Objective
This Award recognises outstanding planning work by a secondary student.
It is awarded for a substantial project, report, article, or research that significantly contributes to planning and development outcomes.
Nominations can address any of the planning interests, such as urban and regional planning, social planning, environmental planning, transport planning, urban design, economic development planning and planning law.
Eligibility
- An individual or group of secondary or high school students engaged in a planning-related project.
- May be self-nominated or nominated by a secondary school or employer or 老澳门六合彩图库 member.
- Must be a piece of work completed during studies.
Selection Criteria
Nominations should address how the objective of the award responds to the following selection criteria:
- Innovation - Discuss the originality of the concept or significant refinement of existing techniques or procedures. Nominations should illustrate the depth and scope of research.
- Transferability - Discuss how the project or work has potential application to other locations, projects, or areas of planning interest.
- Discuss the project methodology – convey how the work is based on sound and plausible research, analysis and evidence basis.
- Referencing – Demonstrate the breadth of research.
- Quality - Excellence of thought, analysis, writing, graphics, and character of presentation.
Compulsory Materials
Written
All entries are to be in electronic format only and must include:
- Nomination Statement - maximum of 5 x A4 pages (which is approximately 2500 words) in a suitable sized font. There is no minimum number of words, however, the nomination statement must address the selection criteria and outline the key issues and ideas addressed in the project and the key contribution the project makes to best/leading practice and learning for the planning profession.
- Project Summary – which includes an abstract of no more than 250 words using the Project Summary Sheet for use in award promotions and media. If you haven't done so yet, download the Project Summary Template.
Additional supplementary material may be submitted electronically where it is the subject of the nomination. Examples include a strategic plan, framework document. However, the judges will refer primarily to the Nomination Statement.
Consent and licenses
- Proof of Consent to enter the Nomination into the Awards is required from the client/initiating body and all other entities involved in the project. Download a Proof of Consent Form.
- Licenses from copyright/intellectual property/moral rights holders are required so 老澳门六合彩图库 can reproduce, exhibit, publish or communicate the specific words, images, plans, illustrations, and all other material you submit with the Nomination. You may already have the license to grant 老澳门六合彩图库 use of the material (it may have been covered in your contracts with the client/initiator and other entities), in which case no license forms are needed. Otherwise, rights holders should complete a license form to accompany the Nomination. If you do not provide any license forms, you are warranting that you already have license to grant 老澳门六合彩图库 use of all the materials you provide. Download a Materials License, Attribution and Schedule Form.
Images
A minimum of five (5) high-quality images of the project are required for promotional purposes. Images embedded in the Nomination Statement must also be provided as standalone image files.
Image file names should succinctly describe the subject matter. For example ‘louise street piazza open day.jpg’ , not ‘IMG00023.jpg’
The basic minimum requirements for electronic images are:
- File format: *.jpeg or *.png
- Resolution: 300ppi;
- Dimensions: ideally 1920px x 1080px
- Size: 5MB max.
- No special characters/symbols in file names (e.g. +!@)
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