International Exchange

Report on the Scientific Seminar in Vietnam

1. Schedule
　December 17 to December 22, 2013

2. Members
　11 Grade-11 students of SSH program and 3 teacher escorts

3. Hotel
　Daewoo Hotel in Hanoi

4. Itinerary

 After arriving at Noi Bay International Airport in Hanoi, our students went to Lake Hoan Kiem, where they met Nguyen Sieu High School students and teachers and interacted with them.

 Our students visited Nam Son village in Hoa Binh province, where the Muong people live, learned about local plants and their usage, and analyzed water around the village.
 In addition, they deepened their mutual friendship with gestures, and had the local food for lunch with the Muong youth.

 At Hanoi University of Science and Technology, the 6 students of Group A attended 3 lectures in English given by: Professor Huynh
 Trung Hai on the Institute for Environmental Science and Technology and its research; Dr. Van Dieu Anh on water purification in Vietnam; and Associate Professor Ms. Hoang Thi Thu Huong on biodiversity in Vietnam.
 After these three lectures, our students made presentations on their research in English to some students and professors of the university and afterward answered questions about their research from them.
 In the afternoon, they paid a courtesy visit to the Ministry of Education and Training.

 In addition, the 5 students of Group B visited a shrimp farm in Thai Binh province, learned about shrimp farming, and looked around there. They also did fieldwork at the mouth of the Hong River in the mangrove area.

 Our students visited Nguyen Sieu High School in order to encourage cultural and scientific exchange. They made presentations on their research again. They attended English and history classes with their assigned partners. They also performed “Yosakoisoran (a Japanese traditional dance)” for Nguyen Sieu students and staff and then enjoyed making Vietnamese rice cakes together.

 In the morning, our students visited the Citadel of Than Long, a World Heritage Site. In the afternoon, we toured the construction site of a big suspension bridge over the Hong River, which is being built by a Japanese construction company, Nippon Engineering Consultants.
 After that, Japanese senior workers from Kajima Kensetsu, another　Japanese construction company, gave talks on Vietnam and their work etc. to our students.