Vingroup launches debate contest on green lifestyle

Vingroup launched the "Green Voice" debate contest for high school students nationwide with a total prize value of more than 18.5 billion VND.

The contest is organized by the Green Future Fund under the Thien Tam Fund (Vingroup) to help young people develop "green thinking - green lifestyle", thereby promoting green actions to become a reality in life.

Thousands of students at Le Hong Phong High School for the Gifted (HCMC) participated in the Green Voice sharing session. Photo: Vingroup

"Green Voice" is one of many activities of the Green Future Fund to raise public awareness and promote society to join hands to act for a better future. Through this, candidates have the opportunity to demonstrate their mettle and creative thinking ability, and at the same time, participate in many training sessions on public speaking and debating skills with leading experts, and learn new knowledge from world- famous professors and scholars in the Professional Councils.

"This is a useful playground for the young generation to demonstrate their bravery, creative thinking as well as improve their public speaking and debating skills," the organizing committee representative affirmed.

The organizers introduced the contest and presented souvenirs to students of Vinschool Central Park High School (HCMC). Photo: Vingroup

With the theme of sustainable development, the debate content is based on 10 key action programs of the Green Future Fund, including: Green mobility, Green energy, Green office, Green consumption, Green environment, Green urban garden, Green tourism, Green education , Green healthcare and Green sports.

The competition has four rounds: Registration, Preliminary, Head-to-head and Ranking. Contestants can register as individuals or teams (maximum of two people) and are divided into two groups depending on the competition language: Vietnamese or English.

In the Registration round, contestants have more than a month (November 2 - December 9) to submit their ideas to the organizing committee. The Preliminary round is conducted online. Students submit a video clip of up to 7 minutes of speech about their previously registered ideas. From the Confrontation round, they will compete directly to find individuals and teams to enter the Competition round. This round is scheduled to be held at VinUni University on March 23, 2024.

Young people "check in" at the Green Voice contest introduction event. Photo: Vingroup

The prize structure includes: one first prize, one second prize, two third prizes and other prizes for each competition group. The individual or team that wins the highest prize will win a prize worth 3.4 billion VND, including a cash prize of up to 100 million VND, a full scholarship for a four-year bachelor's program at VinUni University, a VinFast EVO200 electric motorbike, a vacation at Vinpearl Nha Trang and many other valuable prizes...

In addition, "Green Voice" has subsidiary prizes for "School with the highest response" and "School with contestant winning first prize". Each prize is worth 100 million VND, awarded in kind with equivalent value.

Nhat Le

Candidates can see the detailed rules of the contest and continue to register to participate via the official portal: https://talkgreenfuture.net, open until 23:59 on December 9.

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