Mickey Sunday, December 5, 2004  
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Mickey Mouse made a special appearance during the prize presentation of Disney's Imagination Day 2004 Award Presentation today.<br>RTHK Head of Radio 5 Eric Ng (far left), Education and Manpower Bureau Curriculum Development Officer Lee Lok Wah (second from left) and Hong Kong Disneyland Managing Director, Operations, Bill Ernest (far right) with the grand prize winners.
RTHK Head of Radio 5 Eric Ng (back row, far left), Education and Manpower Bureau Curriculum Development Officer Lee Lok Wah (back row, second from left) and Hong Kong Disneyland Managing Director, Operations, Bill Ernest (back row, far right) with the grand prize winners and the outstanding prize winners.
Lower Primary Group Grand Prize Winner:
Upper Primary Group Grand Prize Winner:

Hong Kong Disneyland Awards Young Creative Talent
at Disney's Imagination Day™ 2004 Award Presentation

HONG KONG (December 5, 2004) - Hong Kong Disneyland, together with DisneyHand, paid tribute to the city's youngest artists today in an award presentation ceremony for Disney's Imagination Day™, an annual arts competition developed to inspire children to express their creativity.

Supported by the Cultural & Education Unit of Radio Television Hong Kong (RTHK) and the Education and Manpower Bureau of Hong Kong SAR, the theme for Disney's Imagination Day™ 2004 was the "Story of your Imagination".

Primary school students aged between six and 12 years were invited to create a story based on this theme and then bring it to life through a comic-strip drawing.

Hong Kong Disneyland Managing Director, Operations, Bill Ernest said, "This is the third year that we have held Disney's Imagination Day™ in Hong Kong and it is encouraging to see an increasing number of young students participating. This year we received over 300 imaginative entries from students and we were most impressed with the display of creative talent."

Disney's Imagination Day™ was originally launched in 2001 to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the birth of Walt Disney - the master storyteller himself. The competition aims to enhance originality and highlights the importance of nurturing and developing the power of imagination at a young age.

During the award presentation ceremony, the prizewinners were invited on stage to share their creativity with the audience, in particular how the idea was created and then imaginatively expressed on paper.

Disney's Imagination Day™ entries were judged on their creativity, use of language, storytelling and group work.

The winning entry for Disney's Imagination Day™ in the lower school category was from La Salle Primary School, which submitted a comic cartoon about a cat's adventures to look for a happy land.

Po Leung Kuk Leung Chow Shun Kam Primary School took the honors in the upper school category with a story about the adventures of a family who blast off into space.

Winning Entry
Lower Primary Group (P.1 - P.3)
Grand Prize Winner:
The Adventure of a Blind Kitten
in Search of Happy Land		 La Salle Primary School
Outstanding Award Winners:
Story of Dino CCC Chuen Yuen 1 Primary School (PM)
Two Wishes of an Angel CCC Chuen Yuen 1 Primary School (PM)
City in the Sky SKH St. Michael's Primary School
Doctor Sassy La Salle Primary School
A Mystic Letter Wong See Sum Primary School (AM)

Upper Primary Group (P.4 - P.6)
Grand Prize Winner:
Study Tour in the Space PLK Leung Chow Shun Kam Primary School (PM)
Outstanding Award Winners:
The Treasure Hunt of Little Birds St. Joseph's Primary School
My Dream World Po On Commercial Association Wan Ho Kan Primary School
The Story of a Carrot Kei Wa Primary School
The Adventure of Egypt Diocesan Preparatory School
Poor Boy, Poor Dad Precious Blood Primary School (Wah Fu Estate)

A highlight of the award presentation ceremony was a special guest appearance by Mickey Mouse, who presented each grand prizewinner and five outstanding winners from each of the categories with commemorative certificates. Winners were also invited to enjoy a delicious buffet with Mickey after the award presentation ceremony.

The grand prize included an official Disney's Imagination Day™ certificate, a Disney Store gift certificate valued at HK$1,000, and a framed winning artwork. All winning artworks will be published in "Comic Book of Imagination" by Hong Kong Disneyland.

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About Hong Kong Disneyland
The Hong Kong Disneyland project was announced in 1999 as a venture between The Walt Disney Company and the Hong Kong SAR Government. With the completion of reclamation for Hong Kong Disneyland Phase I by the Hong Kong SAR Government, theme park and resort construction began in January 2003, with the project now scheduled to open on 12th September, 2005. At opening day, Hong Kong Disneyland will comprise a theme park and two hotels.

The Phase I build-out includes a projected 10 million annual visitor Disneyland-style theme park, 2,100 hotel rooms, and an area for retail, dining and entertainment. The project is estimated to create 18,000 new jobs at opening (both Disney and other employment) growing to 36,000 once the first park reaches build-out. The Hong Kong SAR Government estimated that the first phase of the project will generate a present economic value of HK$148 billion (US$19 billion) in benefits to Hong Kong over a 40-year period.

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