The Youth Innovation for Ho Chi Minh City Youths is a competition by the Union of Ho Chi Minh City in collaboration with the Ministry of Science and Techonology, Ministry of Education, Vietnam Union of Science and Technology Associations, and Ho Chi Minh City Television. Over 14 years, the contest has become a creative and meaningful playground, contributing to promoting the movement of learning, scientific research, and inspiring creativity in our city’s youths.

The contest will take place from January to June annually. Contestants in Ho Chi Minh City within the age of 06 to 18 are eligible to enter. Contestants may enter as an individual or as a team (maximum 5 person per team), entrants will be divided into 3 groups: Group A (Elemantary Students), Group B (Middle School Students), Group C (Highschool Students).

Entrant projects, be it a model, product, technical or engineering solution,… all projects must fall under the following categories: Educational tools, everyday appliances, industrial tools, children toys; IoT applications for traffic, agriculture, environment; Protection against environmental damages and climate change, protection for water sources; Solutions to traffic congestions, flooding; and various applications, models, solutions for other purposes.

Contest structure:

  • Phrase 1: Preliminery rounds at district level, teams and individuals are chosen to participate in cily level contest.
  • Phrase 2: (May/2018) Youth Innovation of Ho Chi Minh City officially open
  • Phrase 3: All distinguished projects at city level contest will be chosen to compete in the 14th National Youth Innovation 2017-2018 in Hanoi

The prize pool will be 59.000.000 VND total, structure as follow:

  • 01 Distinguished prize: 10,000,000 VND
  • 03 First place prize: 5,000,000 VND
  • 03 Second place prize: 3,000,000 VND
  • 03 Third place prize: 2,000,000 VND
  • Consolation prizes: 1,000,000 VND

Distinguished and First place winners will receive a Certificate from the People’s Commitee of Ho Chi Minh City. Second place, Third place, Participation, Creative viceo clip, and STEM Simulation prize winners will receive a Certificate from the Union of Ho Chi Minh City. All contestants will receive a Proof of Participation from the Organizing Commitee. Furthermore, the Organizing Commitee will award the Collective prize of 2,000,000 VND to 3 excellent organizing units and having participated in the contest.

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