Vietnamese students win prize at Huawei ICT Competition 2022-2023
A team of Vietnamese students won the third prize in the Cloud Track category of the Huawei ICT Competition 2022-2023 Global Final held in China’s Shenzhen city, the Ministry of Information and Communications announced on May 29.
Vietnamese students win the third prize in the Cloud Track category of the Huawei ICT Competition 2022-2023 Global Final. (Photo courtesy of Huawei ICT Competition 2022-2023)
Hanoi (VNA) – A team of Vietnamese students won the third prize in the CloudTrack category of the Huawei ICT Competition 2022-2023 Global Final held inChina’s Shenzhen city, the Ministry of Information and Communications announcedon May 29.
The team members included Nguyen Quoc Hung from the Posts andTelecommunications Institute of Technology (PTIT), Tran Duc Lam and Vu QuangHai from FPT University, under the guidance of Dr. Tran Tien Cong of the PTIT.
The final round saw the competition of 148 teams from 36 countriesand territories. Meanwhile, the qualifying round of this year’s competition drewthe participation of more than 120,000 students from over 2,000 universities in74 countries and territories around the world.
As a key project of the Seeds for the Future 2.0 initiative of Huawei – China’sleading global provider of information and communications technology (ICT)infrastructure and smart devices, the Huawei ICT Competition aims to provide aplatform for global college students to compete and communicate with each otherin the ICT field.
As of the end of 2022, Huawei has cooperated with 2,200universities to build Huawei ICT Academies, helping to train more than 200,000students each year. Since its initial launch in 2015, more than 580,000students from 85 countries and regions around the world have participated inthe competition./.
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More than an art showcase, the second “Technology with heart” contest seeks to inspire innovation and spotlight the humanistic values that technology can bring into daily life, expected to contribute to a sustainable digital future.
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Vietnamese students win the third prize in the Cloud Track category of the Huawei ICT Competition 2022-2023 Global Final. (Photo courtesy of Huawei ICT Competition 2022-2023) 
