20190813 press release-I am a school lunch designer for nutrition and creativity

If students were allowed to plan their own school lunches, what dream dishes would appear? What kind of creative ideas could come out of a school meal designed by children?

School lunch is the most important source of nutrition and calories for students during school. In order to encourage students to express their ideas more, the Great Enjoy Food and Education Association held a graphic activity entitled "I am a school lunch designer". Primary and secondary school students were invited to pick up a pen, draw or write down their ideal school lunch. The collection date was from now until September 27. This collection activity is the first time to cooperate with the family convenience store. Selected works will be published on the website and publications of the Great Enjoy Food and Education Association and receive a family gift card worth 1,000 yuan. There is also the opportunity to become a student judge of the 2nd Taiwan School Lunch Competition and participate in the 2019 Best Taiwan School Lunch Competition.

Huang Jialin, secretary-general of the Great Enjoy Food and Education Association, said that after visiting school lunches in Taiwan, Japan and South Korea, the students 'favorite menu was curry and fried chicken. But must the menu they devise be fried chicken, rare milk, pizza and pasta? Or maybe there are ideas we didn't expect?

School lunch is the most important part of the practice of food education, so that children eat full, eat healthy, but also hope to eat educational and cultural heritage significance. Students, who are the main target of school meals, are invited to express their ideas and participate in the lunch competition with experts and scholars. On the one hand, they can let their opinions be seen, but also hope that they spend more time to understand the source of their diet.

Last year's inaugural Taiwan School Lunch Competition was judged by two students, a fifth-grade boy and a sixth-grade girl. The small judges said that they usually don't think there is anything special about cooking. This time they saw professional kitchen equipment, chefs and nutritionists from various schools cooking together, so they realized that cooking is really not easy. They look forward to having such meaningful activities every year in the future, so that more people can know that Taiwan's nutritious lunch can also be very delicious.

"I am a School Lunch Designer" was submitted to elementary and junior high school students. The submissions were divided into two categories: drawings and essays. The theme was to describe the ideal school lunch and design concept in mind. For pictures, please adopt 8-carat size (about 26×38cm) plane creation, and the media is not limited; for compositions, please write in horizontal style in Grade 12 new fine Ming style. For handwritten works, please use regular characters to write on manuscript paper. The number of words in junior high school group shall be less than 500 words, and that in junior high school group shall be less than 300 words.

For detailed explanation of the essay collection method, please refer to the official event information of the Great Enjoy Food and Education Association: https://www.foodiedu.org/project/324

[Press Contact]

Zeng Ni (Project Manager of Daxiang Food and Education Association) 02-66365870 /tsengnii@gmail.com

Huang Jialin (Secretary-General of Daxiang Food and Education Association) 0978-207831 /chialinricci@gmail.com