College Celebrates Countdown to the London Olympics

As thousands of people across the UK went online to try and get themselves tickets for the London 2012 Olympics, students at Canterbury College held a special 500 days countdown celebration.

Students participated in a range of events and activities across the day, including table tennis, trampoline skills, the chance to enter a prize draw for tickets to the Games, a performance by Dance students and “Feet on the Street”.

“Feet on the Street” gave students the opportunity to draw around their foot on a giant piece of paper which ran the length of the Street, and write in the space where they would like to be in 2012.

Comments included: “I’m really excited about watching the events at the Olympics, especially the boxing and athletics”; “I’d love to be working at the Olympics and getting involved in volunteering”; “I want to be watching the Games with family”

In 2009, Canterbury College student Reiss Evans from Dover, saw off competition from more than 150 young people across the UK to win first place in the National competition to design the education logo for the London 2012 Olympics.