Winners in youth's creative contest honoured

Authors of 105 winning projects at the 10th national contest for children’s initiatives were honoured at a ceremony in Hanoi on October 12.

Winners in youth’s creative contest honouredPresident of the Vietnam Fatherland Front Nguyen Thien Nhan and the winners. (Credit: radiovietnam.vn)

The event saw the presence of Politburo member and President of the Vietnam Fatherland Front Nguyen Thien Nhan.

Among 600 models and products sent to the contest, the organising board selected 105 outstanding initiatives for awards, including five first, 10 second, 30 third, and 60 consolation prizes.

Speaking at the ceremony, Nhan praised efforts of the organisers, including the Vietnam Union of Science and Technology Associations (VUSTA), the Ho Chi Minh Communist Youth Union, the Ministry of Education and Training, the Ministry of Science and Technology, schools, and parents in creating conditions promoting children’s creativity during the past decade.

He asked the VUSTA and the organising board to invite the country’s largest groups and corporations to attend the contest’s 11th award ceremony, expressing his hope that all provinces and cities across the country would attend the contest in 2015.

Launched in 2004, the contest attracted the participation of 40% of provinces and cities with 84% of them having participated in the 10th contest in 2014.

During the past ten years, winning submissions have been sent to international creative contests for the youth in Thailand, Malaysia, India and Indonesia and brought prizes. This year, three of ten submitted projects were awarded by the World Intellectual Property Organisation.

(Source: VNA - Translated by NDO)