Cultural Diversity Quest

The Cultural Diversity Quest is a key element of Cultural Diversity Week and is designed to help raise young people's awareness of Victoria's cultural and linguistic diversity. It provides school communities with the opportunity to reflect on and celebrate this diversity and underlines that diversity is everybody's business.

The Quest is conducted by the Department of Education and Early Childhood Development and the Victorian Multicultural Commission, and supported by the Immigration Museum, the Modern Language Teachers Association of Victoria (MLTAV), the Catholic Education Commission of Victoria (CECV), and Independent Schools Victoria. The MLTAV sponsors the Cultural Diversity Quest exhibition.

The Quest is a great way to engage both junior and senior students in shared activities, while promoting messages of acceptance and harmony. Working together on their entries, students not only learn about different cultures and languages they also discover more about each other’s heritage in a positive, inclusive environment.

All Victorian students, teachers, schools and school clusters (three or more schools) are invited to submit an entry about their experience of cultural diversity in one or more of the Award Categories

2012 entries

The Cultural Diversity Quest 2012 is now open and entry closes on Wednesday, 22 February 2012.  

Representatives from winning schools will be invited to an Awards Ceremony during Cultural Diversity Week in March 2012.