 |
| An exhilarating tug-of-war match attracts enthusiastic cheers from the gang, changing into one of the vital thrilling highlights on the sports activities festival on the VNU-HCM campus on May 23. — Photo courtesy of the organisers |
HCM CITY — A sports activities festival celebrating National Science, Technology, and Innovation Day 2026 kicked off on May 23 on the Việt Nam National University-HCM City (VNU-HCM) campus, drawing roughly 430 athletes from 29 establishments throughout town.
The occasion was co-organised by the HCM City Department of Science and Technology and VNU-HCM, in alignment with Plan No. 163 issued by the municipal People’s Committee to commemorate National Science and Technology Week.
The festival goals to offer a vibrant platform for networking and bodily health, strengthening solidarity amongst civil servants, lecturers, scientists, researchers, and employees within the fields of science, know-how, innovation, and digital transformation throughout town.
Furthermore, the initiative promotes bodily coaching whereas fostering strategic partnerships and collaboration amongst state companies, analysis institutes, universities, and technology-driven enterprises.
This collective effort is geared in direction of constructing a dynamic, progressive, and sustainable scientific neighborhood.
Under the banner “Be Healthy to Research, Innovate, and Dedicate,” the occasion highlights the holistic improvement of town’s mental workforce—making certain they aren’t solely professionally competent but additionally bodily and mentally resilient.
This aligns with HCM City’s strategic imaginative and prescient to remodel into a number one regional hub for science, know-how, and innovation.
 |
| Delegates and athletes collect for a bunch picture on the opening ceremony of the sports activities festival celebrating National Science, Technology, and Innovation Day 2026 on the VNU-HCM campus on May 23. |
Participants are competing throughout 5 sports activities classes, all organised to skilled, honest, and secure requirements with complete medical and logistical assist.
Badminton: 147 athletes from 91 groups are competing in males’s, ladies’s, and combined doubles on the gymnasiums of the University of Social Sciences and Humanities and the University of Science.
Pickleball: The quickly rising sport has attracted 118 athletes throughout 68 duos, with matches hosted on the Pickleball Club of the HCM City University of Physical Education and Sports.
Track and Field, Tug-of-War, and Chess: The VNU-HCM Executive House is internet hosting the remaining three disciplines.
These embody relay races that includes 21 groups in males’s, ladies’s, and combined 4x100m classes; a tug-of-war competitors with eight groups dealing with off in direct knockouts; and Chinese chess, which has gathered 28 gamers vying for particular person males’s and girls’s titles.
The festival is predicted to closely promote bodily health amongst intellectuals, thereby cultivating a constructive and inventive working tradition.
It is a part of a collection of national actions marking May 18, a day devoted to honouring scientific achievements and fostering a tradition of innovation.
It additionally reaffirms the pivotal function of science, know-how, innovation, and digital transformation in driving town’s speedy and sustainable improvement within the new period. — VNS