More than 100 contestants participate in 15th Bac Ninh Youth Informatics Contest

30/05/2018 07:26

(BNP) – On May 29th, Standing Committee of Provincial Youth Union in association with Department of Training and Education, Department of Science and Technology and Department of Information and Communication held the 15th Bac Ninh Youth Informatics Contest in 2018.

Provincial leaders awarded certificate to first prize winners.

The contest this year attracted 113 contestants who are young civil servants and students from three groups namely High, Secondary and Primary schools selected from contest at district level.

For the students, the contestants participated in two parts (theory and practice). This year, contestants tested quiz and practiced on the computer, using programming languages including LOGO, SCRATCH and Free Pascal to solve math problems.

The contestants practiced examination on software using and information technology skills to write report, statistics and data aggregation for professional work and administrative reform in State agencies for young civil servants.

Ending the Contest, the Organizing Committee of the Competition awarded 38 prizes to the contestants including 6 first prizes, 8 second prizes, 11 third prizes, 13 encouraging prizes and 2 creative prizes. Among which, the three first prizes of the Contest corresponding to three most outstanding students of the mentioned groups were respectively awarded for Nguyen Duc Kiet from class 5A (Phu Chan Primary School, Tu Son town), Nguyen Duc Thuan from class 9C (Nguyen Cao Secondary School, Que Vo district), and Tran Viet Hung - a student of Grade 11/Informatics, at Bac Ninh High School for Gifted, in Bac Ninh city.

The Organizing Committee also awarded the three first prizes at district level to three most outstanding cadres including Mr. Nguyen Xuan Binh – a cadre of Provincial People’s Court, Mr. Nguyen Dinh Kien – an expert of Office of Bac Ninh City Party Committee and Mrs. Pham Thi Thoi from People’s Committee of Trung Chinh Commune in Luong Tai district.

Bac Ninh Youth Informatics Contest is held annually in order to discover and foster young informatics talents; motivate youths to study and apply information technology in learning and working. The contest also selected the best contestants to participate in 18th National Youth Informatics Contest 2018”.