Announcing the Winners of a Recent Avatar Writing Contest

We always love hearing from teachers about how they’ve creatively used Learning A-Z resources to engage students in their classrooms. We’re amazed by the great work students have done during the writing competition organized by our partner MangoSTEEMS HKG in collaboration with Learning A-Z!

Encouraged and supported by their enthusiastic teachers, more than 1800 students from 37 Hong Kong schools participated in the writing competition. Each of them wrote a creative essay on the topic “A Wonderful Day With My Avatar” and submitted their essay with their own awesome Avatar picture. The effort put into each essay was extremely impressive, and the results were remarkable.

Narrowing the essays down to a small group of winners was challenging for the judges, as all the entries were wonderful. A panel of judges at Learning A-Z headquarters in Tucson reviewed the finalists and awarded the winners.

Law Chi Yin

Law was always curious about snowboarding. Law’s avatar name is Harry. They went together on an adventure starting on top of a snow-covered mountain, sharing the magical snowboard to go down the hill, which was a wonderful experience! Law ended the essay by looking forward to their next adventure.

Chan Chun Man

This is Super Train, Chan Chun Man’s avatar! As Chan’s best friend, they used a rocket to travel together to Season Planet on a wonderful adventure. Season Planet is a magical place where they got to play with all four seasons.

Cheung Hoi Man, Eunice

Cheung Hoi Man has been struggling with riding bikes. Thankfully his avatar came to the rescue! During the day with his avatar, Cheung felt motivated and learned how to balance and to easily ride the bike.

Kwan Hei Man

It was a rainy day when Kwan Hei Man went outside to play with her avatar Sally. After playing in the rain, Kwan shared with us: “The rain stopped and the sun came out. Sally suddenly pointed at something colourful in the sky and asked, ‘What is that?’ I told her, ‘That’s a rainbow.’ Both of us were ecstatic as this was the first time we saw a rainbow. I hope I will have another wonderful day with my avatar soon.”

Ng Yuet Ching, Charley

Charley also enjoyed a rainy day with his avatar, which started by playing with the wet sand. They built a sandcastle together! Charley said, “The raindrops fell on our buckets and made pitter patter sounds. It’s the most beautiful music in the world!”

Cathy Li

Cathy told a great story, which started as follows: "One blazingly hot summer's morning, my dad came home as a snowman. I stared at him in shock, as my jaw fell down." Later, Cathy found out that it was her avatar, Mr Snowman! They went out to find snow and Cathy taught the snowman how to do angles. On the next day, the avatar was nowhere to be found, after such a fun wonderful day.

We also want to mention our merit winners, who submitted some great essays too, so we wanted to also give them prizes and share their great work!

With so many clever, inspiring submissions, it’s obvious that every participant is exceptionally talented in his or her own way, and that every classroom teacher has offered incredible support and encouragement. We’re gratified to have the opportunity to work with so many dedicated educators and gifted students.