HSU Programming Challenge 2025: A Launchpad for Future Programmers

The final round of the HSU Programming Challenge 2025 gathers 20 high school and university teams in Ho Chi Minh City. Ho Chi Minh City competed and launched a series of practical technology products, such as an AI Chatbot, an AI-integrated website, Game, IoT, … affirming the quality of technology training at Hoa Sen University and being a prestigious playground for future programmers.

Young people solve practical problems with technology

HSU Programming Challenge 2025 affirms its position as an annual student programming contest when attracting many talented contestants from all high schools and universities in Ho Chi Minh City. Ho Chi Minh City participated.

The quality of this year’s contest is no longer limited to the Mobile segment but has expanded to other applications, such as Web, Desktop, IoT, AI, etc., to help them fully experience what they have learned, accumulate new technologies from the jury and your team to be ready for future work.

At the final round held on March 16, 2025, 15 university teams and 5 high school teams presented their projects to the jury of technology experts at businesses, Hoa Sen University lecturers, and teachers from high schools. The projects span many fields of modern technology, from Mobile apps, Web, IoT, to Games.

Many products are designed to solve real-life challenges. These include an AI chatbot for tour consulting, an AI assistant for student chemistry knowledge, and a Gene AI platform for exploring Vietnamese history and culture.

Like many travelers, I have struggled to get the right information from existing travel chatbots. That is why I have developed a comprehensive tour website with a powerful AI chatbot that provides accurate, detailed answers to every inquiry.

Mr. Pham Quang Vinh, Student of HSU Faculty of Information Technology

With the ChemGenie project, Mr. Tran Duy Nhan from Nguyen Chi Thanh High School said, “In the process of learning, we have found out some problems that chemistry is facing, thereby learning about current technologies and using AI to solve them. After building the software, we ask teachers and students at school to use it to see if the software has errors or is overloaded.”

Mobile App, Web, IoT, and Games are the prominent trends at the contest

Speaking at the final round, Dr. Le Dinh Phong, Dean of the Faculty of Information Technology, emphasized the influence of AI in the current context, especially on the labor market: “To be able to prepare the best luggage for students, besides providing knowledge, teachers always try to create playgrounds to help students unleash their creativity and improve their professional qualifications.”

Experiencing “breathtaking” competitions and convincing the jury, the HSU Programming Challenge 2025 has found excellent technology projects and talented faces of the contest:

HIGH SCHOOL CATEGORY

First Prize: How To Love Viet Nam (Nguyen Chi Thanh High School), a website that integrates Genesis AI and Flashcards about national history and culture through E-Learning and Mindmap lectures;

Second Prize: ChemGenie (Nguyen Chi Thanh High School), an AI assistant that assists high school students in looking up chemistry knowledge and creating exam questions according to the General Education Program 2018;

Third Prize: Lesson Quality Assessment Project through Facial Emotion Analysis (Bui Thi Xuan High School);

2 Consolation Prizes: Anti Game Addiction (Bui Thi Xuan High School) and Defend the Galaxy (Duong Van Thi High School).

UNIVERSITY CATEGORY

First Prize: TourFlow Chatbot, a Smart Chatbot for tour advice;

Second Prize: Ahoc, a mobile application that supports students to improve their career skills;

Third Prize: Dev Pass, an Information management mobile application for programmers;

2 Consolation Prizes: Brainable and Alife mobile apps.

A launchpad for future programmers

The success of HSU Programming Challenge 2025 lies not only in quality projects but also in the practical values that students and students receive. Contestants could access the latest technology, hone their problem-solving skills, develop logical thinking, and work in teams. These are important factors to help young people confidently enter the real working environment.

This is a very good opportunity for students to connect the knowledge they have learned together. Through teamwork, you divide people into front-end, back-end, testing, or facility. All of that is connected to become a unified system, and that is also the practical problem that you will experience when you go to work. It’s impossible for a programmer in an enterprise to do it all from start to finish, but you have to work together.

MSc. Nguyen Huu Phat, Director of the Center for Student Experience and Corporate Relations.

With the orientation of becoming a leading university in technology training for domestic and international students, HSU Programming Challenge will continue to improve the quality and update the latest technology trends, providing a professional and inspiring playground for the future generation of programmers.

Created: Tấn Tài – Hoài Thương

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