Trinh Duy Hieu has gained outstanding achievements during his 12 years of studying hard. Particularly, he has won the titles of excellent student for many academic years and bagged gold medal in physics at the contest for excellent students of high schools for the gifted in northern coastal and delta areas in the academic year of 2016-2017. He consecutively won the first prizes at the national contest for excellent students when he was at grade 11 and 12.

Chairman and Vice Chairman of the provincial People’s Committee Nguyen Van Linh and Le Anh Duong, leaders of the Department of Education and Training and some other departments present flowers to congratulate Trinh Duy Hieu.

Nguyen Thi Thuy, Hieu’s mother could not accompany her son during his competition abroad. In her house at Dao Su Tich Street, Ngo Quyen ward, Bac Giang city, she shared, “My family have followed the competition via mass media these days. We could hardly contain our joys and pride when our son overcame a new challenge”.

Success gained from endless efforts

At APhO, each country sends an 8-contestant team. Every contestant had to take two 5-hour long exams, one theory and one practical physics test. The scores for the theory and practical exams are 30 and 20 respectively.

Representative of the Department of Education and Training, teachers of Bac Giang High School for Gifted Students and his relatives welcome Trinh Duy Hieu at Noi Bai Airport on 14 May.

According to head teacher Nguyen Van Doa who directly instructed Hieu, Hieu is not “chip off the old block” but he always studies hard and strives for his targets. 

The teacher and student have made endless efforts spending most of their time for practising while focusing on solving various types of physics problems, studying the world’ latest physics research works and paying attention to specific and real phenomena. 

In line with his great efforts, Hieu’s success has been achieved by his experiences in a number of big competitions, which helped him confident in doing the tests.

Hieu’s outstanding achievement at the Asian Physics Olympiad brought a great pride to himself, his family, Bac Giang High School for Gifted Students and the provincial educational sector as well.

With his silver medal, Hieu will join the Vietnamese national team to compete at the International Physics Olympiad organized in Israel this July.

Mai Toan