On May 12th, Ho Chi Minh City University of Technology Education, in collaboration with the Ho Chi Minh City Youth Union, hosted the 33rd "Young Informatics Contest of Ho Chi Minh City" final round for 2024.

The competition aims to foster creativity and a passion for technology and information among students from elementary, middle, and high schools. It also aims to identify, gather, and develop young talents in informatics, contributing to the city's information technology workforce.

Group A with 215 contestants competing in programming skills for elementary school students.
Group B with 206 contestants competing in programming skills for middle school students.
Group C1 with 136 contestants competing in programming skills for specialized high school students.
Group C2 with 188 contestants competing in programming skills for non-specialized high school students.
Groups D1 and D2 with 65 contestants presenting creative informatics products for high school students.
Elementary school contestants had 90 minutes to apply their math and computer science knowledge, using either Scratch or Python programming languages to create simple games or solve programming problems related to the elementary school curriculum.

Middle school contestants in Group B had 150 minutes, and Group C contestants had 180 minutes to solve online programming problems using programming languages such as Pascal, C/C++, Python, etc., following international competition standards (ICPC) and algorithms relevant to their school levels on the VNOJ programming platform.

The competition's Informatics Knowledge and Skills tested themes related to the 70th anniversary of the victory at Dien Bien Phu (May 7, 1954 - May 7, 2024), as well as key city development programs and initiatives.
In addition to cash prizes and commendations from the Ho Chi Minh City People's Committee and Youth Union, outstanding contestants will be selected for further training and participation in the 30th National Young Informatics Contest in 2024, scheduled for June or July this year.

The organizing committee implemented automatic programming systems from the district level onwards this year, providing contestants with closer exposure to city and national-level contest organization and enhancing competition quality and fairness.

At the city-level final round, contestants from Groups B, C1, and C2 in the Computer Skills category had their exams directly graded against 50% of the official test set of the contest. This provided them an opportunity to evaluate the accuracy of their algorithms and optimize them for the highest possible results at the competition.
"This year's competition included 2 contestants competing beyond their current education level: Đỗ Thị Thanh Bình (Le Ngoc Han Elementary School, District 1), moving from elementary (Group A) to middle school (Group B), and Lê Viết Nam Khôi (Viet Uc School), moving from non-specialized high school (Group C2) to specialized high school (Group C1)," shared a representative of the organizing committee.