Under the pandemic, the Hong Kong Schools Music and Speech Organisation has converted their competitions to video format since last year. Participants need to continue recording their performances in advance and upload videos to the online form following official "Specifications of Video Recording", "Procedures for Submission" and the competition rules. ILK Learning organizes 3 important notes on video-submission competition to make sure parents understand the new arrangement, with some video recording tips for your kid to stand out from other fellow contestants:
The registration date for The 73rd Hong Kong Schools Speech Festival is from August 23th (10:00 am) to September 27th (5:00 pm), 2021. The deadline for submitting cheques for registration fees is September 29th, 2021.
This year's speech festival will continue to maintain the following special arrangements - only individual/two-person projects, including:
All full-time or half-time students, as well as full-time university and post-secondary students, who are studying in Hong Kong's secondary schools, primary schools, kindergartens, special schools, and full-time university and post-secondary college students aged from 5 to 23 can participate. University and post-secondary college students can sign up to participate in the project N300 (open group verse or prose solo speech).
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