Academy of Enterprising Girls Competition
DUNK YA JUNK
Young Change Agents Enrichment Program
In August, Alexia Petrovski, Angelina Moulas, Daniella Avtaroski, Emma Collins, Nicole Bourke and Occy Lucas participated in an enrichment program run by Young Change Agents. This program is based on design thinking and business development. It is a great opportunity to expose the girls to skills that could shape their future pathways. During this day the students were asked to think about ways in which they could help the environment. This is where Dunk Ya Junk was born.
Feedback from the Judges: A very well defined problem with an innovative solution that is very likely to work. Rallying the troops at school around well known songs with altered lyrics is absolutely a fun way to attack an environmental problem. The basketball approach is also clever and innovative. Enrolling a community to address a problem like this heightens your chance of achieving your goal. Your proposed rewards and consequences are also creative and actionable.
Excitingly, Dunk Ya Junk was chosen to progress to the next round - Mini Youth Incubator where the girls were able to further build their idea. During the Mini Youth Incubator, which was held in October over 2 days, the girls had the opportunity to engage with industry professionals, who guided and mentored the girls on their pitch of the final product.
Mrs Brooke Tomajka
Report by Emma Collins
Dunk Ya Junk is an initiative we came up with to promote putting your litter in the bin, to help clean up schools' litter problems. As a group we collaborated and went through the design thinking process to come up with the idea of Dunk Ya Junk including things like prototyping, understanding our why and creating a logo to help others identify our product. We hoped this idea would help to create a movement that future generations could be a part of.
The Dunk Ya Junk initiative consists of putting your rubbish in the bin in a fun way by having bins with detachable basketball hoops which you throw your litter into to make it an inviting, engaging game for all ages. We hope that this initiative could help get young people involved to learn how important it is to put your rubbish in the bin. We also thought of other fun activities to interest people in participating in the Dunk Ya Junk concept with competitions of our school bell music etc.
We also thought of the possibility of reaching out to involve other members of the community such as the Hawks basketball team, Shellharbour City Council etc. Therefore as a group we hope that Dunk Ya Junk could make a difference in our community if implemented and will provide the tools and resources we need to create a more sustainable environment for future generations.