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The Perdana Leadership Foundation is organising a essay contest open to all secondary and tertiary level students, themed: “Nurturing the Minds of Future Leaders”.

The aims are to stimulate greater interest in the nation’s history, highlight the resources in Perdana Leadership Foundation, and also to encourage analytical writing and thinking.

There are three categories in total: ( 1 ) Lower Secondary, ( 2 ) Upper Secondary and ( 3 ) Tertiary (college students and undergraduates up to 25 years of age).

Each category requires the participant to focus on different aspects of Malaysia.

For the lower secondary level, the focus is on a past Prime Minister and his contributions; upper secondary level students are asked to present their thoughts on challenges to national unity whereas tertiary level students are invited to examine Malaysia’s history from Merdeka to the present day and to offer what they feel are the most important five lessons that can be derived from history.

A list of suggested resources for each topic are available, but students are free to select and use their own resources.

PRIZES

There are attractive prizes on offer, including a Proton Savvy for the grand prize at tertiary level, a Modenas scooter for upper secondary level and a mountain bicycle for lower secondary level.

Other prizes include iPods, laptops, mobile phones and book vouchers from MPH. The schools or institutions of grand prize winners will also get a complete computer workstation (desktop computer, printer, scanner).

Details of the essay contest can be found here, or accessed via the main Perdana page at www.perdana.org.my. The Bahasa Malaysia version is available here.

The judges of our contest are: Professor Dato' Khoo Kay Kim, and senior journalists Datuk A Kadir Jasin and Ms Hardev Kaur.

The official media for the contest are Star Publications and Kumpulan Utusan.

Essays can be submitted via online uploading. The contest runs until December 31, 2006.