SERIAN: SMK Serian is making a bid to enter the Malaysia Book of Records by producing 5,000 1Malaysia logos in a day.

Some 2,800 students are targeting to colour and decorate that many logos in the “1Student, 1Logo, 1Malaysia” programme.

Programme coordinator S. Sivanesvaran said a school in Negri Sembilan aimed at coming up with 14,000 logos in four months.

Confident: Ramli (standing, centre), Sivanesvaran (left) along with teachers and students holding up the 1Malaysia logos. Some 2,800 students are targeting to colour and decorate 5,000 logos in the ‘1Student, 1Logo, 1Malaysia’ programme.

“However, we hope to come up with 5,000 logos in a day. We have the morning and afternoon session students working on it,” he told reporters when met at the school yesterday.

Sivanesvaran said that school decided to take on the challenge as it wanted to do something different this time around instead of just getting together for the National Day.

He said this would also spur the imagination and creativity of the students.

“We will only know how much we have done tomorrow (today) and we will contact the Malaysia Book of Records,” he said.

The school principal Ramli Zainuddin said the programme was also a way of making the students feel the 1Malaysia concept instead of just saying it.

“It’s not enough for us to keep telling them about 1Malaysia. We need to let them feel the concept and foster closer bonds among themselves through the programme,” he said.

When asked about the programme, student Matheson Asang Maxwell, 17, felt it would be a proud moment for them if they achieved the record.

“This is the first attempt in Sarawak and it will be great to make history by getting into the Malaysia Book of Records,” he said.

Matheson said the students would also feel the competitive spirit since their art work would be judged individually too for creativity and beauty.