Announcing 10 projects that won First Prize at the Provincial Science and Technology Competition for the 2020-2021 school year

On the morning of December 22, the Department of Education and Training held a closing and award ceremony.Science and Technology Innovation CompetitionProvincial level for high school students in the 2020-2021 school year.

A performance by students of Le Viet Thuat High School to celebrate the success of the competition. Photo: MH

The Science and Technology Competition aims to encourage high school students to research science and technology and apply knowledge of subjects to solve real-life problems.

This is a very meaningful activity in the current period, when the whole industry is promoting innovation in teaching methods and forms; innovating forms and methods of assessing learning outcomes to contribute to developing learners' capacity and qualities. The contest has become a useful playground to encourage the spirit of enthusiasm for learning,scientific research,Creativity of high school students across the province, opening up new educational directions.

Director of the Department of Education and Training Thai Van Thanh rewards outstanding groups. Photo: MH

Participating in this year's contest, the whole province has 174projectAccording to the organizers' assessment, most of the projects this year demonstrate many new scientific ideas; the authors have research skills, proposing quite complete solutions; many projects are practical, highly feasible, demonstrating passion for scientific research, applying learned knowledge into practice and creating a useful playground for middle and high school students in the whole province.

In addition, many topics approach large, general issues or use advanced techniques in university and hospital laboratories; specialized agencies... This helps train students' scientific research capacity and shows the connection between high schools and universities and specialized agencies.

Leaders of the Department of Education and Training awarded 10 first prize winning projects. Photo: MH

In particular, there are ideas that come from what students see in their daily lives or the hardships of their parents, teachers and friends. Many of these projects stem from issues that have recently received social attention, such as limiting and combating environmental pollution; preventing natural disasters; preventing the Covid-19 epidemic; protecting public health; and preserving and promoting the value of historical and cultural relics of ethnic minorities.

In addition to the successes, the projects also revealed limitations. That is, some authors have quite big ideas but do not have enough time, knowledge and necessary conditions to implement their ideas.

At the same time, there is a lack of evidence for the scientific and objective nature of the topic such as the diary, the scientific nature of the research plan; the time of the survey is not specific; the report layout is not really in accordance with regulations; the determination of the competition field is not appropriate; using existing results for improvement but the ideas for improvement or innovation are not really as expected, lacking persuasiveness.

At the end of the contest, the jury selected 108 projects that won provincial prizes, including 10 first prizes; 25 second prizes; 38 third prizes; 34 fourth prizes. At the same time, the organizing committee decided to award prizes to 8 participating units with excellent results, in which the first prize belonged to the Department of Education and Training of Vinh city, Phan Boi Chau High School for the Gifted.

Deputy Director of the Department of Education and Training Vo Van Mai awarded the second prize to the winning authors. Photo: MH

In addition, the two best projects were selected to participate in the National Science and Technology Competition held in March 2020 in Hue City.

These are the project "Using starch and extracted gelatin to produce organic packaging for spices" by authors Le Huy Thanh and Tran Phuong Linh, students of Dang Thai Mai Secondary School - Vinh City; Project "Research on separating and using natural fibers from snake plant leaves" by authors Nguyen Thi Anh Thu and Nguyen Thi Le Na, students of Hoa Hieu 1 Secondary School - Thai Hoa Town. This is the first time Nghe An has selected 2 projects of secondary school students to participate in the National Science and Technology Competition.

The group of authors won first prize and was selected to participate in the national science and technology competition of Hoa Hieu 1 Secondary School - Thai Hoa town. The project uses snake plants to weave many products with practical meaning such as product packaging, handicrafts, wigs and can replace products made from plastic, nylon, and synthetic fibers. Photo: MH

Speaking at the closing ceremony, Director of the Department of Education and Training Thai Van Thanh congratulated the winning projects. Regarding the two projects selected to participate in the National Science and Technology Competition, the Department of Education and Training will continue to invest to improve the efficiency and applicability of the projects.

The contest organizers awarded third prizes to the winning projects. Photo: MH

After this competition, the Director of the Department of Education and Training also hopes that schools need to encourage and create mechanisms to help students have conditions to conduct scientific research. From there, create a playground and experience to help students express their passion and spread the spirit of the competition, spreading 174 projects to create a movement of innovation in schools.

List of winning projects:

Projects won First, Second, Third and Fourth prizes. Photo: MH

Units won collective prizes at the Provincial Science and Technology Competition for the 2020-2021 school year. Photo: MH