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UEM Land Cultivates Green Habits among Young School Children

Nusajaya: 24 June 2010: More than 200 students participated in a simple yet fun and joyful prize giving ceremony held at three participating schools; SK Nusantara, SK Taman Nusa Perintis 1 and SK Tiram Duku in UKM-UEM Land Green Program yesterday. The prize giving ceremony was organized as a culmination of the Projek Hijau program that was launched last April by UKM Vice Chancellor, Prof. Tan Sri Dato’ Dr. Sharifah Hapsah Binti Syed Hasan.

A total of 120 students from year 4 and 5, (with 40 entries per school) participated in the Green Log Book activity which required students to record their personal daily efforts to go green, like switching off lights, reducing use of water, cycling to school, etc. The competition was conducted for a period of one month and the log books were then collected and assessed by UKM’s climate change team for carbon and energy footprint computation for each student to determine the winners. The students with the highest involvement and scores were announced as the winners.

The three winners, Hanna Karishma Binti Bakhtiar of SK Taman Nusantara, Nor Hedayah Maheran of SK Taman Nusa Perintis 1 and Muhamad Zulkifli Mohd Fauzi brought home a bicycle worth RM400 each. While two lucky winners from each school for the second place took home an MP3 player and a school bag worth RM180. A school bag was given as a token for the third place.

At the same event, the winners for ‘Ton-ton and Gambi Go Green’ Quiz which was organized during the launching ceremony last April were also announced and received their prizes yesterday.

The ceremony was graced by the presence of Professor Sharifah Mastura Syed Abdullah, Dean of Faculty of Social Science and Head of Niche Climate Change, UKM, who also presented the prizes to all the winners. Also present was Puan Karimah Tan Abdullah, General Manager, Corporate Communication.