Competitions
  1. National Agricultural Poultry Project (current)
  2. CSI - Cool Sheep Investigation (closed 22 June 07)

1. National Agricultural Poultry Project

To State Agriculture Teachers,


Let me first introduce myself, my name is Paul Kent and for the past 7 years I have been the Queensland co-ordinator for the World's Poultry Science Association (WPSA) "High Schools Poultry Industry Education Competition".

(Details below in MS Word document form to download)

Project background

Project Rules

2006 Project Results

This program was initially developed by the Poultry industry, and Q'ld Agriculture and financed by industry sponsorship and WPSA funds.


Because of its success, the national poultry industry through the Australian Poultry Co-operative Centre (CRC) is trying to expand it into each state for the 2008 year. The intent is for the (CRC) to provide the operational funds, sponsorship of birds through each state's poultry industry and someone from each state's WPSA organisation to annually run the competition (There are easy to follow operational manuals available).

The purpose of this contact is three fold, firstly to make you aware of the competition and its background, secondly to gain your knowledge and support which is essential for the expansion of the competition, and thirdly to provide a contact for any feedback or further information you might require about the competition.

Queensland started off in 1999 with 9 Agriculture schools with poultry facilities and in 2006, 22 schools participated almost 50% of Q'ld's Ag schools. Please feel free to distribute this information to any other sources you think may be interested.


Regards Paul.

Contact details:

Paul Kent
Senior Extension Officer - Poultry Research and Development Centre
Delivery - Animal Science
Department of Primary Industries and Fisheries

Telephone (07) 382 00 503 Fax (07) 3824 4316
E-mail: paul.kent@dpi.qld.gov.au
Website: http://www.dpi.qld.gov.au Call Centre 13 25 23

 

2. CSI: Cool Sheep Investigation
Year 10 Science

cool_sheep

Date Due: Friday 22nd June 2007 (now closed)

 

This competition is funded by the Sheep CRC for Regional High Schools to raise student awareness of High Tech aspects of the sheep industry- namely AI.

Here is the link to the competition details: cool sheep competition.doc

The competition plus additional data on CD has been sent to 100 schools. It is aligned with curriculum outcomes and will take about an hour to do.

It involves students processing some secondary data from an AI experiment, coming up with an hypothesis, filling in some blanks and drawing a couple of graphs. Competitions will be judged by Professor Peter Chenoweth and Dr John Harper.

Prizes:
⇒ First prize $500 to student/s & $500 to the School to be used towards resources
⇒ Second prize $300 to student/s & $300 to the School to be used towards resources
⇒ Third prize $200 to student/s & $200 to the School to be used towards resources

Participants will be notified of results two weeks after the due date through their teacher.


Contact:


Dr John Harper
Senior Lecturer
Locked Bag 588
Charles Sturt University
School of Agricultural and Veterinary Sciences
Wagga Wagga, NSW 2678

Phone: (02) 6933-2837
Email: jharper@csu.edu.au

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