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People's Choice Award winners

The people have spoken! The winners are:

	Junior	Senior
ShootIT
Winner	Kai Mann-Robertson & Lochlan Broughton ‘The Letter A’	Alexandra Howard ‘The Chess Game’
Runner Up	Seamus Platt ‘Make a Move!’	Mitchell Fitzpatrick, Shannon Ryan ‘Unison’
DesignIt
Winner	Conago (Oliver) Ma ‘Rain’	Kadir Kiraz ‘It’s the inside that counts’
Runner Up	Bethany Lucas ‘Putting the Pieces Together’	Claire Nakazawa ‘Image 2’
WriteIt
Winner	Michelle Tjondro ‘Halcyon Days’	Rhiannon Wapling ‘Three Steps’
Runner Up	Thao Luong ‘The Bus’	Samuel Webster ‘Methuselah’s Last’
RockIT
Winner	Blanks ‘Give What You Get’	Midnight Ablaze ‘Running Away’
Runner Up	Joshua Belperio ‘To and From’	Brookman and Philosopher ‘Out of Sight’
SnapIt
Winner	Tatanja Ross ‘Not Another Fly On The Wall’	Jessica Pentreath ‘Don’t Blend into the Background, Make a Move!’
Runner Up	Jasmijn Tadros ‘Water Dance’	Andrew Pearce ‘Go Outside and Do Something’

National Youth Week competition winners announced

Drum roll please. . . the winners of the National Talent Competition 2009 have been announced!

Over 4,000 people entered the National Youth Week competitions in 2009, which highlights the talent and creativity of young people across Australia.

The National Talent Competition winners were chosen in five categories - RockIT (music), WriteIT (short stories), ShootIT (film), DesignIT (graphic design) and SnapIT (photography). These categories are the separated into junior and senior sections.

The winners were decided by industry experts in each field, who were impressed by the quality and originality of all the entries.

Congratulations to all the winners, and stay tuned to find out the winners of the People’s Choice award.

	Junior	Senior
ShootIT	Jemma Cotter ‘Losing my Marbles’	Andrew Ryan Ewen Hollingsworth Will Howarth 'Once Upon a Time in a Playground'
DesignIt	Rosie Coleman ‘Imagine yourself in your own shoes’	Dilshani Jayawardene ‘Be yourself. Be Beautiful.’
WriteIt	Sam Varley 'A Smaller Lump of Clay'	Ned Winn-Dix 'Steven Kay'
RockIT	Youssif Kafediysky - ‘Sweet Dreams (Always Searching)’	The Ivys ‘Give It Up’
SnapIt	Nirrimi Hakanson ‘Move it in Circles’	Katrine Skovsgaard ‘Self portrait’

NYW 2009 Wrap-up

National Youth Week 2009 ran from 28 March to 5 April with the theme ‘Make a Move’. This year we received overwhelming support for events across Australia, and almost 700 entries into the talent competitions.

Preparations for National Youth Week 2010 have already begun. The week will run from 10-18 April 2010 with a theme of ‘Live it now’.

But you don’t need to wait until next year to get involved, there is still plenty going on right here.