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About 80 youths attended the Singapore 2010 Youth Olympic Games Youth Creative Retreat June 27-28 and shared with the Singapore Youth Olympic Games Organising Committee how they envisioned the world’s first youth Olympic Games would be. They also brainstormed on how young people could get involved in the Youth Games.

The 80 youths who attended the two-day retreat came from local secondary schools, junior colleges, institutes of higher learning, and other education centres and youth organizations. There were also students attending from Thailand, Vietnam Korea, the Philippines, China, Indonesia and Italy.

Among the topics brainstormed by the participants were media, spaces and places, people, Olympic Culture and Values, Educational Programs, the Arts, Culture and Heritage, Sports and Adventure, and tagline buzz.

Senior Parliamentary Secretary (Community Development, Youth and Sports) Teo Ser Luck, and the Singapore Youth Olympic Games Organising Committee team joined in to hear the discussions. The youths are being encouraged to develop their ideas further and suggest how to implement them.

Teo Ser Luck said, “I am happy that the young people are so enthusiastic about getting involved in the Youth Olympic Games. The YOG belongs to the young people and it is wonderful that they want to be part of this once-in-a-lifetime event”.

(Source: Gamesbids.com)