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Logan who is delighted to have won the competition said: "I wanted to choose an Inuit name because these people are from the same areas of the world as polar bears and their names have great meanings. I looked up lots of Inuit names on the internet and knew that ‘Sangilak’ was the best because it meant ‘strongest of all’. "I was so excited when we got the telephone call to say I was the winner in Europe. I jumped up and down - I thought Mum was joking! My class were really excited when I told them. I can't wait to use my new Canon camera that I won as well, to photograph my friends and animals. It is also really exciting that my school friends and I can learn about the polar bears with WWF when they come to visit us." As part of his prize, Logan received a Canon PowerShot IXUS SX210 IS digital camera and a one year WWF membership as well as WWF polar bear adoption packs for himself and every pupil in his class. Logan also won the chance to have a presentation at his school from WWF. Pam Carter, Head Teacher of Cop Lane Primary School said: “All of us at Cop Lane CE Primary School are very proud of Logan's success in winning the amazing prize of a Canon camera. We are a school that values immensely independent learning styles and wider, creative approaches to learning so we are delighted that Logan's research skills produced this quite unique Polar bear name and we hope that he has many happy hours using his camera to record amazing images of creation. The school's eco council are particularly delighted that the message of caring for our environment is well embedded and we hope that all of us at our school can play our part." Logan and his classmates can now follow Sangilak on the WWF-Canon Polar Bear Tracker website. They can also find out more about polar bears through the Canon Kids’ Zone website which teaches children about the conservation of polar bears and the Arctic region and is ‘hosted’ by two animated polar bears called ‘Auro’ and ‘Borea’. It uses educational games, trivia and fact sheets themed around the Arctic environment to interact with children and, as well as educational fun for them, it also provides teacher packs and resources for parents. For more information on the WWF-Canon Polar Bear Tracker programme and the Canon Kids Zone website visit:
http://wwf.panda.org/what_we_do/where_we_work/arctic/area/species/polarbear/polar_bear/
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