On May 24, the 2026 National STEM Competition – Vietnam STEM Challenge for Global Green (Green STEM 2026), was organized by the Institute of Educational Sciences and Skill Development, underneath the Association of Vietnam Universities and Colleges. The occasion aimed to foster scientific considering, artistic capability, and technological abilities for Okay-12 college students amid Vietnam’s push for science, know-how, innovation, and nationwide digital transformation.
The competitors targets a substantive STEM strategy tied to sustainable growth, inexperienced know-how, and the rising necessities of the digital economic system. This yr’s competitors gathers 33 groups from 19 schools throughout localities together with Hanoi, HCMC, Hung Yen, and Vinh Phuc.
Speaking at the occasion, Nguyen Quan, head of the competitors’s skilled committee, famous that Green STEM 2026 takes place as Vietnam is implementing Resolution 57 of the Politburo on science, know-how, innovation, and nationwide digital transformation, together with Resolution 71 on instructional growth and reform.
According to Quan, one in all the main considerations amongst dad and mom and college students in the present day is enhancing digital capabilities and equipping learners with foundational technological data. To obtain this, STEM schooling ought to be launched into schools ranging from the major stage.
He famous that just lately the Ministry of Education and Training (MOET) has strongly promoted STEM integration into the nationwide curriculum whereas additionally creating STEM instructing employees and associated textbooks and reference supplies.
“I’m more than happy that just lately MOET has been extremely decided to combine STEM schooling into the basic schooling curriculum. Today’s Green STEM 2026 competitors is one symbolic exercise reflecting that effort.
“It is also a stepping stone for us to later introduce AI into general education, so that all students graduating from K-12 education will have the minimum knowledge of digital technology, AI, and STEM. From there, they can continue higher education or enter the labor market with a basic yet important foundation of knowledge,” Quan mentioned.
According to MOET, in 2024 Vietnam recorded greater than 218,000 newly enrolled college students in STEM-related majors, accounting for round 36 p.c of whole nationwide college admissions. STEM coaching scale elevated by 10.6 p.c in comparison with 2023.
STEM is greater than robotics and coding
One present limitation is that STEM in many locations continues to be narrowly understood as robotic meeting or programming, whereas the core of STEM is creating scientific considering, creativity, and sensible problem-solving abilities.
Green STEM 2026 is designed to assist college students be taught by way of hands-on experiences: observing, questioning, experimenting, enhancing, and refining options.
Competition actions mix science, know-how, engineering, and arithmetic to unravel issues associated to the setting, vitality, inexperienced know-how, and sustainable growth.
The “Green” spirit of the competitors goes past environmental themes, aiming to foster inexperienced considering, social duty, and innovation capability amongst college students amid world digital and inexperienced transitions.
The organizers mentioned the competitors consists of a number of classes and approaches to allow college students to showcase their particular person strengths. Evaluation standards focus not solely on the last product but additionally on considering processes, collaboration, resolution enchancment, and creativity.
STEM ecosystem linked to innovation
Green STEM 2026 additionally goals to construct a extra sensible STEM schooling setting in schools. According to the organizers, STEM academics mustn’t merely act as technical instructors but additionally know the best way to encourage scientific considering and information college students in commentary, experimentation, evaluation, and resolution refinement.
Through the competitors, academics can acquire publicity to extra sensible STEM exercise fashions whereas serving to schools develop STEM, robotics, and utilized science golf equipment suited to totally different instructional ranges.
The organizers consider sustainable STEM growth requires collaboration amongst schools, consultants, analysis establishments, universities, and know-how enterprises to create an schooling ecosystem linked to innovation.
One spotlight of Green STEM 2026 is its connection to the World GreenMech Contest, a global STEM competitors for college students that includes groups from a number of international locations and territories throughout the area.
Outstanding groups could also be chosen, skilled, and nominated to take part in the World GreenMech Contest based mostly on their scientific considering, sensible abilities, teamwork, creativity, and presentation talents.
Thai Khang