Third prize winner Pham Huy (left) and Deputy Minister of Education and Training Pham Thi Nghia at the welcoming ceremony on May 24
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The Ministry of Education and Training welcomed the delegates home on May 24 in Hanoi. The Vietnamese team bagged five awards, including third prize for a prosthetics arm project by Pham Huy, an 11th grader from a high school in the central province of Quang Tri.
The others were four fourth prizes in system software, chemistry and embedded software. The Intel ISEF is the biggest international pre-college science competition, attracting some 1,800 high school students around the world every year to compete in 22 categories. Vietnamese students have attended the event since 2012.
