2018/03/24
The Ministry of National Defense issued reference data of 2018 National Senior High School Creative Patriotic Songs Competition. (March 24th, 2018)
The Ministry of National Defense stated (24th) that in order to promote civil national defense education, they cooperated with the Ministry of Education to hold “National Senior High School Creative Patriotic Songs Competition” on the eve of the Youth Day with the theme of “Sing the music of victory!” for the first time, and the event will be started at 1:50 PM at Po-ai camp, the event will be hosted by Minister Yen Te-Fa and the Political Deputy Minister of the Ministry of Education Tsai Ching-Hua will attend. The event aim to illustrate the vigor and vitality of students and encourage the enthusiasm and support of national defense.
The Ministry of National Defense stated that there are 10 schools participated in the competition, including Yu Da High School of Commerce and Home Economics, Song Shan High School of Commerce and Home Economics (Taipei City), Juang Jing Vocational High School, Nan Chiang Industrial & Commercial Senior High School (New Taipei City), Hsinchu Kuang-Fu High School, Youth Senior High School, Taichung Home Economics and Commercial High School (Taichung City), National Tseng-Wen Senior Home Economic & Commercial Vocational High School, National Xinying Industrial Vocational High School (Tainan City) and Chung Cheng Armed Forces Preparatory School.
The competition rule is to sing by group and the theme is civil national defense, creative team call can be added with band and honor guard or props. The designated song of the competition is “We Stand on the Pacific Ocean”, and an optional song can be selected from ten songs including “Defend the Steel Army, Partners, Fly Upward, Go to the Battlefield, Warrior March, High Aspiration, Steel Heart, From Strength to Strength, Yushan Pride, Military Dedication”. We and the Ministry of Education invited 5 experts with expertise in areas of music, performing arts, modeling and creative arts to review.
The awards including $100,000 NT Dollars for the champion, $80,000 NT Dollars for the runner-up, $60,000 NT Dollars for the third place winner; and 7 excellence awards with $30,000 NT Dollars (all of the aforementioned awards has 1 trophy as well).
The Ministry of National Defense further stated that it opened the armed forces museum for visit for the first time, and exhibit 1 AH-64E Apache attack helicopter and 1 AH-1W Cobra helicopter at the welcome plaza. In addition, 39 interactive booths (including VR dragon parachute, T-91 rifle shooting simulation, and small paradise road, etc.) are set at the welcome avenue including civil national defense and manpower recruitment and carnival (including military supplies and model manufacturing, customized military gifts and mobile welfare vehicles, etc.), to enhance the opportunity for civil members to experience national defense affairs and practice civil national defense education.
The exemplary band of the Ministry of National Defense and honor guard of three arm forces is specially arranged to perform to open for the event and 6 helicopters of the ROC Army Aviation and Special Forces Command also run overhead (3 AH-64E and 3 UH-60M helicopters), and the Military Police Special Services Company perform combat skill exercise, their performance should be wonderful.
The Ministry of National Defense emphasized that patriotic songs can encourage morale of people and show patriotism. They expect to advocate the idea of “support national defense and love the nation” to citizen through youthful, vital and lively competition event and encourage citizens to support for the administration of the national defense and inspire the consensus of national defense.