What is the schedule for the Youth Informatics Competition in Hanoi for the 2024-2025 school year?

What is the schedule for the Youth Informatics Competition in Hanoi for the 2024-2025 school year?

In the context of the explosive growth of the 4.0 revolution, where information technology is advancing rapidly, equipping students with the essential digital knowledge and skills to approach and adapt should be a top priority. Among these, Informatics plays a crucial role at the secondary education level in enhancing students' ability to receive, connect, expand knowledge, and foster creativity.

To provide students in the capital with a free digital technology playground, the Hanoi Department of Education and Training (DOET) officially launched the International Youth Informatics Competition in Hanoi for the 2024-2025 school year. Download.

This is the second year the Hanoi DOET is cooperating with IIG Vietnam – the national representative of Certiport (USA), a leading global IT certification body, to organize the competition for students from grades 3 to 12 across the city.

Specifically, on December 24, 2024, the Hanoi Department of Education and Training issued the Rules for the International Youth Informatics Talent Competition, Hanoi City, for the 2024-2025 school year. Download.

The detailed schedule for the Youth Informatics Competition in Hanoi for the 2024-2025 school year is as follows:

(1) For Primary Level

(2) For Lower Secondary Level

(3) For Upper Secondary Level

What is the schedule for the Youth Informatics Competition in Hanoi for the 2024-2025 school year? (Image from the Internet)

What are the objectives of Informatics at the lower secondary level in Vietnam?

According to sub-section 3, section 3, of the General Education Program for Informatics issued with Circular 32/2018/TT-BGDDT, the objectives of Informatics at the lower secondary level in Vietnam are:

- Assisting students to develop thinking and problem-solving skills; knowing how to select suitable and useful data and information; knowing how to divide a large problem into smaller tasks; initially having a modeling mindset of a problem through understanding and using algorithms and visual programming concepts; knowing how to use patterns in designing and creating digital products; knowing how to evaluate the results of digital products and make adjustments and correct errors in these products.

- Enabling students to use tools, devices, and software knowingly; know how to organize storage, exploit multimedia resources; create and share simple digital products for learning and life; have awareness and capability in applying ICT for personal and community benefits.

- Familiarizing students with digital services and common software for life, learning and self-learning, communication and collaboration in the community; have a fundamental understanding of laws, ethics, and culture related to using information resources and online communication; initially recognize some main professions related to the field of informatics.

What are the required specific competencies for students in Informatics at the lower secondary level?

According to sub-section 2, section 4, of the General Education Program for Informatics issued with Circular 32/2018/TT-BGDDT, the required specific competencies for students in 6th-grade Informatics are detailed as follows:

(1) Use and management of information and communication technology;

Using properly various devices, common software, and computer networks for life and learning; having awareness and understanding of exploiting the digital environment, knowing how to organize and store data; initially creating digital products to serve life by utilizing application software. For example, creating a beautiful photograph, an advertisement, a fashion design, a video serving a particular theme,...

(2) Appropriate digital etiquette

Knowing and stating some basic rules related to the ownership and use of digital resources, respecting copyright and others' information safety rights; understanding and behaving appropriately in the virtual world; using common methods to protect personal and community information, avoiding negative impacts on oneself and the community; being mindful of self-protection in health while exploring and applying ICT.

(3) Problem-solving with the support of information and communication technology;

Understanding the importance of information and information processing in modern society; fetching information from various sources using simple search tool functions, assessing the relevance of found information and data with the task at hand; operating with software and a visual programming environment to initially design and control systems.

(4) Application of information and communication technology in learning and self-learning;

Using some educational software; using computer network environments to search, collect, update, and store information suitable for learning objectives, actively utilizing resources to aid self-learning.

(5) Collaboration in the digital environment:

Knowing how to choose and use common ICT tools and services to share, exchange information, and collaborate safely; interacting in a civilized manner in the digital society; being able to work in groups, and collaborate in creating, presenting, and introducing digital products; recognizing an overview of some primary fields within informatics.