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Several of the surviving victims of the attack at the Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) School in Highlands Ranch, a Denver suburb, were initially listed in critical condition at local hospitals and in surgery, Douglas County Sheriff Tony Spurlock said at a briefing. An 18-year-old male was pronounced dead at the scene, Spurlock said a short time later. "Two individuals walked into the STEM school, got deep inside the school, and engaged students in two separate locations," Spurlock said. He told Reuters in a brief interview that the suspects, each armed with a handgun, opened fire in two separate classrooms. They were identified only as two male students of the school, one an adult and the other under age 18. The school serves students from kindergarten through 12th grade. Television images showed police vehicles gathered outside a suburban house about 2 miles from the school, where one of the suspect was believed to live. Sheriff’s deputies arrived at the school, … [Read more...] about Two students open fire at Colorado school, killing one, wounding seven

A board with a touch screen being used at a primary school in Binh Duong Province. (Source: VNA) HCM City (VNA) - The Ho Chi Minh City Department of Education and Training has sought approval from the People’s Committee for piloting a “smart schools” programme based extensively on IT use in management and communication between schools and students’ families.  Nguyen Van Hieu, the department’s deputy director, told the Tuoi Tre (Youth) newspaper that the programme is one of the steps in preparing for a smart city by 2020.  Districts 1, 2 and 12 have been chosen for the trialling, he said. The smart schools would have teachers trained to fluently use touch-screen boards and design e-learning lessons, and they would use and contribute to creating open databases for teaching, he said.  They would be encouraged to use software to help their students do virtual experiments, he said.  Contests for students would be designed to be done … [Read more...] about HCM City to pilot ’smart schools’

A fund raising event in Ho Chi Minh City on December 15 raised VND1.5 billion (over US$64,400) for children with cancer in the country. Child patients at the festival. (Photo: voh) The Sunflower Festival, the 12th of its kind, is among activities to mark the 12th year of the “Thuy’s Dream” programme held by the Vietnam Youth Union in coordination with the Tuoi Tre (Youth) newspaper. The Thuy’s Dream programme for children with cancer is named after Le Thanh Thuy – a high school girl known and admired for her long fight against bone cancer prior to her death on November 2, 2007. More than 3,000 people participated in the charity walk at the festival. For each participant, the Nutifood company donated VND50,000 to help children cancer patients. The programme also presented 160 scholarships to children who returned to school after treatment, and 1,000 gifts to children who are receiving treatment at 10 hospitals in HCM City, Da Nang, Thua Thien-Hue and … [Read more...] about Event raises VND1.5 billion for children with cancer

This year’s festival at the Ho Chi Minh City Student Cultural House in the Vietnam National University-Ho Chi Minh City’s premises in Thu Duc District is one of activities to mark the 12th anniversary of “Uoc mo cua Thuy” program in commemoration of the death of Le Thanh Thuy, a high school girl famous for her long fight against bone cancer. With the theme ‘For the Sunflower Warrior,’ the fundraising event comprised of theater named Sunflower, “ Sunflower bus” to encourage people to use public transportation, gifting 1,000 children patients and giving scholarships “ Thuy’s dream” to kids with cancer. The highlight of the year’s event was the a four-kilometer charity run with the participation of 3,000 people each helping to contribute VND50,000 to cancer kids. Especially, this year saw the presence of female footballers of SEA Games 30 namely captain Huynh Nhu, coach Kim Hong, and defender Chuong Thi Kieu. … [Read more...] about Sunflower Festival fundraises $64,000 for children with cancer

The package will provide children at Thien An school for disadvantaged children with daily lunch, health insurance, a library with 500 book copies and extracurricular activities. Besides, the children’s parents will be given vocational training to improve their families’ livelihoods. According to Vice Director of the municipal Department of Labor, Invalids and Social Affairs Tran Ngoc Son, the service package is under a project on technical support to enhance national capacity to prevent and reduce child labor in Vietnam. Lunch for children at Thien An school By giving children better care for their safety and physical and intellectual health, the model helps their parents have more time to work to improve their income, he said. The children now spend the entire day at school for study instead of leaving school at noon and working in the afternoon as in the past. As the project will end in March 2020, he called on support from the local authorities, … [Read more...] about Service package launched to prevent child labor, abuse