Egmont Village School pupils Tayla Cade and Jackson Cordery are taking their Driving Down Speed message to a national conference in Napier next month.
Tayla and Jackson, are in a group of seven schoolchildren from Taranaki schools and will each prepare and present a speech on road safety around their schools.
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children were selected to present at the Injury Prevention Network of Aotearoa New Zealand (IPNANZ) Weaving the Strands 2007 conference on October 29.
The Year-7 pupils are in the Egmont Village School Forward Thinkers class, and as a group, worked on the road safety project.
Tayla and Jackson both agreed that it was a little scary to speak in front of a whole lot of people, and that there were more pros than cons in getting people to reduce their speed.
"It is going to boost my confidence a lot to speak in front of a lot of people, and I feel lucky to be chosen to do this," said Tayla.
The school's road safety presentation is part of the local KIDDS (Kids Involved in Driving Down Speed) project.
The children's presentations will focus on a recent road safety project in which local children took to the streets to measure vehicle speeds around their school. The project highlighted a number of road safety concerns including excessive vehicle speed, congestion and parking issues around schools.
New Plymouth Police youth education officer Anna Duncan, who worked closely with the schools on the road safety project, will lead the presentation.
The cost of the children's flights have been funded by New Plymouth injury Safe Trust and Roadsafe Taranaki.
The IPNANZ conference, which runs every two years, offers an opportunity for those working in the injury prevention field to share ideas and innovative practice, as well as celebrating the significant role injury prevention projects play across the country.
