On May 23, the Hanoi Department of Education and Training coordinated with IIG Vietnam Education Organization to organize a conference to summarize and award prizes for the Hanoi City International Young Informatics Talent Competition in the 2025-2026 school year, to honor students and schools with outstanding achievements in the movement of learning informatics, digital skills and applying technology according to international standards.
After more than two months of launching, the Hanoi City International Young Informatics Talent Competition for the 2025-2026 school year has attracted more than 51,000 students from 1,108 primary, secondary and high schools to participate.
Through the rounds, the competition recorded 240 entries achieving a perfect score of 1,000/1,000 and 1,754 entries achieving over 900 points in the IC3 Spark, IC3, MOS and GenAI contents.
At the conference, the Organizing Committee awarded a total of 229 individual prizes, including 11 first prizes, 53 second prizes, 87 third prizes and 78 consolation prizes to students with outstanding achievements. In addition, 17 collective prizes were awarded to typical schools to recognize efforts in organization, training and accompanying students.
In particular, from the results of this year's Contest, 03 secondary school students who won the first prize in the International Informatics Skills Competition will be directly admitted to the Vietnamese team to participate in the 2026 International IC3 Skills Championship (IC3 Digital Literacy International Championship 2026). This is a competition initiated and hosted by Vietnam in August, with the participation of teams from many countries around the world.
Speaking at the conference, Assoc. Prof. Dr. Nguyen Van Hien, Director of Hanoi Department of Education and Training emphasized: "The results from the competition are clear evidence of the effectiveness of the modern education orientation that the Capital's Education Sector is persistently implementing: taking learners as the center; taking digital transformation, innovation and digital capacity development as development motivation.
Ms. Doan Nguyen Van Khanh, Executive Director of IIG Vietnam Education Organization - the unit coordinating the implementation of the Contest - affirmed that she will continue to accompany the Hanoi Department of Education and Training in innovating the content and form of organization; gradually integrating new technology trends, especially artificial intelligence, into student competency assessment, towards building a roadmap for comprehensive and sustainable digital skills development for the young generation of the capital.
The 2025-2026 school year is the third consecutive year the competition has been widely deployed to primary, secondary and high school students in the capital. In the context of Hanoi's Education sector promoting digital transformation, developing STEM education, technology education and gradually bringing artificial intelligence (AI) into schools, the competition continues to affirm its role as a prestigious academic playground, contributing to the development of digital capacity and technological thinking for high school students.
The highlight of this year's competition is the first deployment of the Artificial Intelligence (AI) Application competition table for secondary and high school students.
The results of the final round continue to affirm the outstanding quality of Hanoi students when nearly 90% of candidates met international standards in IC3 Spark, IC3 and MOS contents; more than 77% of AI candidates achieved good completion of the AI application test to solve practical problems.
Through the competition, students have access to international digital competency standards right from high school; and at the same time have the opportunity to get acquainted with the international certificate system that is being widely used in learning and recruitment globally. The synchronous implementation of international exam content also contributes to helping Hanoi students get closer to global technology standards.
