The Arts Unit of NSW Education played an important role in providing children and teenagers across NSW to perform at Olympic events. The Sydney 2000 Olympic Band continues as a secondary public school ensemble in New South Wales. Now named the NSW Public Schools Millennium Marching Band, the band performs at large-scale and televised events in both Australia and overseas. This smaller ensemble (consisting of around 100 members) travelled to Beijing for the 2008 Summer Olympics held in China that year, and performed in the United States in 2015 in San Francisco, Seattle and Los Angeles. The Sing 2001 choir was a NSW schools state choir that continued to perform after the Olympics, and at major events in 2001 celebrating the Centenary of Federation.