4th season Digital Race prizes starts with record-breaking prizes

In order to encourage students to develop their motivation to study new technologies, Digital Race’s organizers just announced a series of valuable scholarships, increasing the total amount of prize to over VND5.3 billion.

In particular, all participants of the preliminary round receive scholarships for 1 out of 4 subjects of: Becoming a Digital Citizen, Building your first website, Mastering your computer, and Creating your first program (with Javascript).

26 individuals with the most excellent performance during the preliminaries and 4 members from the winning team will get a full grant in 1 out of 3 courses on Automative/Machine Learning/Data Science, each valued at VND22 million per course. All courses are sponsored by the Gold Sponsor – FUNiX Online University.

The Digital Race – an international competition on programming self-driving care – is a playground for Vietnamese students to attain knowledge and compete with international friends, as well as prepare themselves for the digital revolution. Via the competition, FPT hopes to spread the trend of creative researching and inspire youths with the experience and application of new technologies.

The champion of Digital Race season 3 – Military Technical Academy had been awarded over VND 1.2 billion in prizes.

The 2019-2020 Digital Race is hosted in collaboration of FPT and VTV and sponsored by the Ministry of Science and Technology. Compared to the previous seasons, this year’s Digital Race will be much more challenging with more complex technologies, with higher value prizes.

The 4th season also welcomes 2 international competing spots with teams from various different countries, before selecting the leading top 2 to compete in the finals with 8 most excellent team from Vietnamese University. At the competition, teams will need to utilize image processing technologies, machine learning, deep learning, and so on to program their cars to find the shortest path and travel along with any kind of route in simulation. The car prototypes will be 1/7 in size compared with real cars, with maximum speed of 50 km/h.

Teams will have the chance of winning over 5.3 billion VND in prize, including special technology awards like AI Doctor Scholarship, full grants in subjects of Becoming a Digital Citizen, Building your first website, Mastering your computer, and Creating your first program (with Javascript), courses in Automotive/Machine Learning/Data Science, technology experience trip in the USA, as well as English scholarships. The Top 4 teams will also receive an internship and the chance to solve the newest technology problems at FPT.

Teams will have the chance of winning over 5.3 billion VND in prize, including special technology awards like AI Doctor Scholarship, full grants in subjects of Becoming a Digital Citizen, Building your first website, Mastering your computer, and Creating your first program (with Javascript), courses in Automotive/Machine Learning/Data Science, technology experience trip in the USA, as well as English scholarships. The Top 4 teams will also receive an internship and the chance to solve the newest technology problems at FPT.