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An Inter vie w with F a ce Ma sk Designing
An Interview with Face Mask Designing
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Th awareness campaign which drew
Reported by: How Yu En Sr1ScC
attention to this competition and also
because of the plentiful time that was
A few months ago, the Kuen Cheng High School Committee on COVID-19 Prevention given. Students had more time and
held a mask designing competition (战 “疫”) for all students to participate. We are energy to let their creativity roam freely,
honoured to have interviewed the person-in-charge of this competition, Chew Ern Tong. and design their face mask according to
their will after the exam week.

Person-in-charge:
Chew Ern Tong
Q1: What was the main purpose of organising this event?
This competition is one of the competitions under Kuen
Cheng High School’s COVID-19 Prevention activity. The
main purpose is to let students design their own unique
protective masks while letting their creativity run free. Q5: What are your thoughts on this competition? Are you happy with the outcome? Are

In the meantime, it also allows students to realise that they any improvements that need to be made?
masks are common nowadays and to raise awareness of In terms of the number of participants and quality of the work, we are very delighted
COVID-19 prevention. and satisfied. At first, the Committee Members were worried that no one would join

the competition, but the results were out of our expectations. We were amazed by the
creativity and effort shown in their work.
Q2: What are the difficulties that were faced during the
preparation of the event? How were they resolved?

When the competition first started, there were not many
participants as the students were busy studying for their Everything was fine until the results were announced, as there were some mistakes on
exams. Therefore, we extended the due date from 31/5 the poster. We should have double-checked before posting the results to make sure the
to 12/6. We also sought help from the class monitors to information is correct, especially the minor details.
promote the competition in their respective classes.

Q6: Being in the post-pandemic era, will the competition be organised again in the

coming year? Why?
Q3. What was learnt while preparing for the competition? There is a lot of uncertainty about this. If the pandemic is under control in the coming
Personally, I learnt a lot regarding communication. That’s year, and wearing a mask has already been deep-rooted, then there is no need for this
because while preparing for the competition, we needed activity to be organised again, and this is no doubt a good thing.

to communicate with other committee members and the
teacher-in-charge about our ideas, update our progress,
discuss proposals etc, so communication is definitely the
main point here, as we needed to communicate to resolve Last but not least, congratulations to all the winners!
problems, work together to get the job done, and with

that the competition went smoothly.

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