Singapore will be hosting the first Youth Olympic Games from 14 to 26 August 2010. It will receive some 3,600 athletes and 800 officials from 205 National Olympic Committees, along with estimated 800 media representatives, 20,000 local and international volunteers, and more than 500,000 spectators.Young athletes - between 14 and 18 years of age - will compete in 26 sports and take part in Culture and Education Programme. The Singapore 2010 Youth Olympic Games will create a lasting sports, culture and education legacy for Singapore and youths from around the world, as well as enhance and elevate the sporting culture locally and regionally.

For more information, please visit Singapore Youth Olympic Games website : http://www.singapore2010.sg/

Olympic Education Programme @ Canberra

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Lumix National Schools Photo-Art Competition:  In Celebration of the Singapore 2010 Youth Olympic Games

In collaboration with the Singapore Youth Olympic Games Organizing Committee (SYOGOC), Canberra Secondary School (CSS) is organising the National Schools Photo-Art Competition 2009.
 
The theme ‘Youth In Action’ which captures youth engaged in various activities (not necessarily limited to sport) was chosen for this year’s competition in celebration of the Youth Olympic Games and Olympic Education.
 
We would like to invite your pupils to participate in this photo-art competition.

The objectives of this competition and exhibition are to:

a.      provide opportunities for our youths to be engaged in the Olympic Movement, Youth Olympic Games and Olympic Education;

b.      provide a platform to showcase our youths actively participating in outdoor activities, community involvement projects, diverse cultures and sports; and

c.      provide a platform to raise the visibility of aspiring young photography and creative graphic talents.

For more information and news updates, please visit our site at: http://www.canberrasec.net/photoart09/

Friends @ YOG

Syria

	Syria (Arabic: سورية‎ sūriyya or سوريا sūryā), officially the Syrian Arab Republic (Arabic: الجمهورية العربية السورية‎), is a country in Western Asia, bordering Lebanon and the Mediterranean Sea to the west, Turkey to the north, Iraq to the east, Jordan to the south and Israel to the southwest.The total area of Syria is 185,180 square kilometres (71,479 sq mi) and its capital is Damascus.
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Haiti

Haiti (pronounced /ˈheɪtiː/; French Haïti, pronounced: [a.iti]; Haitian Creole: Ayiti), officially the Republic of Haiti (République d'Haïti ; Repiblik Ayiti), is a Creole- and French-speaking Caribbean country. Along with the Dominican Republic, it occupies the island of Hispaniola, in the Greater Antillean archipelago. Ayiti (Land of high mountains) was the indigenous Taíno or Amerindian name for the mountainous western side of the island. The total area of Haiti is 27,750 square kilometres (10,714 sq mi) and its capital is Port-au-Prince.

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Friends@YOG Activities in colloboration with Endeavour Primary & Canberra Primary: