Duy Tan University, Danang City, held the opening ceremony for the 22nd Vietnam Informatics Olympic Contest for Students (OLP’13) and the ACM Int’l Collegiate Programming Contest (ACM/ICPC) on November 27.

Nearly 800 Vietnamese students and 45 from Japan, the Republic of Korea, Thailand, Taiwan (China), China, Hong Kong (China) and Indonesia, entered this year’s competition.
This is the second time Danang has hosted the qualifying round in Asia for the ACM/ICPC, along with Phuket in Thailand and Jakarta in Indonesia.
The organising board will choose the most outstanding contestants from the OLP’13 and the qualifying round of ACM/ICPC to compete at the final round of ACM/ICPC 2014 in Ekaterinburg, Russia.
The awards ceremony will take place on November 29.
As part of the competition the Ministry of Education and Training, Vietnam Huawei Technology Company and Duy Tan University launched a mobile application renovation contest.
Contestants will make a tour of cultural and historic relics in Danang City and Hoi An township in Quang Nam province.
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