About 100 teachers and students attended the Prove It! Competition awards ceremony at 9am last Saturday, 23 Mar 2013.

The winners of the Infographics segment of the competition received their prizes from Mr Gene Tan (Director, National Library), while Mrs Koh-Kiang Lai Lin (Director, Reading Initiatives) gave out the second and third prizes for the Regional round of the Research Challenge.

The top teams from the Regional round and the top 3 teams in the Finals received their respective awards from Mrs Elaine Ng, Chief Executive Officer of the National Library Board.

In her speech, Mrs Ng underscored the importance of Information Literacy in a fast-paced, hyper-connected world where information is readily accessible, and where massive amounts of information and data are being generated daily.  She also took the opportunity to announce the upcoming Information Literacy awareness campaign which will use simple catchphrases like S.U.R.E. - which stands for Source, Understand, Research and Evaluate –  so that the man on the street can better understand Information Literacy.

The ceremony concluded with light refreshments for all guests.

PROVE IT! Project Team:

• Roy Won Kar Soon (Project Manager)
• Yasmin Ally
• Peter Chan Khin Meng
• Norah bte Ismail
• Koh Wei Lian
• Grace Sim Siew Fang
• Tay Pei Lin
• Damien Wang Khang Cheh

Photo credits: Mark Soh Zhi Hao

We have the Top 3 teams for the Final round of the Prove It! Research Challenge held last Friday, 22 Mar 2013, at the National Library.

Congratulations to the following teams:

Nanyang Girls’ High School (First Prize)

Ke Shiyao
Kwa Mei Jun
Chew Sue Ning Shermaine
Quek Xiao Tong (reserve)

Victoria School Team A (Second Prize)

Keith Low Jun
Soh Se Yeong
Ng Zheng Jie
Glenn Chan Yan Zhi (Reserve)

Hwa Chong Institution (Third Prize)

Kervin Tay Wee Shing
Ethan Lee
Tan Hong Kai
Denton Tng Jia Le (reserve)

PRIZE SCHEDULE

Prove It! Research Challenge (Finals):
1st prize: $1,000 + challenge trophy + 4 sets of iPod Shuffle
2nd prize: $500 + challenge trophy + 4 sets of iPod Shuffle
3rd prize: $300 + challenge trophy
All prize winners also received Certificates of Achievement.

The National Library Board organised the National Prove It! Competition for secondary school students, to challenge their ability to seek information and develop a strong aptitude for research.

In Phase 1 (mid-Nov 2012 to end-Feb 2013)  participating teams were required to design information graphics (or infographics) based on selected Information Literacy topics.

There were many commendable entries and the judges were impressed by the quality of the infographics received.

FIRST PRIZE:

Chung Cheng High School (Main)
Tan Siow Hoon
Tan Jie Rou
Caroline Sartono
Eldred Sng Hui Yeong

SECOND PRIZE:

Commonwealth Secondary School
Koh Qi
Andrea Koh Kai Xin
Lester Ng Keng Hui
Anwardeen Isrin Farhana

THIRD PRIZE:

Hwa Chong Institution
Kervin Tay Wee Shing
Ethan Lee
Denton Tng Jia Le
Ian Wong Kai Jing

MERIT AWARD:

Anglo-Chinese School (Barker Road) – Team B
Aaron Lim
Sean Ang
Yeo Kang Sheng
Isaac Lim

MERIT AWARD:

Hwa Chong Institution
Kervin Tay Wee Shing
Ethan Lee
Denton Tng Jia Le
Ian Wong Kai Jing

The NLB PROVE IT! Competition is an inter-school competition that aims to make learning fun and challenge students’ ability to seek information and develop a strong aptitude for research.

The Regional rounds were on Monday, 18 Mar 2013, and concurrent sessions were held at Tampines Regional Library (Eastern Region), Jurong Regional Library (Western Region), Woodlands Regional Library (Northern Region)and Bishan Public Library (Central Region), to ensure that each of the 63 teams had reasonable access to library resources. Each region would have 3 winners that will move on to the Finals on Friday, 22 Mar 2013.

