Singapore, 13 March 2009 – Want to create your own comic strip? From 9 to 11 June 09, secondary 3 students can learn about Copyright and comic illustration techniques from experts at the IP Champion Camp organised by iperckidz, the Intellectual Property Office of Singapore’s (IPOS) education and outreach initiative for students and teachers. The camp is organised with the support of the Ministry of Education and in partnership with ITE College Central (Tampines), the Singapore Discovery Centre and local animation company, VividThree Productions.
The annual IP Champion Camp aims to introduce intellectual property (IP) concepts to students and equip them with the necessary skills to share their IP knowledge with their peers. This year’s theme is “Create Your Own IP” and participants will incorporate the copyright concepts, illustration techniques and storyboarding skills learned during the camp and pit their creativity skills against one another to develop a comic strip in a creative comic strip competition to be held on the third day of the camp.
The comic illustrations will be judged by a panel of industry specialists from the multimedia and animation field as well as polling from fellow participants. The winner will be crowned the IP Champion 2009 and awarded a 2-week internship with VividThree Productions to produce a 30-second animation clip which will be showcased as part of IPOS’ promotional campaign for 2010. Besides the internship programme, the winner will also receive an IP Champion Trophy for his/her school, where the trophy can be displayed for a year till the next IP Champion emerges in 2010.
From March 2009, school tours will be conducted to publicise the camp and students will get a preview of the 30-second animation clip produced by last year’s IP Champion, Tan Wiphaporn from Ahmad Ibrahim Secondary School during her internship with VividThree Productions. Besides using the clip as an educational resource in IPOS’ outreach programmes, Starhub Cable’s Animax Channel will also be screening the clip from April to June 2009.
Log on to www.iperckidz.gov.sg for more information or to sign up to participate in the camp. A copy of the provisional programme is attached in Annex A.
For media enquiries, please contact:
Jasline Yeow (Ms)
Public Outreach Department
Intellectual Property Office of Singapore
DID: 6330 2705
Fax: 6339 0252
Email: jasline_yeow@ipos.gov.sg
Tan Mei Jue (Ms)
Public Relations Department
Intellectual Property Office of Singapore
DID: +65 6331 6581
Fax: +65 6331 6562
Email: tan_mei_jue@ipos.gov.sg
The Intellectual Property Office of Singapore (IPOS), a statutory board under the Ministry of Law since April 2001, is the lead government agency that advises on and administers intellectual property (IP) laws, promotes IP awareness and provides the infrastructure to facilitate the development of IP in Singapore. With IP fast becoming a critical resource in today’s new economy, IPOS’s vision is to foster a creative Singapore where ideas and intellectual efforts are valued, developed and exploited. More information on IPOS can be found on www.ipos.gov.sg.
iperckidz is an Intellectual Property (IP) education and outreach initiative for students and teachers. iperckidz maintains an online resource at www.iperckidz.gov.sg which provides educational resources in various forms like e-learning modules, comics, articles and information on the various programmes for schools like Assembly Talks and IP Champion Camps that are designed to make learning IP fun and easy. Join our icon, Detective IP, on his journey to "Be Curious, Investigate IP". More information on iperckidz can be found on www.iperckidz.gov.sg.
The IP Champion Camp is an annual 3-day boot camp for secondary students to learn about Copyright and comic illustration techniques. One of the highlights of the camp is a Creative Comic Strip Competition for students to apply what they have learnt and create their own 3 – 6 frame comic strip to educate fellow students about Copyright. The winner of IP Champion Camp 2008 is Tan Wiphaporn from Ahmad Ibrahim Secondary School. She was awarded a 2-week internship programme with local animation company, VividThree Productions to learn and produce a 30-second animation clip based on her winning comic strip, which will be used as IPOS’ educational resource in 2009.