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Thalia Penninkilampi from Penrith High School has been announced as the overall winner of the 2010 What Matters? Competition. Thalia, who is in Year 10, received the award on Tuesday 22 June at a ceremony attended by Ms Thérèse Rein and Mrs Margaret Whitlam AO. As overall winner of the Whitlam Institute 2010 What Matters Competition she received $250.00, a trophy and a brand new laptop and software package from the competition sponsor Officeworks.
Read Thalia's winning entry (PDF, 71Kb)
Read all of the finalists entries
The Whitlam Institute is thrilled to announce that eight finalists in the 2010 What Matters? competition have been selected from a record number of over 2500 entries.
Entries are open for the annual What Matters competition, which asks young people in Years 5 to 12 across NSW and the ACT to write 400 – 600 words about what matters to them.
Entries close Friday 30 April 2010. Entry forms are available to download here.
For more information, and to download the winning entries from previous years, please visit the What Matters page on our website.
Cash and other prizes will be awarded to the winner and runner up in each category, and every entrant will receive a certificate of participation.
What Matters? 2010 is proudly sponsored by Officeworks
For more information please call 02 9685 9187.
