280 candidates participate in the 30th Nghe An Province Youth Informatics Contest, 2024

On the morning of May 25, Nghe An Provincial Youth Union held the opening ceremony of the 30th Nghe An Provincial Youth Informatics Contest, 2024.

Attending the program were comrade Nguyen Thi Thom - Member of the Provincial Party Executive Committee, Deputy Head of the Provincial Party Committee's Mass Mobilization Commission, representatives of relevant departments, agencies, units, teachers and 280 contestants and groups of contestants participating in the contest.

Youth Informatics Competitionis an annual activity of the Provincial Youth Union Standing Committee, aiming to contribute to creating a healthy, useful playground and favorable conditions for students to have the opportunity to exchange, discuss and learn experiences in studying. At the same time, promoting the intelligence and creativity of young people in applying information technology, contributing to orienting young people in exploiting and applying Information Technology effectively.

The contest aims to evaluate the results of the movement of studying and applying Information Technology among young people, thereby discovering and nurturing young talents, encouraging and motivating them to actively study and apply Information Technology in their studies and life, society, contributing to the development of young human resources to meet the requirements of industrialization and modernization of the country.

This year's Youth Informatics Competition in Nghe An province is also an occasion to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the Youth Informatics movement. Over the past 30 years, the Youth Informatics Competition has contributed to promoting the widespread movement of learning information technology among young people in the province. The scale, quantity, level and quality of the contestants have been gradually improved. The content and form have changed over the years to suit the development of information technology and the learning and research needs of students.

Speaking at the contest, comrade Tran Linh - Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Youth Union, Head of the Organizing Committee of the contest informed more about the impressive numbers and new points in this year's contest.
Accordingly, 280Candidatefrom districts, cities and towns will participate in 4 programming competition boards and 33 creative products - numbers never seen in previous years' competitions. Notably, this is the first time that the D1 competition board - Creative product competition board for primary school students, is organized. Before that, the organizing committee created conditions for candidates in individual boards to get acquainted with the system and participate in a trial test 15 days in advance.

This morning, after the opening ceremony, the contestants entered the online competition of groups A, B, C1, C2 with 14 testing locations in districts, towns and 1 location at Vinh University. The contestants in the creative product competition will participate in the product presentation competition on the morning of May 28.