Have you ever participated in Olympic Games? During these four years of study, we classmates had chances to take part in two Olympic Games - believe it or not! They were the Computer Olympics '87 and '88.
The Computer Olympic was a series of sports and intellectual competitions. The objectives of the Games were:
To give a chance for classmates to know each other;
To raise the interest of classmates in sports activities;
To select outstanding game players from our classmates to represent our class to compete in inter-class sport competitions; and
To inspire the sense of belonging of classmates to the class.
The first Computer Olympic took place in 1987. It happened at the beginning of Term Three in Year One. It was organised by Daniel Chan. There were eight events: basketball, scrabble, bowling, table-tennis, football, chinese chess, chinese billiards, and orienteering. Classmates were excited about these games. Most of the indoor events were carried out in Mongkok Campus, like scrabble, table tennis, chinese chess and chinese billiards. Bowling was carried out in a bowling centre near Mongkok (is it Four Sea?) Football and bastketball league took place in a park of Kwun Tong.
The most exciting game during that year's Olympic was orienteering. It was an adventure game where grouped classmates had to run through a long journey. During the journey, the participants had to search for some hints hidden at various points in Shek Kip Mei. The hints would guide them to their next target. This game demanded cooperation among group members (when searching a location for hints) and individual's stamina (to finish the long...long journey).
The second Computer Olympic was organised in 1988. The game started, again, in the third term of Year Two. Initially, nine games were planned: basketball, scrabble, table tennis, marble chess, football, chinese billiards, chinese chess, and darting and orienteering. Owing to the time contraint and the high pressure from tons of assignments, the organizing committee suggested to cancel the Game. Fortunately, with the support from our dear classmates and the sacrifice of time on the side of all the committee members, the Game was made possible, though one event was put off: orienteering.
We did not organize any Olympics in Year Four, because everybody was busy for their final-year projects and graduation examinations.
I wish every classmate had enjoyed themselves from participating in the two Computer Olympics. I also wish they could bring those joys to other people when they have the chance to organise mass games in the future.
Finally, I must thank those event organisers for their valuable support in the Games and also the classmates for their participation.
Gary