The competition left judges with the difficult task of choosing between projects ranging from video presentations, models and illustrated books to a site diary of the construction of a school.

Instead of sitting an examination or preparing a project, the candidate will be assessed on physical items of work such as project programmes, site diaries, orders and observations of site performance.

They are planning a weekly radio show in Mandarin along with a Web site diary and a weekly videotaped interview with Yao in both Chinese and English.