On May 22, according to information from the Ministry of Education and Training, two out of seven projects of the Vietnamese team won prizes at Regeneron ISEF 2023.
The winning project on pharmacological effects on the central nervous system of Litsea cubeba fruit and leaf essential oils, based on a pharmacological network in the Computational Biology and Bioinformatics (CBIO) category, was developed by Nguyen Thi Mai Anh and Nguyen Binh Giang, from the High School for Gifted Students of the University of Science, under the Vietnam National University, Hanoi (VNU).
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Project of Vietnamese students won the official prize at Regeneron ISEF 2023 |
Another project, a quadruped robot model used to assist search and rescue operations in landslide-affected areas, by Le Minh Duc and Le Nguyen Trung Kien from Le Hong Phong High School for Gifted Students in Ho Chi Minh City, earned a Special Award presented by the US Agency for International Development.
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The project won the third-place prize awarded by the US Agency for International Development |
Initiated in 1952, ISEF is the world's largest global science competition for high school students. Every year, about 1,800 high school students from 80 countries and territories around the world, introduce their research results in 22 fields of the competition.
This year's competition was held in Dallas, the US, from May 14 - 19, attracting the participation of 1,600 students from 61 countries and territories, with 1,302 projects. Vietnam had seven projects competing in the competition.
Vietnam has seven projects participating and is among 33 countries and territories, with winning projects in the competition.
The seven Vietnamese team projects participating in Regeneron ISEF 2023, were selected from 143 projects for the National Science and Technology Competition for high school students, during the 2022-2023 school year. Previously, there were tens of thousands of projects carried out in schools to select more than 5,000 projects to participate in the provincial/city science and technology contest.
Attending from 2012 until now, the achievements of Vietnamese students in the ISEF International Science and Technology Competition have always been stable. Every year, Vietnam has won a prize at the contest.
