The Ministry of Education and Training held a ceremony in Hanoi on May 5 to celebrate the Vietnamese students who won two fourth awards at the 2014 Intel International Science and Engineering Fair (Intel ISEF 2014).
Intel ISEF 2014 was held in United States from May 11-16, attracted nearly 1600 students from 76 countries and territories around the world with 1,396 research projects.
The Vietnamese delegation included 16 competitors, bringing to the contest six research projects, two of which have won fourth awards.
The award winners were Tran Thi Dieu Lien and Nguyen Nam Du from the Le Hong Phong High School in Ho Chi Minh City with the project “Electronic Braille Display for the Visually Impaired”, and the three-member group: Dang Yen Lan , Tran Tien Dat and Dang Anh Tu from the Hanoi Amsterdam High School with the entry “Lipid Production by Oleaginous Fungi Grown on Rice Straw for Potential Biodiesel Resource.”
The project “Electronic Braille display for the visually impaired” also won the second award granted by the charity foundation Open Hearts of Ukraine.
Intel International Science and Engineering Fair was founded in 1950 by the Society for Science and the Public and has been sponsored by the Intel Corporation since 1997. This was the sixth time Vietnamese team attended the Intel ISEF contest.
