The Vietnamese winners of the recently-held 2015 Asia-Pacific Informatics Olympiad were honoured with certificates of merit by the Minister of Education and Training in Hanoi on May 26.

Gold medalists Nguyen Tien Trung Kien, Nguyen Viet Dung and Phan Duc Nhat Minh from the University of Natural Sciences’ gifted high school received 10 million VND (470 USD) each. They all scored the highest mark of 300 out of 300.

Their school mates Do Ngoc Khanh and Pham Van Hanh, who won silver medals, were granted 7 million VND (334 USD) each.

Bronze medalist Vu Phuc Hoang from the Hanoi Pedagogy College’s gifted high school, obtained a reward worth 3 million VND (142 USD).

The online five-hour competition was hosted by Indonesia, attracting contestants from 27 countries and territories such as China, Japan, the Republic of Korea (RoK), Singapore and Thailand.

Vietnam tied with the RoK to rank third in the final tally, which composed of 18 golds, 28 silvers and 36 bronzes. It was the first time the country had competed for the award.

The winners will represent Vietnam at the upcoming International Informatics Olympiad.

VN students obtain high praise at ACM/ICPC global contest

The Java #  team from the Vietnam National University’s College of Technology has garnered praise at the ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC) which was held in Morocco on May 25.

The team is comprised of three students – Nguyen Duc Nam, Nguyen Phan Quang Minh and Do Xuan Viet – who solved 6 out of 13 exam papers, helping Vietnam rank 20th among 128 participating countries.

This is the highest prize that Vietnam has won, and contributes to lifting Vietnam’s IT training reputation on an internationally respected level.

Ho Dac Phuong, head of the Vietnam delegation, said domestic and foreign IT contests have helped the Java #  team gain significant experience.

Since 2006, Vietnam has always been ranked among the first 100 universities to attend the ACM/ICPC global contest.

This year’s event attracted contestants from 4,000 universities globally. After regional contests, the 128 strongest teams competed at the final round in Morocco on May 25.

The ACM/ICPC was first held in the US in 1977 under the sponsorship of the US Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) and expanded to global IT students in 1989.

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