The OCA’s Fun Run + Learn campaign to promote the 17th Asian Games in Incheon, Korea, in September 2014 resumes in Hanoi on Monday with the participation of more than 200 youngsters. The campaign contains three elements – fun run, fun learn quiz and youth reporter project – and the Vietnam Olympic Committee will conduct all three events in a full day of Olympic-related activities.
The day will begin at 6.30am with the opening ceremony of the fun run at Hanoi Amsterdam School. The run will start at 7.0am and involve 200 children in four groups, with four gold medals to be presented at the prize-giving ceremony.
After a one-hour break for breakfast from 8.0am to 9.0am, the same 200 children will join in the fun learn quiz at the school gymnasium, testing the students’ knowledge of the OCA, Asian Games and sport in general.
The final part of the campaign will be the youth reporter project involving 30 students and beginning at 1.30pm. After a 90-minute workshop based on a typical day for a sports writer at a major multi-sport event such as the Asian Games, the students will be asked to write an essay with the information they have collected.
One element of the workshop is a press conference to give the students the chance to ask questions in a setting typically to be found at a sports event, and the Vietnam Olympic Committee has invited a special guest from the sports world to answer the questions. The answers from the press conference will also provide information for the one-hour written test.
A panel of nine judges from the Vietnam Olympic Committee and OCA will select the best essay, and the prize will be presented at the official welcome reception on Monday evening at the Hanoi Daewoo Hotel. The winner will be invited to attend the 17th Asian Games in Incheon, Korea, as part of the OCA media team.
The Fun Run + Learn campaign began in 2012 to introduce the Asian Games to a new, young audience around the continent. Officials from the Incheon Asian Games Organising Committee will also attend Monday’s festivities.