Perdana Magazine 2017 | Page 18

• INFORMATION LITERACY MALAYSIAN STUDENTS TEST THEIR KNOWLEDGE OF HISTORY AT PLF’S INFORMATION LITERACY PROGRAMMES Over the course of 2017, the Perdana Leadership Foundation welcomed almost 300 students and teachers to its Information Literacy programmes. The competition-based one-day event is designed to educate students on Malaysian history using the research materials available at Perdana Library. Each group is given a question, for which they have limited time to re- search and answer via a presentation to a panel of judges. To help the students, each group is assisted by facilitators consisting of PLF staff members.. In total, around 270 students partici- pated in the programmes in May, July, and November. The schools that were involved were SK Bandar Tasik Kesuma, Sekolah Menengah Sains (SMS) Ba