The final round of Robocon Vietnam 2013, held in central Da Nang city on
the evening of May 12, saw the great success of Lac Hong University’s
teams which overcame 29 other teams to reap all the three top prizes.
The university’s LH-SEE team won the championship with prize money of
50 million VND (approximately 2,390 USD). The LH-NVN EAGLE ranked
second, while LH-ET* team shared the third prize with the BKD-PTC team
of Da Nang University of Science and Technology.
Accordingly, the
two highest-ranked teams of LH-SEE and LH-NVN EAGLE will represent
Vietnam at the 2013 Asian-Pacific Robot Contest (ABU Robocon) which is
scheduled for August in Vietnam .
This is the fourth consecutive year Lac Hong University has won the Robocon Vietnam contest.
Established in 1997, Lac Hong University in the southern
province of Dong Nai has 12 faculties, offering training courses in
21 majors. The university has an enrolment of 20,000 students in the
2012-2013 academic year.
The 2013 Robocon Vietnam competition
themed “Green Planet” was co-organised by Toyota Motors Vietnam and
Vietnam Television, seeing the competition among 180 teams from 45
universities and colleges nationwide. Thirty two best teams were
selected for the final round.-VNA