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"Overall standard of the entries are very high and there are some very outstanding projects.
"Among the 43 projects which were screened into the semi-final contest, the youngest contestants were only studying in Secondary 2 and Secondary 3."
The Chief Executive of CDI, Dr Leung Yat-ming; and the Head of Department of Computing, HKPU, Professor Daniel Yeung, will officiate at the prize-presentation ceremony at 3.30 pm.
A live demonstration of the three Grand Prizes winning projects will be held at the ceremony.
After the contest, suitable programs will be fine-tuned and put on the same user platform. The tailored projects will be put on CD-ROM (Fun With Learning Series 2) which will then be used as share-ware in schools in Hong Kong.
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Kindergarten Subsidy Scheme invites applications
The Education Department is inviting non-profit-making kindergartens to apply for Government subsidy under the Kindergarten Subsidy Scheme for the 1997/98 school year.
The rate of subsidy under the scheme is $880 per pupil per annum. Enrolment figures for the months of September 1997 and March 1998 will be used in calculating the amount of subsidy.
The subsidy to kindergartens will be made by two payments, in November 1997 and April 1998.
Small kindergartens with fewer than 80 pupils will be given a subsidy equivalent to that of a kindergarten with 80 pupils.
A Senior Education Officer, Ms Leung Hoi-yee, said setting the threshold at 80 pupils is to assist small kindergartens in employing at least one qualified kindergarten teacher, with the rest of the teacher salaries being borne by income from school fees.
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