Vietnamese student scores highest at Asian Physics Olympiad
By Duong Tam May 24, 2021 | 01:33 pm GMT+7
Nguyen Manh Quan at his home in Hanoi. Photo by VnExpress/Thanh Hang.
A Hanoi 12th grader has become the first Vietnamese to achieve the highest score at Asian Physics Olympiad.
Vietnam sent a team of eight students to the 21st Asian Physics Olympiad (APhO), with six scooping medals.
Nguyen Manh Quan and Tran Quang Vinh, both 12th graders from Hanoi - Amsterdam High School for the Gifted, pocketed golds.
Quan scored the highest among all contestants, becoming the first Vietnamese student to achieve such a fete at an APhO event.
A physics major at the Hanoi-Amsterdam High School for the Gifted has received two pieces of good news – acceptance letters from MIT and Princeton University in the US.