Vietnamese students rank in the top 2 at the Asian Informatics Olympiad.

With 2 gold medals and 4 silver medals, the Vietnamese student delegation tied for second place with Japan at the Asia-Pacific Informatics Olympiad (APIO).

The Ministry of Education and Training announced on the morning of May 20th that the two gold medals were awarded to Nguyen Huu Tuan and Nguyen Bui Duc Dung, both 12th-grade students from the High School for Gifted Students in Natural Sciences, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Vietnam National University, Hanoi.

The six award-winning contestants (wearing red shirts from left to right): Nguyen Bui Duc Dung (Gold Medal), Dang Huy Hau (Silver Medal), Nguyen Huu Tuan (Gold Medal), Thai Van Gia Kien (Silver Medal), Le Pham Duy Khoa (Silver Medal), Nguyen Khanh Phuc (Silver Medal).

The four students who won silver medals are Nguyen Khanh Phuc (10th grade, Luong Van Tuy High School for the Gifted, Ninh Binh), Thai Van Gia Kien (12th grade, Ha Tinh High School for the Gifted), Dang Huy Hau (11th grade, Thang Long High School for the Gifted, Lam Dong), and Le Pham Duy Khoa (11th grade, High School for the Gifted in Natural Sciences ).

With this result, the Vietnamese delegation ranked second, tied with Japan and behind Russia, moving up three places compared to last year.

This performance assessment helps Vietnam maintain its leading position in Southeast Asia, despite this year's exam being "new and challenging". The results also show that Vietnamese students have a talent and thinking ability in computer science that are among the best in the region.

The 20th Asia-Pacific Informatics Olympiad took place from May 9th to 10th in Taiwan (China). Over 1,000 contestants from 37 delegations participated, with 16 gold medalists, 47 silver medalists, and 93 bronze medalists selected.

To compete internationally, 16 Vietnamese contestants went through the selection process of the Ministry of Education and Training, after ranking in the top 40-50 highest scores in the national excellent student competition.

However, according to APIO regulations, each team can only select the 6 highest-scoring contestants to participate in the competition. From there, the Ministry further selected 4 students to join the International Olympiad in Informatics (IOI) team.

According to VnExpress

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