Hanoi students bag gold medals at World Invention Creativity Olympic 2023 (Photo: VNA) Hanoi (VNA) – All the eight secondary Vietnamese students from Hanoi’sGiang Vo High School, taking part in the World Inventory Creativity Olympic (WICO), have bagged gold medals.
In the first group, Le Tam Trang, Dang Duc Luong, and NguyenMinh Tuan were awarded the Grand Prix Award, the highest prize of the competition, fortheir “Research on a model of heavy metal-contaminated water treatment usingfilter materials combined with microorganisms in root system”.
The winners in the second group were Nguyen Le Hoang, TranGia Khiem, and Vu Hong Phuc who were awarded for their project on "Study onextracting biologically active substances from avocado leaves to make dietarysupplements for patients with gastric ulcer caused by Helicobacter pylori".
Meanwhile, Le Tuan Minh and Nguyen Bao Vi in the third group were awarded a special prize byThailand’s Chulalongkom University for their project on “Research on making preparations to treat householdplastic waste”. The project isolatedmicrobial strains from intestines of wax worms that eat plastic to create apreparation for microplastic treatment.
WICO is an annual competition held by the Korea University InventionAssociation (KUIA) and sponsored by the Republic of Korea's National Assembly. This year, the 12th WICO was held in the RoK from July 27-29 with the participation of contestants from 27 countries.
At the contest, secondary andhigh school students worldwide were offered the chance to present theirinnovations. It also encouraged creative ideas, provided new insights,accelerated creativity, improved presentation skills, and established a globalnetwork./.
