VN students win at International Olympiads in Informatics in U.S.
Eleventh-grade student Nguyen Le Huy won a gold medal at the Microsoft-sponsored 15th International Olympiad in Informatics (IOI 2003) held at the University of Wisconsin-Parkside in Kenosha, Wisconsin, from August 16-23.
Huy's other three contenders, all students of mathematics and informatics at the College of Natural Sciences of the Hanoi National University, won prizes - a silver by Cao Thanh Tung, and bronze by Phan Tran Duc and Dinh Ngoc Thang.
With these prizes, the Vietnamese team ranked ninth among 75 countries which sent a total of 265 competitors to the IOI 2003.
Vietnamese students have attended IOI since it started in 1989 and have often reached the top ten. Experts revered Vietnam has the strongest informatics team in Southeast Asia. (VNA)
