The "huge" achievement of the student who won first prize in the Youth Informatics contest in Nghe An province

Hearing that Nguyen Trinh Tuan Dat, a 9D student at Ly Nhat Quang Secondary School - Do Luong, won first prize in the 24th Nghe An Youth Informatics Contest, on the evening of May 13, after receiving the award in the province and returning home, many neighbors and relatives came to congratulate Dat.

Ms. Huyen - Dat's mother always encourages her son during his studies. Photo: Le Ngoc Phuong

In a small house in hamlet 11, Da Son commune, beside a pot of green tea, everyone was very happy because the hamlet had another valedictorian in an exam. Before that, Quynh Chau, a student in the hamlet, won a Gold Medal in the National English Math Competition in Hanoi.

With a gentle smile, Dat said that this time, there were 42 students participating in the Junior High School Competition. The content of the competition was quite long with the topic: Practice programming to solve Math problems using the Pascal programming language library, C/C++ and the Scratch drag-and-drop programming language. In 150 minutes, Dat achieved a score of almost the maximum 97/100 points.

Besides being good at IT and Math, Dat is also passionate about English. Photo: Le Ngoc Phuong

According to Dat, to be good at IT, first of all, you have to learn Math and English well, and have creative thinking. When at home, Dat often practices 1 to 2 hours on the computer. During school, he often talks with friends and tries to ask teachers when encountering difficult IT lessons.

Nguyen Trinh Tuan Dat's academic achievements:

- Grade 2 and 3: Grade 2 took the 3rd grade English competition, Grade 3 took the 4th grade English competition and both won first prize.

- Grade 5: Second prize in provincial English.

- Grade 6: Valedictorian of the district's excellent IT students.

- Grade 7: First Prize in English.

- Grade 8: First prize in the district-level Internet English Olympic competition.

- Grade 8 and 9: Valedictorian of the district.

Commenting on Dat, Mr. Nguyen Cong Hiep - an IT teacher at Ly Nhat Quang Secondary School, who participated in training the Nghe An IT team for the National Competition in 2017 - said: "Dat is a student with high confidence in his studies. Thanks to his good math skills, Dat's IT thinking is very good. He has good algorithms to optimally solve difficult problems."

Nguyen Trinh Tuan Dat and IT teacher Nguyen Cong Hiep. Photo: Le Ngoc Phuong

"Although he is a good student and has two younger siblings, Dat still often does housework diligently, such as cooking, washing dishes, cleaning the house and many other things" - Dat's mother Huyen shared.

According to the schedule, early August, Dat will take part in the National Young Informatics Competition in Ba Ria - Vung Tau. Hopefully, with his long history of academic achievements, maturity and good IT thinking, Dat will continue to achieve high scores./.