Tran Vinh Khanh competes in the Path to the Peak of Mount Olympus, a television knowledge competition for high school students. (Photo: VietnamPlus)
Hanoi (VNA) – This year, for the first time in the past 10 years since Vietnam’s participation in the Asia-Pacific Informatics Olympiad, a student from a normal school won a prize. He is Tran Vinh Khanh, a 12th grader at the Quang Tri Township High School in the central province of Quang Tri.
Since Vietnam attended this contest for the first time in 2013, almost its prize winners came from schools for gifted students, and half of them were from the High School for Gifted Students at the University of Science under the Vietnam National University, Hanoi.
That Khanh secured a prize is truly a great source of pride for himself, his family, as well as his school, said Rector of the Quang Tri Township High School Phan Thien Nga.
She said Khanh has been an excellent student since he was small, and he has obtained a number of academic achievements. He has nurtured his love for informatics since he was a first grader. An advantage for him is that his mother is a teacher of informatics. He used to win the first prize at the Quang Tri provincial youth informatics competition, and the third prize at the national youth informatics competition in 2019, when he was a ninth grader.
Therefore, as soon as Khanh entered the 10th grade, the Quang Tri Township High School realised his special abilities and made a plan to help him nurture and promote his talent. Aside from receiving guidance from the school’s outstanding teachers, he was also sent to the Le Quy Don High School for Gifted Students in the province’s Dong Ha city to get further training.
Tran Vinh Khanh, third from right, and other prize winners of Vietnam at this year’s Asia-Pacific Informatics Olympiad. (Photo: VietnamPlus)
Not disappointing his teachers, at the 11th grade, he was selected for the province’s team competing at the national informatics competition for gifted students and obtained the third prize. Also in that academic year, he earned the third prize in the national youth informatics contest.
At the 12th grade, the Quang Tri student obtained the second prize in the national competition for gifted students. Chosen to get intensive training to prepare for the Asia-Pacific Informatics Olympiad, he made tireless efforts and outperformed many of his peers from nationwide to become a member of the official team of Vietnam at the regional contest, and then brought home the bronze medal.
Nga noted that though Khanh is an excellent student and has received training at the provincial High School for Gifted Students since the 10th grade, he has still returned to learn at the Quang Tri Township High School whenever he has time.
As a member of the Vietnamese team at the Asia-Pacific Informatics Olympiad, Khanh is the only student of Quang Tri province to have been exempted from the high school graduation examination 2023. He is also the first student of the Quang Tri Township High School to be entitled to the exemption.
With good abilities and unceasing efforts, Tranh Vinh Khanh has obtained a number of prizes. (Photo: VietnamPlus)
Though the Quang Tri Township High School is not a school for gifted students, it is still among those with the best training quality in Quang Tri province. In the 2022 - 2023 academic year, it had six students winning the first prize, 22 the second prize, and 33 the third prize at the provincial contest for gifted students.
In particular, its students advanced to the final round of the Path to the Peak of Mount Olympus, a television knowledge competition for high school students, for three times – in 2015, 2018, and 2020./.
