As part of the commemoration of the 95th anniversary of the Gallipoli Landings, which will be commemorated in Turkey on 25 April 2010, the Prime Minister sponsored a competition to select 21 students to accompany the official party to the commemoration.
St Paul’s Collegiate School student, Sam Hogg, a Year 13 boarder from Rotorua, is one of the students chosen to join the Prime Minister on this trip, with his entry of a website he created for the competition.
The competition was open to Year 13 students within New Zealand. The brief was to make a media presentation that portrayed the significance that WW1 played in the lives of New Zealanders using Gallipoli as a case study.
Sam’s website covers the lives of an imaginary Pax family (Latin for peace) covering four generations reaching back to the time of the Gallipoli event. The characters of the Pax family are based on relatives and friends. The website incorporated a range of presentation styles including essays, a family tree and collage.
The Prime Minister’s party leaves on April 19 and returns on April 30th.