Students worked in teams of three to answer 30 research questions within an hour. The questions were based on a variety of topics. For example:

• What is the largest library in the world?
• How tall is the Three Gorges Dam in China?
• What are the 2 main chemical elements of the Sun?
• Which country is Timbuktu in?

Apart from attempting to answer each and every question, the students had to PROVE each correct answer (1 point) by using at least two of types of information sources: a credible website (2 points), NLB’s electronic resources (3 points) or a print resource (4 points) from the hosting library’s collection. Each of these were covered in detail during the information literacy training sessions held on the first week of Mar 2013.

There was intense competition amongst the teams of students, and the librarians marshalling the events observed a variety of tactics employed by the teams. For instance, some teams relied more heavily on non-print resources to answer more questions (thus foregoing the 4 points for print resources), while others preferred a holistic approach for each question (thus risking the ability to complete all 30 questions). Some teams stayed together while others split the answer booklets into 3 parts to cover more ground. To their credit, no team was disqualified for breaking the rules (e.g cheating, misplacing or hogging of books, late submission).

The list of 12 regional winners are posted HERE.

Check out the photos of the teams in action below:

We have the Top 12 teams for the Regional round of the Prove It! Competition (Research Challenge)!   Apart from winning the prizes as regional champions, they will be eligible for the Top 3 prizes when they meet for the Final round this Friday, 22 Mar 2013, at the National Library.

Congratulations to the following teams:

Bishan Public Library (Central Region):

Raffles Institution Team A (First place)
Aveek Goswami
Matthias Enrui Thummachai
Muhammad Asyraaf Bin Sajahan
Brayden Tang Jia Jun (Reserve)

Holy Innocents’ High School Team B (Second place)
Felicia Lim
Ng Jun Sheng
Teng Hau Wei

Yuying Secondary School Team A (Third place)
Zhou Lisha
Zhu Yu Qin
Jasmine Loh
Genevlene Ho (Reserve)

Jurong Regional Library (Western Region):

Hwa Chong Institution (First place) 
Kervin Tay Wee Shing
Ethan Lee
Tan Hong Kai
Denton Tng Jia Le (reserve)

Zhenghua Secondary School (Second place)
Ong Jac Leng Jaclyn
Tan Jia Yun
Muhammed Noorhairee
Douglas Ang Song Jie (reserve)

Nanyang Girls’ High School (Third place)
Ke Shiyao
Kwa Mei Jun
Chew Sue Ning
Shermaine Quek Xiao Tong (reserve)

Tampines Regional Library (Eastern Region):

Victoria School Team A (First place)
Keith Low Jun
Soh Se Yeong
Ng Zheng Jie
Glenn Chan Yan Zhi (Reserve)

Victoria School Team B (Second place)
Tham En, Keeve
Brandt Ong Ren
Asaph Heng Sing En
Ryan See Zhuo Yang (Reserve)

Ngee Ann Secondary School Team B (Third place)
Jonathan Chang
Abel Yeow
Rebecca Yang

Woodlands Regional Library (Northern Region):

Ang Mo Kio Secondary School Team A (First place)
Amabel Yeo Yi Jia
Sheryl Seah Wen Xin
Tan Jia Ying
Chen Xuan Ying (Reserve)

Compassvale Secondary School Team B (Second place)
Joey Tee
Lee Wenting
Chan Xuan Yun
Lim Jin Yee (Reserve)

Naval Base Secondary School Team A (Third place)
Priyanka Maurya d/o Ramesh C
Vivien Hung Meng Yun
Kesshini d/o Ramesh Kumar
Ong Xuan Rong (Reserve)

PRIZE SCHEDULE

Prove It! Research Challenge (Regionals):
1st prize: $300 worth of gift vouchers
2nd prize: $200 worth of gift vouchers
3rd prize: $100 worth of gift vouchers
There will be a total of 12 prizes (three winners per region). All regional prize winners will also receive Certificates of Achievement. All other participating students will receive Certificates of Participation.

Prove It! Research Challenge (Finals):
1st prize: $1,000 + challenge trophy + 4 sets of iPod Shuffle
2nd prize: $500 + challenge trophy + 4 sets of iPod Shuffle
3rd prize: $300 + challenge trophy
All prize winners will also receive Certificates of Achievement.

Photos from Woodlands Regional Library