Keputusan Pertandingan Toyota Eco-Youth Peringkat Kebangsaan Tahun 2009

Keputusan Pertandingan Toyota Eco-Youth Peringkat Kebangsaan Tahun 2009

Tarikh : 6-8 Oktobor 2009
Tempat: Hotel Concorde, Shah Alam. Selangor

Johan : SMK Dato Onn. Pulau Pinang
- Menerima hadiah RM 5000.00 & Sijil

Naib Johan : SMK Bandar Putra, Kulai. Johor
- Menerima hadiah RM 4000.00 & Sijil

Tempat Ke-3: SMKA Pahang, Pahang
- Menerima hadiah RM 3000.00 & Sijil

Tempat Ke-4: SMK Pantai, Labuan
- Menerima hadiah RM 2000 & Sijil

Tempat Ke-5: SMK Taman Ria Jaya, Kedah
Best Presentation: SMK Taman Ria Jaya. Kedah
- Menerima hadiah RM 1000.00

Best Exhibition: SMK St. Francis, Melaka
- Menerima hadiah RM 1000.00

Best Website: SMK Pantai, Labuan
- Menerima hadiah RM 1000.00

Tahniah!

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SMK Dato' Onn Triumphs In Toyota Eco Youth Programme

SHAH ALAM, Oct 8 (Bernama) -- Sekolah Menengah Kebangsaan (SMK) Dato' Onn Butterworth came out top in the Toyota Eco Youth Programme 2009, winning RM5,000 on Thursday.The programme is a collaboration between UMW Toyota Motor Sdn Bhd and the Education Ministry since 2001 to cultivate environmental awareness and love for the environment among high school students through environmental management projects they participate in.

SMK Dato' Onn team led by Form Four student Muhammad Ahza Mohamad Desa and comprising seven other members, captured the hearts of the panel of judges with their project to reduce, reuse and recycle water in their school.The project managed to address the high water bill in their school by fitting the more efficient spring-loaded taps in the toilets to cut water drip, harvesting rain water for reuse, and recycling laundry water using micro- organisms for watering the school garden.One of the teachers who supervised them, Chek Ramlah Abdul Samad, 51, said through the 3Rs (reduce, reuse and recycle), the school managed to reduce its water bill which was about RM600 a month by 34.8 per cent from the initial target of 20 per cent.

The first runner-up in the competition was SMK Bandar Putra, Kulai, Johor which received RM4,000 and the second runner-up, SMK Agama Pahang, Bandar Muazzam, which won RM3,000.

SMK Taman Ria Jaya, Sungai Petani, Kedah won the best presentation award, SMK St Francis Melaka won the best exhibition award, while SMK Pantai Labuan won the best website. Each of these schools received RM1,000.

UMW Toyota Motor executive director Aminar Rashid Salleh said at the closing of the competition here that the Toyota Eco Youth Programme had raised awareness and appreciation for the environment among the young.After nine years of its implementation, the company's annual corporate social responsibility programme had benefited 136 schools involving 912 participants, he said.

This year, 16 schools representing the states and federal territories participated in the competition, which was a culmination of their six-month projects before presenting them at the two-day convention and exhibition beginning on Wednesday.

Aminar Rashid said the programme would mark its 10th anniversary next year with the introduction of the "Sustainability Award" to encourage this year's participants to sustain their projects at their respective schools.The Education ministry's director of Teacher Education Dr Khair Yusuf presented the awards and prizes on behalf of Education director-general Tan Sri Alimuddin Md Dom.-- BERNAMA