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Mullen Students' Orangutan Video Released
The video was entered in a Philadelphia Zoo contest aiming to increase awareness of the connection between palm oil and orangutans.
A group of students at Ann A. Mullen Middle School recently completed a video about palm oil's impact on the world's orangutan population.
The 10 eight-grade students, joined by three sixth-graders who created a Wiki page detailing the organutans' plight in connection with the eradication of natural palm oil trees, are entered in a Philadelphia Zoo contest.
The zoo's 2012 UNLESS Contest includes nearly 300 schools from across the Delaware Valley. All participants were charged with promoting the use of products that include palm oil from sustainable sources.
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The Mullen Middle students' video, which is three-and-a-half minutes long, premiered on the school's morning news program, Day Break, earlier this week. It was then posted on YouTube.
As part of the contest, Mullen Middle communications technology instructor Patti McBride also put together a two-minute video that includes photos of the 13 students working on the project over the past two months.
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Both videos are available here on Gloucester Township Patch.
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