Terms and conditions
How to enter
The Buy My Duck competition is open to all State and Government school students in Years 3-12. Entrants must be under 18 years of age.
While we acknowledge students may enter the competition through a club, association or after school centre, the school and teacher prizes will only be awarded to a State or Government schools.
- Challenge
- Getting Started
- Get the facts
- Decide what to say
- Presenting the information
- Judging Criteria
- Categories
- Teacher Incentive Award
- Submitting entries
- Special notes
Challenge
The Buy My Duck competition challenges students to create a 'Survival guide to shopping' for their peers. To follow the theme provided in 2009 students' projects should focus on consumer advice when retail shopping or buying and operating a mobile phone. Guides should be fun and creative. Previous entries have included posters, brochures, short films and music clips.
Entries must be received by Friday 3 July 2009 and accompanied with a completed entry form.
All students and teachers who submit an entry in the competition will receive a certificate of participation.
Getting Started
Teachers, your students may work individually or in a group (a maximum of four students per group). The Buy My Duck 2009 competition has a central theme of retail shopping and mobile phones.
As a first step register the individual students entering or groups. The information is used to support your students as they participate in the competition.
Use the stories and lesson plans to introduce discussions on consumer rights into the classroom.
Use the themes from the lesson plans to ask your students to create a guide, in any format: a poster, brochure or a multimedia presentation, which will help other young consumers avoid pitfalls when shopping and become more informed and consumers.
Get the facts
Students need to gather information on their chosen topic. To do this they may wish to:
- discuss issues with you and their classmates;
- read the ideas page;
- refer to various Consumer Protection publications at the Department of Commerce website;
- visit relevant outlets to gather information, such as shops and mobile phone retailers; or
- participate in classroom activities.
Decide what to say
It is critical for your students to think about what message they want to deliver and why it is important. For example, your students may want to include information on:
- returning a faulty product to a store;
- signing up to a mobile phone contract;
- mobile phone ringtone scams;
- online shopping - what happens when there is a problem?
Presenting the information
Consumer Protection will receive entries in the following formats:
- Poster (A3 is the maximum size);
- Brochure (A4 is the maximum size);
- PowerPoint presentation;
- Film;
- Multimedia presentation;
- Postcard;
- Radio/film script;
- Short advertisement
Please note multimedia/electronic entries need to be submitted via YouTube. Please name your entries Buy My Duck 09 - then add your school name and submission name e.g. "Buy My Duck 09 ABC Senior School Don't Get Ripped Off". For more information about uploading to YouTube please refer to the YouTube help pages.
Judging Criteria
The judges will be assessing each entry on how the work:
- communicates the consumer message to a young audience creatively;
- promotes how a young person can avoid consumer pitfalls;
- explains why the issue is important to young people;
- delivers the intended message in a succinct, creative and original format.
The entry must include the Department name, logo and phone number.
Phone number: 1300 30 40 54
Categories
The metropolitan and regional categories are:
- Years 3-5
- Years 6-7
- Years 8-12
Prizes include $250 for student(s) and $2,000 for the school's learning centre plus a Teacher Incentive Award of $250.
Please note the regional category includes residents of Christmas and Cocos (Keeling) Islands.
Teacher Incentive Award
All teachers who submit their Buy My Duck classroom activities or lesson plan (with curriculum links) and their Teacher Feedback Form are in the running to win $250.
Submitting entries
Get your students to fill in the Buy My Duck entry form.
Ensure the students print their names clearly and have all pieces of their entry marked with their name.
Please attach an entry form to each finished entry and send to:
Buy My Duck
Department of Commerce
Consumer Protection Division
Locked Bag 14, Cloisters Square
PERTH WA 6850
Entries must be received by Friday 3 July 2009.
Special notes
All entries will become the property of the Department of Commerce. Entries will not be returned to participants.
Entries may be used in whole or part in non-profit consumer protection education initiatives, or for the promotion of consumer protection issues in the community.
