Civics for Citizenship Essay Competition
THE COMPETITION
The Rotary Club of Hobart has established a “Civics for Citizenship” essay competition to encourage civic literacy amongst Tasmania’s school children.
This competition seeks to promote interest in, and participation in the civic culture of Tasmania through a debate on the foundation principles of citizen engagement with our democracy.
The Rotary Club of Hobart believes it is important to encourage the next generation of leadership to reflect on where their democratic values came from in order to appreciate the need to use them and preserve them
The Rotary Club particularly embraces the concept of an essay competition as this connects well to the Club’s special community service theme of literacy.
Literacy has been a hidden problem in Tasmania for too long. The Rotary Club adopted the theme to contribute to solving the problem through a series of projects over three years. It is hoped that the Civics for Citizenship Prize will inspire students to express creatively their interest in Tasmania’s law, history, politics or just a love of writing.
The Competition has now closed - thank you to all who have entered.
THE THEME
There are two competitions:
For Students in Year 7 and 8
This competition has now closed.
The theme for the 800 - 1,000-word essay competition is: "How Serious a Threat is Fake News to Australian Democracy” .
The final date for submission will be 27th September 2019. Participating schools can submit up to two essays per school.
There are three prizes for the competition. The first prize has a value of $500; second prize $200 and third prize $100.
The competition is open to years 7 and 8 in all Tasmanian schools.
FURTHER INFORMATION AND CONTACTS are given in the Information Sheet and entry form below.
For Students in Year 10 (and will be in Year 11 in 2020).
This competition has now closed.
The theme for the 1,200-word essay competition is "Should a Person be Legally Liable for Social Media Posts? Please explain your answer."
The final date for submission will be 27th September 2019. Participating schools can submit up to two essays per school.
The successful essay will win one week in Canberra under the “Rotary Adventure in Citizenship" sponsored by the Rotary Club of Hobart. The Rotary Adventure in Citizenship” programme helps to prepare young adults for full participation as citizens of Australia with meetings, discussions and visits to Parliament House. RAIC is held during the week of the Federal Budget.
The competition is open to 2019 Year 10 students in any school in the Tasmanian 62 telephone area.
FURTHER INFORMATION AND CONTACTS are given in the Information Sheet and entry form below.
Information sheet and Entry forms: