1. Potential Candidates:
- Any student from high school, university, college or vocational school within Ho Chi Minh City
2. Content of Contest:
Round 1: Head start (from 24 August – 24 May)
- Online English quiz (multiple choice questions regarding IQ, general knowledge on English, news, current affairs, literature, and society) will be hosted for all candidates among whom only 48 best candidates can enter the next round.
Round 2: The leap (on 3 June)
- For the first time in BUH, via the English format of the famous Road-to-Olympia contest, candidates will compete with each other to answer questions on general knowledge of global integration, culture, society, sports, economy, geography, literature and arts to be the top twelve candidates entering Round 3.
Round 3: Navigation (on 10 June)
- Twelve candidates will be randomly organized into four groups of three to present on their own topic in English. Only two best team can get into the finale.
Round 4: Reverberation (gala night on 17 June )
- There are two main round in the finale event: Battle cry and Reverberation.
4.1. Battle cry: Basing on the project presented in round 3, in English, two finalist teams will now demonstrate their understanding on a further topic relating to a particular socio-economic issue. The better team will enter the last round (4.2).
4.2. Reverberation: Three members of the team will debate for their project in front of a panel of appraisal members and judges in order to be appointed as the leader of the
3. REGISTRATION
Registration online at http://bit.ly/LTWT_2017 from 20.30 24 April 2017 to 22.00 24 May 2017
Registration fee: 20.000 VND ( using phone card (scratch card) of 20000-VND denomination )
Registration offline: from 7.00 08 May 2017 to 17.30 24 May 2017
Candidates can register directly at representative stalls all over universities, colleges and high schools as follows
08 May – 24 May: Banking University Ho Chi Minh City
08 May – 09 May: University of Information Technology
10May – 12 May: University of Economics and Law
15 May – 16May: Ho Chi Minh City University of Technology and Education
17/May – 19 May: University of Social Sciences and Humanities
22 May – 24 May : International University
Registration fee: 15.000 VND per candidate.
4. PRIZE ASSETS: total value over 160 million VND
- First Prize: 50.600.000 VND
+ Cash: 1.500.000 VND
+ Full scholarship - English Town: 25.000.000 VND
+ Three full scholarship - Marcus English Academy: 12.600.000 VND
+ Scholarship on practical skills – BMG: 10.000.000 VND
+ 50% scholarship - Summoner’s English: 1.500.000 VND worth
- Second Prize: 16.800.000 VND
+ Cash: 1.000.000 VND
+ Three slots of 75% scholarship - Marcus English Academy: 9.300.000 VND worth
+ Scholarship on practical skills – BMG: 5.000.000 VND
+ 50% scholarship - Summoner’s English: 1.500.000 VND worth
- Third Prize: 11.300.000 VND
+ Cash: 500.000 VND
+ Three slots of 50% scholarship - Marcus English Academy: 6.300.000 VND worth
+ Scholarship on practical skills – BMG: 3.000.000 VND
+ 50% scholarship - Summoner’s English: 1.500.000 VND worth
- Prize for the most popular Team: 6.800.000 VND
+ Cash: 500.000 VND
+ Three slots of 50% scholarship - Marcus English Academy: 6.300.000 VND worth
Besides, the top 24 candidates in Round 2 will also receive a full scholarship on soft skills worth 500.000 VND. Top 100 will receive the certificate for “Students with Five Merits” – Good Integration
5. NOTES:
When registering for the contest, each candidate will receive a separate code from the Organization Committee for logging in the website with personal identity to start the test. One candidate can take multiple tries to do the test. Candidates can register for the online code using the phone card via banking service.
6. DETAILED CONTACT:
- Fanpage: www.facebook.com/stepbuh/
- Representative Stalls at BUH và other partnership universities
- Hotline: 01676 116 547 (Ms An) or 01632 589 582 (Ms Tham).
- Email: stepclub.buh@gmail.com
SPONSORSHIP:
- Diamond sponsors: Marcus English Academy and English Town.
- Bronze sponsors: BMG, EBIV, Summoner English center
- Printing sponsor: Thế Giới In Ấn