新北幼幼歡樂多語影音秀: A Platform for Registration, Video Showcase, and Online Voting

An annual multilingual stage

Every school year, the Education Department, New Taipei City Government hosts 新北幼幼歡樂多語影音秀, inviting children from public and private preschools across the city to write songs in Hoklo, Hakka, an Indigenous language, or English, and submit them on video. It’s more than a competition — it’s an important initiative for local-language education, bringing these languages to life in everyday settings.

But running a city-wide annual event well takes more than official memos and paper registration forms. It needed a digital platform where teachers could register online, where parents and the public could see the children’s work, where judges had a system to score entries, and where the popularity award could be voted on fairly.

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One platform, four languages’ worth of creative energy

Image source: 新北幼幼歡樂多語影音秀 registration site

The event runs in four categories — Hoklo, Hakka, Indigenous languages, and English — each with three awards: Best Video, Creativity, and Popularity. Each class records and submits its own singing-and-dancing video to YouTube, then submits the video link through the platform.

The event platform Estab-Zenith built ties the entire process together:

The online registration system replaces paper forms — each preschool fills in team information, the song being performed, and the list of participating children directly online, and the system automatically organizes the data for organizers to review.

The entry showcase page lets parents and judges filter by language category, search for a specific school or team name, sort by view count, or share entries directly with friends and family — helping more people see how much effort these children put in. Embedding videos via YouTube instead of hosting them directly on the site was a key decision made during system planning — it cuts bandwidth costs and makes the site load faster.

The online voting and anti-duplicate mechanism is the core of the popularity award. To keep voting fair, the system includes an anti-vote-rigging mechanism that limits each voter to one vote per entry, so the entry that genuinely wins the most audience love comes out on top.

The statistics feature lets organizers track each entry’s views and votes at any time, helping streamline preparation ahead of judging meetings.

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Development details: keeping a playful design running reliably

Image source: 新北幼幼歡樂多語影音秀 registration site

Getting the visual tone right

A platform for a preschool event can’t feel too serious. Estab-Zenith designed key visual illustrations and an overall color scheme that match preschoolers’ lively tone, so the site conveys the vitality of the children’s singing and creativity while staying fully functional.

Data structure design for four categories

Each of the four language categories has its own set of participating teams, judging criteria, and awards. The data structure needed to flexibly support multi-category display while keeping back-office management intuitive. The system runs on a Vue.js + Nuxt.js + Vuetify front end with a Node.js API and MariaDB, keeping category filtering and data queries fast and responsive.

An annual update rhythm

The event runs once each school year, and the theme visuals, registration schedule, and contest rules can all change year to year. Estab-Zenith provides annual operations services, updating the platform’s content and features to the client’s needs each year — so the system grows along with the event instead of starting from scratch every time.

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Core technology

• Front-end framework: Vue.js + Nuxt.js + Vuetify
• Back end: Node.js
• Database: MariaDB
• Responsive design: RWD, supporting phones, tablets, and desktops
• Design scope: key visual design, site color scheme, web component illustrations, UI/UX planning

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The core lesson from this project

Estab-Zenith has taken part in digitizing this event for six years running. Every year, a new group of children stands in front of the camera to sing in their own language. And every year, the platform evolves right along with them.

Thanks to this platform, the teachers and parents who care about this competition get to see, for the first time, their children singing their hearts out on video. Every click when the event opens each year, every popularity vote cast, helps more people see what these children have created.

This is work worth doing, year after year.