This has been a fascinating experiment, organsing the inaugural eco-speaker award for the inaugural Greenbuild and ecoshow. We had no idea what was going to happen when we took on the challenge, but we are very glad we did. The project snowballed over the last few months as it became incorporated into the Australian Schools Challenge. We now have some very good ideas for how to do it bigger and better next year. We thank all the entrants for being our guinea-pigs in this experiment, you have made it easy for us to commit to developing this whole thing into the future. Not only we been shown that there is an interest in such a competition but we have also been touched by the depth of feeling, understandings and positivity in the presentations.

Unfortunately “technical difficulties” prevent us from announcing the winner of the competition until the award ceremony on Sunday the 11th June as part of the Australian Schools challenge. We considered ourselves too biased and the entrants, who have taken the process so seriously, deserve a fair process. We felt it was important to get an unbiased judge, so we have asked Qld. Senator Andrew Bartlett, who will be visiting the eco-show on Saturday 10th, to make the final decision about who will win the Australian Young Eco-Speaker 2006 award.

The winner will be posted on this site as soon as we can get to a computer after the award ceremony.

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