing Arts)
Anchor-Lady: The role of the female in television journalism

Catherine Pennington (Hornsby Girls' High School)
The times they are a-changin’: Continuity and change in the culture of university students in Australia

Jace Armstrong (Kiama High School)
Moisturizing masculinity: an exploration of the ‘feminisation’ of masculinity as represented in the context of print advertising media

Marion Simmonds (Cheltenham Girls' High School)
The adultification of children and the emergence of tweens: An investigation of Postman’s hypothesis

Alysha Casey (Central Coast Grammar School)
An investigation into the effects of alienation from an adolescent peer group on identity formation

Kim Leontiev (Rosebay Secondary College)
X-Men: A critical examination of codes of masculinity that explores the continuities and changes of macro world perceptions of masculinity and the reality of lived experiences

Liz Hearn (Monte Sant’ Angelo Mercy College)
Shaping Society: The power relationship between media, government and the public

Elaine Francisco (Tyndale Christian School)
Finding Mr Darcy: Why, after 200 years, are we still looking for him?

Francesca Sidoti (St Columba’s High School, Springwood)
Talkin’ bout my generation: Is there a song that defines generation Y?

Monica Blain (Narara Valley High School)
Define and divide: Do we define who we are by who the other is?

Deahne Pinto (No school identified)
Pentecostalism: Religion of the 21st century? The growth of Pentecostalism in Australia

Amelia Marshall (Baulkham Hills High School)
The Hillsong phenomenon

Rose Matijevic (Mitchell High School)
Fat or fiction: You decide … or do you?

Amali Nelun Seneviratne (Cheltenham Girls' High School)
Curries, coconuts and bananas - what type of Asian are you? The forces of continuity and change on the adolescent migrant cultural identity

Elise Bogart (St Mary’s Senior High School)
Blaming the victim

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