Award winning Higher School Certificate Personal Interest Projects (PIPs), 2009

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2009

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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 2009

Box 1
Emily Smith (Gosford High School)
Causes without a rebel: An investigation of the demise of political music
Popular Culture Prize

Bess Rossiter (St Mary’s Senior High School)
‘I’m not racist, I’m just funny!’: Exploring ethnic humour and racism amongst generation Y
Equality and Difference Prize

Matthew Bamford (St Mary’s Cathedral College)
‘Is the trouble brew’in in the burbs?’ A research project investigating the changing structure of communities in urban Sydney
Community prize

Emma Bowers (Killara High School)
Nothing but blue sky? An exploration into the construction of the glass ceiling through gender role socialisation and its implications for the identity and experiences of Australian women
Medal for HSC Examination and prize for Gender Studies

Rebecca Greenwood (Merewether High School)
‘Madman, mercenary or missionary?’ An investigation into the responsibility of nations to provide support to neighbouring nations, focusing on Australia and East Timor
Humanitarian prize

Kerana Sadaf Hakimi (Macarthur Girls' High)
Afghan girls gone wild: How the fear of acculturation into western society has exacerbated the sexual oppression of Afghan teenage girls
Continuity & Change Prize

Kristin Renzenbrink (Willoughby Girls' High School)
Censorship the Australian way: an investigation into regulation and freedom of expression
High Distinction

Ben Cannon (Knox Grammar School)
The grass ceiling: The extent to which gender bias limits female participation in amateur and elite sport
Work and Leisure Prize

Melissa Ong (Hornsby Girls' High School)
Tongue-tied: An exploration into the attitudes towards the mother tongue among second generation adolescent Australians
High Distinction

Lauren Carmichael (St Andrews Cathedral School)
I am woman … hear me whisper: An investigation into the role of the ‘housewife’ in contemporary western society
HSC Examination Medal


Box 2
Alix Pearce (Willoughby Girls' High School)
Through the porthole
Personal Experience Prize

Jessica Blain (Willoughby Girls' High School)
Penetrating Australia’s patriotism
Medal for HSC Examination and the President’s Prize

Josh Pallas (Holy Spirit College, Bellambi)
Australia: The Pontius Pilate or Prodigal Son of the Roman Catholic Church? An investigation into how the Roman Catholic Church in Australia is meeting the challenges of the 21st century
Belief Systems Prize

Jemma Cartland (Gosford High School)
Deutschland, uber alles: Nationalism no longer is synonymous with Fascism, but rather is emblematic of a self reconciled, auspicious and truly unified nation
Medal for HSC Examination and High Distinction

Alison Ryan (St Mary's Senior High School)
An analysis of the social significance of contemporary art to the urban Indigenous and non-Indigenous communities of Australia
Reconciliation Prize

Angela Bennett (Gosford High School)
Giving up: Who will give when God is gone?
High Distinction

Stephanie Mason (Monte Sant’ Angelo Mercy College)
Is foreign aid perpetuating ‘race’?
High Distinction

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