Hai Phong spends 2.7 billion VND to reward students and teachers who won Olympic medals

Hai Phong City Party Secretary Le Tien Chau presents awards to students with high achievements in regional and international Olympic competitions. (Photo: Minh Hue/VNA)

On the afternoon of July 31, Hai Phong city held a ceremony to commend and reward Hai Phong students and teachers who achieved high results in the 2024 regional and international Olympic competitions. The total bonus for officials, teachers and students is 2.7 billion VND.

In the 2023-2024 school year, Hai Phong has achieved many brilliant achievements in training and fostering excellent international students.

Hai Phong is one of the few localities with 4 students participating in 4 teams (Math, Physics, Biology, IT) and winning 5 medals (1 International Gold medal in Biology, 1 International Silver medal in Physics, 1 International Bronze medal in Math, 1 Asian Bronze medal in Physics).

With this achievement, the Chairman of Hai Phong City People's Committee decided to award Certificates of Merit and prizes to four students from Tran Phu High School for the Gifted, including: Nguyen Si Hieu, a 12th grade Biology student who won a Gold Medal at the International Biology Olympiad with a prize of 500 million VND.

A reward of 400 million VND was given to Nguyen Thanh Duy, a 12th grade Physics major who won a Silver medal at the International Physics Olympiad and a Bronze medal at the Asian Physics Olympiad; Pham Tran Minh Duc, a 12th grade Math major who won a Bronze medal at the International Math Olympiad with a reward of 300 million VND; Nguyen Tung Lam, a 12th grade IT major who won a Silver medal at the Asia-Pacific Informatics Olympiad with a reward of 200 million VND.

The city leaders also awarded Certificates of Merit and rewards to teachers who directly taught, teachers who participated in teaching students who achieved high results in regional and international Olympic competitions in 2024, and to the Board of Directors of Tran Phu High School for the Gifted.

Nguyen Si Hieu, a 12th grade Biology student at Tran Phu High School for the Gifted, shared that they were very proud to have brought home prestigious medals. The competitions helped them realize that human knowledge is extremely vast, and only with constant efforts and an open heart ready to share, learn, and absorb new things can they have enough knowledge to integrate into the global knowledge society.

At this time, you not only look back at the successes you have achieved but also aim for higher goals in the future.

Nguyen Si Hieu believes that with determination and will to strive, he and his friends will continue to reap even more brilliant successes.

Teacher Kim Thi Huong - Biology teacher, Tran Phu High School for the Gifted, on behalf of the teachers leading the teams, expressed sincere thanks to the city leaders, the leaders of the Department of Education and Training, and Tran Phu High School for the Gifted for always paying the greatest attention and timely encouragement to the teams. This is a great motivation for the teachers to always strive in the work of discovering and nurturing excellent students.

Teacher Kim Thi Huong promises to continue to do her best to fulfill her duties, actively improve her professional skills, detect and nurture students early, and make every effort with the hope of contributing a small part to the construction and development of the city's education sector.

Congratulating the students and teachers for their high achievements in the regional and international Olympic competitions, Hai Phong City Party Secretary Le Tien Chau praised the achievements that the students have made, saying that they are very meaningful, not only for the individual students, their families, and their schools, but also contributing to adding to the golden record of achievements of the city's education sector.

Hai Phong City Party Secretary Le Tien Chau congratulated students and teachers for their achievements in regional and international Olympic competitions. (Photo: Minh Hue/VNA)

The commendation and reward ceremony is a timely recognition of the city and the education sector's attention to the achievements of teachers and students.

Secretary of the City Party Committee Le Tien Chau suggested that the education sector continue to spread this program to all students in the area to create motivation and widely spread the spirit of studiousness in society; at the same time, he hoped that the education sector would pay more attention to mass education to create conditions for new factors to shine, especially, creating an environment for them to develop comprehensively in both intelligence and strength, love, pride in their homeland and self-reliance.

Along with that, the city cares about the wishes of teachers, along with policies and mechanisms to attract high-quality human resources to build and develop a green, civilized and modern port city./.

Source: https://www.vietnamplus.vn/hai-phong-danh-27-ty-dong-thuong-hoc-sinh-giao-vien-dat-huy-chuong-olympic-post967970.vnp