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Intel Products Vietnam (IPV), and the Office of Global Outreach and Extended Education (GOEE) at Arizona State University, organized a Smart City Executive Workshop for 10 delegates from the HCMC People’s Committee on April 24-28, 2017. During the Smart City Executive Workshop, ASU leadership, researchers and scientists proposed models to help define and design projects to further support the 2016-2020 breakthrough programs in the Ho Chi Minh City Smart City Plan.

Building University-Industry Learning and Development through Innovation and Technology, or BUILD-IT, a USAID-sponsored ASU initiative to link governments, academia and industry together to create tomorrow’s tech-based workforce, recently held a two-day training session for Industrial University of Ho Chi Minh City (IUH) on teaching with learning management systems. The training took place on June 29-30, 2017.

From July 24-28, 2017, BUILD-IT and Oracle Academy jointly organized a five-day intensive train-the-trainer course in Java Foundations for BUIILD-IT academic partners. The training was led by Oracle Academy instructor Jian Li and drew 21 professors from six institutes and introduced faculty to project-based learning techniques in teaching foundational Java courses.

One of the challenges of higher education in Vietnam is the gap between theoretical knowledge and practical knowledge taught in schools. Graduates are not adequately equipped with skills to apply concepts or to translate knowledge into practice. To help address this challenge, on May 29, 2017, the BUILD-IT Project-Based Learning Models Workshop was conducted in partnership with National Instruments in Ho Chi Minh City.

The University of Đà Nẵng in collaboration with Fablab (fabrication laboratory) Đà Nẵng, the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and Arizona State University (ASU) officially launched a Maker Innovation Space in the central city on August 11.

Launched on June 8, the Maker Innovation Space is part of the Building University-Industry Learning and Develop through Innovation and Technology program known as BUILD-IT. This $10.8 million project, funded by the United States Agency for International Development, brings academia, industry and government together to invest in a dynamic ecosystem for STEM innovation in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.

Let me start by setting the scene. 42 fellows. Ten ASEAN countries. Five weeks. Mix that with a robust program schedule, community service projects, road trips and an affinity for karaoke, and you get the ASU YSEALI program.

From February 9–12, 2017, Arizona State University successfully hosted the 13th Annual Vietnam Education Foundation Fellows and Scholar Conference. The Vietnam Education Foundation (VEF) is an independent U.S. Federal Government agency created with the mission of strengthening the U.S.-Vietnam bilateral relationship through educational exchanges in the fields of science, technology, engineering, mathematics and medicine (STEMM).