Young storytellers shine at Local Content Competition

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Rashidah (fourth left) and Salina (third right) present the mock cheque and certificates to the winners of the competition.

Rashidah (fourth left) and Salina (third right) present the mock cheque and certificates to the winners of the competition.

MIRI: A team of four students from SM Sains Miri was the winner of the Local Content Competition 2015 organised by Pustaka Miri.

The school’s team named ‘The Oil Town Legend’ walked away with RM1,000 cash and certificates of achievement for their story dubbed ‘Be Ok: Pemusnah Pembela Adat’.

The team members are Muhamad Aiman Hakim Mohd Hisham, Muhammad Waffieq Syarafuddin Mazlan, Nur Hafia Yusree and Jacquelyn Juliet Suching.

The team’s advising teacher Awang Syazwan Awang Hassan was also adjudged as the Best Teacher, bagging the ‘Advisor Excellence Award’ in the competition.

Pustaka Sarawak chief executive officer Rashidah Bolhassan presented the prizes to the winners.

Three other participating teams also received incentives from the organiser for successfully completing their respective projects for the competition.

They were the ‘Cendiakawan’ team from SMK Lopeng with their story on ‘Nabau: Giant Snake , the ‘Grand Old Lady’ team from SM Sains with ‘Legend on Bukit Sari’ and another team from the same school named ‘The Fying Hornbills’ with their entry ‘The Myth Behind Bubbling Mud’.

Each team received RM200 cash and certificates of participation.

In her speech, Rashidah said the competition was first organised in 2008 and was aimed at supporting the existing effort to document local content through the publication of the Sarawakiana series conducted by professional researchers and universities.

“The students were taught information literacy skills where participants were exposed to printed and non-printed information resources, how to do research on local content such as history, relics, indigenous communities, cultures, social-economics and others relevant topics,” she said.

Such a competition indirectly served as the best venue for students to apply what they had been taught while working as a team, she added.

Later at the same function, 18 library members were recognised for being monthly active readers who borrowed the most books from the library between the month of January and September this year. Each recipient received a book voucher worth RM50 and certificates.

Present at the event was Pustaka Miri’s regional manager Salina Zawawi.