Students highlighted in QTSC

Joining hands with companies to host an upcoming fair for students, Quang Trung Software City (QTSC) is intensifying its effort to help students – the potential human resource for the software industry – and introducing the image, products and solutions of QTSC to Vietnamese firms.

As part of the endeavor to respond to the “Buy Vietnamese” campaign designed to shore up the slowing economy, QTSC in cooperation with its partners is hosting the event “Sale Fair for Students – Quang Trung Software City 2013”. Scheduled for June 13-16 at QTSC in District 12, HCMC, the fair will attract not only software and information technology (IT) enterprises but also those specializing in consumer goods, aiming to promote brands, seek potential human resources from a large number of students and popularize the QTSC image in the community.

 

A fair for students

According to the organizing committee, the event is part of the “Big Sale Month 2013 Fair” chaired by the HCMC Department of Industry and Trade. The fair is a chance for poor workers and students to access quality products at reduced prices. “This is also a playground and a shopping venue for city dwellers,” says Le Van Khoa, deputy director of the HCMC Department of Industry and Trade.

At the fair in QTSC, there is a wide range of community activities designed for students, such as scholarships and music performances.

Morning book café, dancing robot performance, break dance performance, masquerade, handmade products display and secondhand and recycled products exchange are some of the event’s highlights.

The organizers will also hand scholarships for robot projects developed by students from universities in a bid to honor creativeness and talent of young IT persons.

Meanwhile, the break dance competition among many dance groups around the city and in neighboring provinces, and the music performance at night will lend a youthful atmosphere to the site.

SALE PROMOTION FAIR FOR STUDENTS “Sale Fair for Students – Quang Trung Software City 2013” features 100-120 booths and a wide range of activities, including games and music performances. • Time: June 13-16 • Venue: Quang Trung Software City, District 12, HCMC • Participants: 150 companies and seven universities • Visitors: 20,000 a day (estimated)

An IT playground

Lam Nguyen Hai Long, deputy CEO of QTSC, says the “Sale Fair for Students – Quang Trung Software City 2013” is one of the annual activities organized by QTSC where students can learn, exchange and study IT and software fi rms’ operation.

QTSC has been organizing the “Playing games with robots – learning Pascal” program for universities and high schools to promote students’ IT inspiration and encourage them to study IT. QTSC has cooperated with the HCMC Youth League and SaigonTech to organize the city’s young computer contest for students from primary schools to high schools.

The software park has offered free IT courses for 620 learners to help programmers and students improve knowledge and technical skills.

“Through these activities, QTSC wants to create a useful playground for students and employees from companies in QTSC to meet one another, share experience and do some shopping,” Long says. “We also want to introduce the QTSC image to the corporate and social communities.”

The IT Human Resources Day (iDay) 2013 in QTSC. The software park has many

Source: By Tieu Nha – The Saigon Times Weekly