The latest winner of the Olympic Council of Asia’s Fun Learn quiz is 16-year-old Sonam Choden from Dechencholing Middle Secondary School in Thimphu. Sonam emerged victorious from a starting field of 120 students packed into the main hall of Lungtenzampa Middle Secondary School on Friday morning – the first day of the OCA’s two-day Fun Learn and Youth Reporter Project, held in conjunction with the 2014 Incheon Asian Games Organising Committee (IAGOC) and Bhutan Olympic Committee.

A series of questions testing the students’ knowledge of the Asian Games, the Olympic Council of Asia and of sports technicalities gradually eliminated her rivals and left her as the last girl standing in the Fun Learn quiz. “This morning when I arrived at the school I did not think I could win this competition,” she said in a post-quiz interview to her fellow students. “I am so glad and so happy.”

A 14-year-old schoolgirl from Thimphu won the Bhutan leg of the Olympic Council of Asia’s Youth Reporter Project on Saturday. Lilly Yangchen, a keen writer from the school which hosted the event, Lungtenzampa Middle Secondary School, came out on top from a high-quality entry of 51 essays. Her reward is a trip to the 17th Asian Games in Incheon, Korea, in 2014 to work as part of the OCA media team.

“I am so excited to win this,” she said, after receiving her prize from the President of the Bhutan Olympic Committee, His Royal Highness Prince Jigyel Ugyen Wangchuck. “I have enjoyed writing since my childhood and I have always been inspired by journalism.”

The special guest at the Youth Reporter Project was Bhutan’s London 2012 Olympic Games archer Sherab Zam, who attended the Press Conference section of the seminar along with her coach, Tshering Choden, an Olympic archer in 2000 and 2004.

The prizes were presented by the President of the Bhutan Olympic Committee, His Royal Highness Prince Jigyel Ugyen Wangchuck, Vahid Kardany from the OCA and by the leader of the IAGOC delegation in Bhutan, Lee Byung Gook, Director General of Cultural Events.

Sonam Choden and Lilly Yangchen with the officials

Source: ocasia.org