Throughout 11 years managing the Biology gifted student team, Dr. Do Thi Thanh Huyen has helped her students secure 11 medals at international Olympiads and 112 national awards. She was recently honored with the 2026 Vietnam Women's Award.

In January, while in 10th grade, Thao served as deputy leader of Team FTC 24751 Vietnam at the FIRST Tech Challenge, the premier global robotics tournament for high school students. 

As one of the local shrimp farming pioneers 25 years ago, Dang Van Bay (Bay An) transitioned to a closed-loop high-tech farming model in 2017. 

After four years in graphic design, a young woman in Vietnam's capital has traded her office job for a blowtorch, shaping delicate glass flowers in flames reaching 1,600°C and selling her handmade creations for up to $40 each.

At 100, Vuong Nghien of Da Nang continues to cycle, exercise and prepare his own meals every day. He credits regular physical activity, moderate eating and a cheerful outlook for his remarkable health and independence.

Over 80 days, Pham Quang Minh drove his automobile from HCMC to Paris, traversing 25,000 kilometers across more than 20 countries while navigating challenging road conditions.

Driven by a personal family tragedy, Vietnamese fertility specialist Nguyen Thi Nha has spent more than two decades helping couples struggling to conceive. For her, every healthy baby born is a reason to keep going.

Skilled in wood carving, building traditional Guol houses and mastering traditional musical instruments, Co Tu village elder A Lang Doi in Da Nang has dedicated decades to sharing Co Tu’s heritage with tourists.

Having learned to make bamboo baskets at the age of 13-14, 56-year-old Huynh Thi Tam has spent years searching for someone to carry on the traditional craft as she watches it fade away and younger generations turn their backs on it.

Behind the name Bach Tuyet, meaning “Snow White,” given to a young woman from Ninh Binh with a distinctive appearance, lies a moving story of family love and her journey toward accepting her own beauty.

After three years of exhausting factory work in Japan, Hoang Viet Anh returned to Vietnam determined to give education another chance. 

Once a cherished part of Mid-Autumn Festival celebrations in northern Vietnam, traditional clay figurines are becoming increasingly rare. Fearing the craft could disappear, Phung Dinh Dat has returned home to learn it from his grandfather.

Living with Tourette syndrome, Dinh Viet Tuong has pursued music, acting and digital content creation, building a TikTok following of one million and earning a national award for inspiring other young people.

At just 19, Nguyen Nguyen Phong became one of the youngest lecturers at Hanoi Polytechnic University. Fifteen years later, he joined a secret research team racing to understand and neutralize US magnetic mines during the Vietnam War.

After leaving an $850-a-month accounting job, Vi Thi Thu Ha turned to nature-friendly farming in northern Vietnam. Her cooperative now supplies more than 110 Hanoi school kitchens and creates jobs for ethnic minority women.

An ethnic Thai farmer in Vietnam's Thanh Hoa Province sold his family's traditional stilt house for around $27,000 and invested more than $19,000 in breeding bamboo rats and civets, hoping to build a new livelihood in a remote border community.

In a once-isolated village in Son La province, a Muong entrepreneur and the local Thai community are bringing back an heirloom rice variety and turning cultural traditions into sustainable livelihoods.

A young farmer in central Vietnam has transformed low-lying, unproductive fields into an 8-hectare lotus-growing and processing operation generating more than $38,000 in annual revenue and creating dozens of local jobs.

Dressed as an elderly village woman, Tran Thi Huyen has won millions of social media views while promoting specialties from central Vietnam, helping her once-struggling business generate about VND150 million ($5,700) in monthly revenue.