QUOTE (RockHeart @ Feb 15 2005, 10:34 AM)
How can the people who living in VN have the knowledge to learn the programming?? I believe that their lives dont even have enough foods to eat...So. How can they have budgets to spend for some stuffs of learning!!!!
RH,

Vietnamese students win first prize at Robocon 2004 in Seoul
Members of the Vietnamese FXR team share their happiness in the Robot Contest 2004 in Seoul.— Vietnamnet Photo
HA NOI — Viet Nam’s FXR boys won Saturday’s final round at the Asia–Pacific Robot 2004 (Robocon), held in the Republic of Korea.
In the first round, Japan beat Sri Lanka, and Viet Nam beat Japan, advancing the Viet Nam team to the semi-finals, where they defeated the RoK with a score of 15-3. In the final round, they beat their Chinese competitors for first place.
This year’s competition used the tale The Reunion of the Shepherd and the Weaver as its theme. The story goes that the gods become upset with the laziness of a Shepherd and his Weaver wife and separate them. Annually, the gods take pity on the pair and erect a bridge so they may meet.
Each round, teams drove their robots (shepherds) across an area (the bridge) carrying red boxes (gifts for the Weaver). The team that could carry the most items within an allotted amount of time would win the round.
The Viet Nam team consisted of seven students from the HCM City-based University of Technology; the team also won the contest’s Best Idea Award.
Robocon, an annual international competition organised by the Asia-Pacific Broadcasting Union, currently has more than 100 member broadcasters, from 50 countries and regions.
Viet Nam won the first Robocon contest two years ago in Tokyo, Japan. The team came in third at last year’s contest in Thailand, and won Viet Nam’s annual Robot Contest in Ha Noi in May.
Twenty teams from 19 countries and territories participated in the contest, which the Korea Broadcasting System (KBS) sponsored. — VNS