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Witnessing the dramatic competition of smart robot models created by Vietnamese students at the “Innovation Tech Challenge – 2024” Science and Technology Innovation Competition, many people were surprised and excited because now the young generation of Vietnam seems to be able to build robots quite proficiently. The story behind these robot models started from the desire to nurture and develop technology talents of the giant Samsung.

Students with homemade robot models at the Innovation Tech Challenge

From Samsung's efforts to solve the shortage of technology talent

The robot model and the "Innovation Tech Challenge" Science and Technology Innovation Competition started from the idea of a playground to help students fully demonstrate the knowledge and skills acquired from technology training programs under the Samsung Innovation Campus (SIC) project.

In 2019, with the ideal of a young generation of Vietnam with outstanding technological capabilities, Samsung officially launched the SIC project in Vietnam. The project focuses on training in emerging technology fields that are having great influence such as: C&P Programming, AI, Big Data, IoT.

Since its launch in 2019, more than 12,000 students and teachers have been trained and developed high-tech skills from this project. Notably, over the past half decade, the project has continuously recorded creative innovations and increased achievements year by year. In particular, with nearly 6,400 students, the 2023-2024 project has recorded nearly double the number of students participating compared to the 2022-2023 school year.

As the number of students trained from the SIC program increases rapidly, the gap between the quantity and quality of technology talent in Vietnam is increasingly narrowing.

Mr. Choi Joo Ho, General Director of Samsung Vietnam Complex affirmed that "Samsung will strive to contribute a small part in solving the problem of lack of IT talent in Vietnam" .

Come shake hands with NIC

In October 2023, in response to the Government's call to mobilize resources to support Vietnam in realizing the goal of training 50,000 semiconductor engineers by 2030, Samsung officially cooperated with NIC to implement high-techeducation and development projects for the young generation of Vietnam to nurture technology talents, making Vietnam a destination for innovation in the region and the world. And just over half a year later, Samsung and NIC officially opened the SIC Program for the 2023-2024 school year at NIC Hoa Lac campus.

Samsung's cooperation at that time was assessed by Deputy Minister Nguyen Thi Bich Ngoc as appropriate, focused and contributing to nurturing and developing the young generation into future talents in key areas of the 4.0 Industrial Revolution.

Recently, attending the SIC 2023-2024 project closing ceremony, just a few months after participating in the opening ceremony of the SIC program at NIC, directly watching the competition of smart robot models created by students of the SIC program, Deputy Minister Ngoc was once again impressed because the SIC project has devoted its intelligence, time and effort to build an effective training program, contributing significantly to preparing the country's resources in the coming time, especially in the context of the 4.0 revolution.

She affirmed, "From today's results, I have a strong belief that together we are creating a bright and solid future for the common development of Vietnam and our partners."

Students enthusiastically presented their project models in the final round of the SFT 2023 competition.

The goal of training 50,000 semiconductor engineers is within reach.

The story of robot models created by Vietnamese hands and minds is not a new story, because Vietnamese people have been making robots for a long time. However, the robot models created by students in just over a month thanks to the application of the latest technologies such as programming, artificial intelligence, internet of things... just learned in Samsung's SIC course are living proof of the quality and effectiveness of this project, and at the same time a positive signal in training technology talents in Vietnam in the future.

"This is a very good course. It is not only good for students to access very updated and modern knowledge but also good for teachers. In my opinion, courses like this need to continue to be implemented, the longer the better" - Mr. Tran Hung Cuong, Head of the Department of Computer Science - Information Technology, Hanoi University of Industry said.

An IT training class at Samsung Hope School

The effectiveness of the SIC project once again proves Samsung's efforts in corporate social responsibility activities. Currently, Samsung is allocating to Vietnam the highest corporate social responsibility budget among the countries in which the group invests. With the vision of "Together for Tomorrow - Enabling People", Samsung is focusing on implementing many activities to nurture the future generation, typically the Solve for Tomorrow competition to encourage students to apply knowledge of STEM education methods to come up with practical solutions to social and local community issues. The project "Training candidates for the WorldSkills Competition"; the Hope School project helps disadvantaged students have the opportunity to develop comprehensively...

It can be said that the way Samsung implements activities to nurture and develop technology talents in a practical manner, in line with the Government's policy orientation, shows the company's sustainable companionship and solidarity with Vietnam. In the future, when Vietnam has more and more businesses joining hands like this, the goal of training 50,000 semiconductor engineers by 2030 is completely within reach.

"Now, not only stopping at economic contributions, Samsung is making efforts to improve Vietnam's basic competitiveness. Samsung will strive to become "the enterprise that makes the most effort to train technology talents in Vietnam", contribute to training future technology talents and become "an enterprise that always accompanies Vietnam" - said Mr. Choi Joo Ho - General Director of Samsung Vietnam.

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