ReaDARY Challenge 2023

The ReaDARY Challenge is a competition that aims to develop reading culture among Cambodian youth especially those who are in high school and university because reading is a necessary tool to gain knowledge. With tremendous amount of knowledge that students gain from the reading, they are able to analyze particular topic with their critical thinking skill as well.

Book Selected

Go Ask Alice ( PDFDrive ).pdf

Go Ask Alice

Go Ask Alice is written as the diary of a fifteen-year-old girl's day-to-day struggle with drug addiction. Created during the height of the drug era, the girl could be anyone from this time who found him or herself seduced by the mind-altering affects of marijuana, LSD, bennies, dexies, and heroin. When the book begins, the author of the diary is an ordinary teenager with ordinary teenage concerns. She is an innocent, yearning to see what life has to offer her, and she falls in with a group of kids headed on a destructive path. Wanting desperately to be part of the popular crowd, this "innocent" girl discovers drugs, and very quickly her addition becomes uncontrollable. The girl spirals downward and finds herself trapped in a world of pushers, prostitutes, and runaway teens too stoned and too out of touch with reality to find their way back home.

Timeline of the Event

20 March – 05 April 2023: A call for participants
05 April 2023: Receiving the participants' registration.
11 April 2023: Virtual or Offline Orientation for the event
12 -28 April 2023: First round- write the reflection.
01-20 May 2023: Second round- video presentation
22 May - 10 June 2023: Committee’s discussion and grading
19 June 2023: Official result is announced.
21 or 28 July 2023: ReaDARY Challenge Awards Ceremony

Participants

There were 10 groups of students participating in this challenge. They are university students and high-school students.

There were three members in each group. Although most of them were high-school students, they were very eager to learn and challenge themselves.

All the 10 teams got competitive scores in both their paper and video submissions. The three judges were impressed by their excellent performance.

First Round-Reflection Paper

In the first round, all participating teams are required to read a book titled Go Ask Alice?. Each group need to summarize and provide insightful reflection on the story they had read. Each group amazingly produced well-written drafts that reflected their critical thinking in that particular concept.

Here is the link to the paper submission: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1AsiVaki1_A43gR7jw38_654pe_AkWoIu?usp=drive_link

Second Round-Video Presentation

Every group continued to the next round. In this round, each group needed to produce a video answering three main questions which were considered by the three judges.

Here is the link to the video submission for each participating group: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1iLHX12YjwbsaZybTJ9nJGDPFUBmrd1BL?usp=drive_link

Every group continued to the next round. In this round, each group needed to produce a video answering three main questions which were considered by the three judges.

Here is the link to the video submission for each participating group: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1iLHX12YjwbsaZybTJ9nJGDPFUBmrd1BL?usp=drive_link