A new education group called Embassy Education has signed with top collaborators from the US, Finland, and Italy to build learning programmes for Vietnamese children. Founder Thanh Bui and key collaborators celebrated the launch of Embassy Education Embassy Education Group, founded by Vietnamese-Australian entrepreneur Thanh Bui, aims to offer an integrated learning experience for children from pre-school to high school and beyond, with an emphasis on developing the next generation of ambassadors and global citizens for Vietnam. The group boasts of collaborating with various education researchers and institutions around the world. The list includes Reggio Children (Italy) to bring the first Reggio Children Exhibition and Atelier to Vietnam, as well as Harvard Graduate School of Education – Project Zero (PZ), University of Turku (Finland), and 180 Studio (US). "The world will continue to change, and we don't know what the future will look like, but if we equip our … [Read more...] about New initiative to promote international education in Vietnam
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Library opens free reading room for young readers
Viet Nam News HCM CITY — The HCM City General Sciences Library has opened a new reading room serving young readers aged between five and 18. The room will offer a large collection of hundreds of documents, books, dictionaries, videos, cassette tapes and CDs about Vietnamese and foreign literature, music and science. All information and photos have been digitised to offer quality services for readers. Computers, PCs, tablets and Lego Robots are also included. The room’s librarians were trained by the Department of Education and Training. “Our reading room has several thousand books in different fields. We will add 300 new book titles per week. We can serve 400 readers a day,” said Đỗ Thị Mai Loan, deputy head of the library’s service room. “We hope our new reading room will attract and entertain young readers,” she added. Established in 1978, HCM City General … [Read more...] about Library opens free reading room for young readers
New technological environment for children launched in HCMC
This is a special space modernly designed to serve learning, information searching, and scientific practice purposes, especially on STEM (Science – Technology – Engineering – Maths) topics, for children living in HCMC. Possessing a surface area of nearly 450 sq.m, S.hub Kids is divided into many functional areas like STEM classrooms, an astronomy room, reading space, scientific practice space, and multimedia entertainment space. All of them are well equipped with state-of-the-art devices from Samsung like smart interactive boards, digital Flip Chart boards, tablets, and updated Lego Robot packs. Taking advantage of these available tools, STEM classes and activities are organized to meet the diverse demands of different groups of library users ranging from children to adolescents. Some prominent sessions are STEM Interesting Science, which draws inspiration from familiar daily equipment, or STEM Robotics, which focuses on basic programming techniques. Along with … [Read more...] about New technological environment for children launched in HCMC
Vietnamese student teams win big at US lego event
The competition offers four top Innovative Awards, one in each category of Poster, Model, Programming and Research. This year is the first time Vietnam has sent representatives to the competition. The Innovative Poster Award this year was given to three teams: Team 14537, Wellspring of Vietnam; Team 6007, the Water Saviors of Tampa, Fla. and Team 9808, the Sea Mustangs of Sugar Land, Texas. Vietnamese students from Hanoi’s Wellspring School won the Innovative Poster Award at the First Lego League Jr. World Festival Expo, part of the three-day 2018 First Lego League event held in Houston. Photo: dantri.com.vn First Lego League Jr. World Festival Expo introduces children ages 6 to 9 to the world of science and technology. In this year’s Challenge, AQUA ADVENTURESM, 16,767 teams used Lego elements and Lego Education WeDo 2.0 to build and program a moving model, and then share their discoveries about where water comes from and what happens on its way to people. … [Read more...] about Vietnamese student teams win big at US lego event
VN teams win big at US lego event
Viet Nam News HÀ NỘI — A Vietnamese student team from the Wellspring School in Hà Nội has won the Innovative Poster Award of the First Lego League Jr. World Festival Expo, part of the three-day 2018 First Lego League event held in Houston, the United States, which wrapped up on Saturday. The competition offers four top Innovative Awards, one in each category of Poster, Model, Programming and Research. This year is the first time Việt Nam has sent representatives to the competition. The Innovative Poster Award this year was given to three teams: Team 14537, Wellspring of Việt Nam; Team 6007, the Water Saviors of Tampa, Fla. and Team 9808, the Sea Mustangs of Sugar Land, Texas. First Lego League Jr. World Festival Expo introduces children ages 6 to 9 to the world of science and technology. In this year’s Challenge, AQUA ADVENTURESM, 16,767 teams used Lego elements and Lego Education WeDo 2.0 to build and programme a moving model, and … [Read more...] about VN teams win big at US lego event