6/6 Vietnamese students won medals at the 2025 Asia Pacific Informatics Olympiad

Achievements of the Vietnamese team at the Asia Pacific Informatics Olympiad (APIO) 2025:

Medal	Candidates
Yellow	- Nguyen Bui Duc Dung (grade 11, High School for the Gifted in Natural Sciences , Hanoi)
Silver	- Le Kien Thanh (grade 12, Le Quy Don High School for the Gifted, Binh Dinh) - Dang Huy Hau (grade 10, Thang Long High School, Lam Dong )
Copper	- Ninh Quang Thang (grade 12, Ha Long High School for the Gifted, Quang Ninh) - Nguyen Huy Phong (grade 11, Lao Cai High School for the Gifted, Lao Cai) - Nguyen Xuan Chi Thanh (grade 11, High School for the Gifted in Natural Sciences, Hanoi)

Notably, Nguyen Bui Duc Dung won the Gold Medal with 236/300 points, including two papers with the maximum score of 100 points; especially in paper number 1, Dung was one of three candidates with the maximum score.

Student Dang Huy Hau won the Silver Medal with a unique solution and achieved the maximum score in exercise 3 with the main processing part using only 4 lines of code, surprising everyone.

From left to right: Mr. Do Phan Thuan (Deputy Head of the Delegation); students Huy Phong, Quang Thang, Le Kien Thanh, Chi Thanh, Duc Dung, Huy Hau and Mr. Do Duc Dong (Head of the Delegation)

With this result, the Vietnam Informatics Olympiad team ranked 5th after China, Russia, Japan, and Korea and continued to affirm its leading position among countries in the Southeast Asian region.

According to the assessment of the Ministry of Education and Training, this result shows that Vietnamese students are equipped with adequate and updated knowledge. In addition, the results of many years in the International and Regional Informatics Olympiads show that Vietnamese students have the talent and thinking in Computer Science on par with the top students in the region.

The excellent achievements of the Vietnamese national team at APIO 2025 continue to affirm the quality of general education; at the same time, affirm the right direction in the work of discovering, selecting and nurturing excellent students of the Ministry of Education and Training.

The 19th Asia Pacific Olympiad in Informatics was held for 2 days (May 17-18), attracting the participation of 42 delegations from countries and territories, with 868 contestants participating. This year's exam questions were assessed to be creative, following the exam trend of the International Olympiad in Informatics, with each question having many flexible and creative approaches.

Ha Cuong

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