WILL Mattock from Cyril Jackson Senior Campus was announced as the winner of an anti-drug film making project on Thursday at the Mandurah Performing Arts Centre.
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The Students Advising Youth (SAY) project is a Western Australian Police initiative whereby students research an anti-drug topic and compile a 90- 105-second film to show how they could make their community drug free and drug aware.
Students aged 12-18 years from across WA entered with 10 finalists attending the awards night.
Will, a year 11 student from Bassendean, came away the winner for his film titled Drugs, Think Twice against some stiff competition.
He received $1000 and will travel to Canberra next week where he will present his film to a Federal Government representative at Parliament House.
Dempsey Auguston from Albany Senior High School was the runner up.
Senior Constable Tam McKeown. who created the SAY Project. said young people were often reluctant to take on-board the advice delivered to them by adults, whether it was about illegal drugs, road safety or any other community safety topic.
“The SAY Project aims to harness their enthusiasm, innovation and creativity to empower them to become educators of other youth on topical subjects,” he said.
The finalists included year 11 student Jade Parker from John Tonkin College who finished sixth and Will Evans from Comet Bay College who placed 10th.
