Schools Competition
What’s in a phone? 2024 Schools Competition Now Open!
To participate in the schools competition, students can submit any one of the following: Artwork (photo, drawing, sculpture, painting, digital) or a Short Film (1 minute).
The theme for this year is What’s in a phone? Check out the awesome materials developed by Planet Ark about ‘what’s in a phone’ here.
Create an artwork or short film that shows what materials are in a phone, and what they can become when they’re recycled! We’re also encouraging entrants to recycle a phone – or come together as a class or school to collect a few phones – as part of their entry, via our Zoos charity program here.
The top prize is a class Virtual Zoo visit by Taronga Zoo, and a $4,000 JB Hi-Fi Gift Card. 3x Runners-Up will also receive a $1000 JB Hi-Fi gift card.
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Entries can be individual, a group, or a whole class. The judging criteria is here – bonus points for recycling a phone with your entry!
Entries can be submitted between 1st of August and the 1st of November, 2024.
The competition is free, and open to primary and secondary students in Australia during 2024. Full terms and conditions are here.
Education resources
MobileMuster partners with Cool.Org to provide lessons for Years 3-8 designed to support teachers and students to produce quality films, photographs, and drawings for the competition.
You can access the latest education resources from Cool.Org here.
Through these lessons, students are given opportunities to apply their learning in real world situations, in the classroom, school, home or the local community.
