Dong Nai’s outstanding students awarded Odon Vallet scholarships

11:09, 19/09/2013

(ĐN)- Lately, 15 students of Luong The Vinh High School in Bien Hoa city out of 440 outstanding students in southern provinces were awarded 2013 Odon Vallet scholarships at a ceremony held by the Rencontre du Viet Nam (Meet Viet Nam) Organisation in HCM City.

(ĐN)- Lately, 15 students of Luong The Vinh High School in Bien Hoa city out of 440 outstanding students in southern provinces were awarded 2013 Odon Vallet scholarships at a ceremony held by the Rencontre du Viet Nam (Meet Viet Nam) Organisation in HCM City.

Each senior high school student was given a scholarship worth VND7 million and each student at colleges and universities received VND12 million.

The scholarships were presented by Prof. Odon Vallet (who started the foundation), Prof. Tran Thanh Van and the American Nobel laureates for physics, Sheldon Glashow and David Gross.

Since 2000, Vallet and Van, the promoters of the Meet Vietnam Programme, have presented thousands of scholarships to Vietnamese students.

The scholarships help encourage and support the beneficiaries to overcome difficulties in learning while promoting the importance of basic sciences.

Reported by H.D