The Minister of Education, Culture, Sports and Youth, Mr Prodromos Prodromou, attended the award ceremony of the poster design competition on the theme: "Children's Museum of Cyprus. Klailia Surmeli-Skoteinou stressed the main objectives of the Children's Museum which is to provide children with opportunities for creativity, innovation and expression of their own views on a range of issues that reflect the desires, problems and goals of their daily lives.
The Director of the Pedagogical Institute (PI), Dr Athena Michaelidou, in her intervention, referred to PI's cooperation with the Children's Museum (CM) and stressed that the objectives of the CM are in line with the objectives of the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports and Youth, and in particular the PM, to promote creativity, critical thinking and other skills, which generously offer children and their teachers opportunities for authentic learning.
The Minister of Education, Culture, Sports and Youth, Mr Prodromos Prodromou, in his address, expressed his support for the work of the Children's Museum, an organisation that should consider the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports and Youth as its main partner. The Minister referred to the importance of activities that offer creative opportunities to children and teachers and congratulated everyone, students, pupils and teachers, as well as the Pedagogical Institute for coordinating this project and wished the Children's Museum all the best.
At the event, all the entries in the poster design competition were presented and prizes were awarded to the students who won the first places by the Honourable Minister of Education, Culture, Sports and Youth and the Chief Financial Officer of the Hellenic Bank Mr.
The winners of the competition were: Mariam Papasavva, Grade 6, Trullo Primary School
2nd Prize: Neophytos Konstantinou, Class C, Strovolos Agia Marina Primary School (KA)
3rd Prize: Kyriaki Karatzia, Class VI, Aradippou Primary School D - Agios Fanouriou
Level 2 (Students of Public and Private High Schools, Lyceums and Technical Schools)
1st Prize: Ioanna Lisgari, Class B΄61, Larnaca Pancyprian Lyceum
2nd Prize: Maria Ignatidou, Class A΄, Forum Private School
3rd Prize: Anna Michaelidou and Xenia Nicolaou, Class B61, Larnaca Pancyprian Lyceum
The event concluded with a Musical Program in which the students Dimitris Moraitis (Guitar) and Marios Vafeas (Double Bass) participated under the coordination of Mr. Ioannis Vafeas (Drums).
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