BP Education Grants Presentation Function

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BP Education Grants Presentation Function - 1
Friday, 6th of August, 1999 - Cottesloe Civic Centre

06/08/1999

Western Australian BP Education Grants were presented at a function at Cottelsoe Civic Centre on Friday 6 August. The special guest for the evening, the Minister for Education, the Hon. Colin Barnett congratulated BP Australia for continuing with the Grants for Schools program. He said that he was looking forward to being associated with this partnership between BP Australia and the Education Department of Western Australia. In his welcome address, Mr Peter West said that BP Kwinana Refinery is proud to have established a number of initiatives involving partnerships between industry and education.

Representatives from 20 schools who attended the function were presented with the awards by the Acting Director General for Education, Mr Peter Browne and the Community Affairs Manager for BP Australia, Mr Alex Anderson.

The MC for the evening, Mr Peter Newman invited six of the schools present to briefly outline their projects. Students and staff from these took the opportunity to show how the BP Education Grants were being applied.

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Awards were presented by the Acting Director General Education Department (WA) and Community Affairs Manager (BP Australia).
Kwinana Senior High School received a Grant for their project, Planning and designing a reading and recreation area for students.

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Denmark Agricultural College received Grant for their project researching Trout survival in Fresh and Salt water.
The College gave a brief presentation outlining the project and gave the guests at the function an opportunity to taste wine produced through a project funded by BP Australia in 1998.

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Students, teachers and principals from schools joined representatives of Education Department of Western Australia and BP Australia at a Dinner function for the presentation of the BP Education Grants 1999.

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The Minister for Education, Hon Colin Barnett presents the keynote address at the BP Education Grants Presentation function.

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