A big thank you to everyone who submitted entries this year. There was a wide range of topics, styles, messages and reflections across all the entries.
The Cove Team assessed all entries and provided a shortlist to our judges to make the final determination as to who would win a limited-edition Cove Coin and Cove pack, plus:
- 1st prize: $3,000 for a PME / PD conference attendance including travel.
- 2nd prize: 12 months Audible subscription and a $300 gift voucher to Booktopia.
- 3rd prize: 6 months Audible subscription and a $200 gift voucher to Booktopia.
It was a tough task for our judges so they had to remain focussed on the key criteria of the task to differentiate the quality of the submissions. The judges used this marking guide to score the judging criteria of:
- Presentation: quality of writing, or other multimedia (rank appropriate)
- Relevance: value of your lessons to Army
- Insight: depth of reflection
Keep a close eye on The Cove this week because every day a submission will be published in reverse placing order.
The results are as follows:
- 1st Place: CAPT (Army) Sean Gwynne – Do Something!
- 2nd Place: LTCOL Kathryn Ames – Becoming the Brush Turkey
- 3rd Place: SPR Bryn Smith – Reflections on Psychological Rank
- 4th Place: SCDT Claire Withrington – Learning to Lead with Moral Courage
- 5th place: SCDT Madison Lang – Training Violence, Teaching Emotional Intelligence: Dichotomies in the Modern Warfighter
