Pick a country which will be participating in YOG 2010 and introduce the country in the form of a powerpoint presentation. Topics that you can research on may include but are not limited to:

• Significance of the Country’s flag
• Language
• Culture and tradition
• Food
• Traditional dress
• Weather
• Geographical Location
• Past Olympic heroes
• Strong sporting area

You may include facts, knowledge, ideas and feelings about the given topics. The powerpoint presentation must consist of 2 to 4 slides.

Make sure that you have the necessary software.

You need the tools that enable you to prepare a nice presentation. We recommend that you use Microsoft Powerpoint but IF you do not have the software, you may also use Open Office Impress.

Microsoft Powerpoint helps you to create nice presentation slides easily.

If you do not have the application installed in your home computer, you can check with your teachers if you can use the application in your school’s computer lab.

Open Office Impress can be used if you don’t have Microsoft Powerpoint. It is free and can be downloaded via the internet. The official site for Open Office is: http://www.openoffice.org/

• Learn more about Open Office: http://why.openoffice.org/
• Download Open Office

Basic knowledge of Powerpoint
If you need some help with using the application, you can find help from these links:

• http://www.teachersfirst.com/getsource.cfm?id=7592 (Needs Quicktime)
• http://www.actden.com/pp2007/index.htm
• http://cel.colgate.edu/howto/powerpoint/pc/

If you are using Open Office Impress, you can access the tutorials here:

• Flash Tutorial: http://www.learnopenoffice.org/ui.html
• HTML Tutorial: http://www.learnopenoffice.org/contents.htm

Choose a country
Which country do you want to introduce?

There are 205 countries taking part in the Youth Olympic Games 2010! You can choose from the list of countries here.

You may research the countries using the following websites:
http://www.factmonster.com/countries.html
http://kids.nationalgeographic.com/Places/Find/
http://www.timeforkids.com/TFK/hh/goplaces/
http://encyclopedia.kids.net.au

Marks will be awarded according to the language, tone, purpose and creativity of your entries.