Hawkins Pham is the head of advisory for Indochina Capital, a Vietnam-based financial services firm. He oversees the transactional advisory team with experience covering a broad range of sectors, including education, IT, FMCG, energy, pharmaceutical, and agribusinesses. He is passionate about STEM education and Vietnam’s rapidly developing IT industry.
Arizona State University
Computer Science in Vietnam: Counting Down to the Hour of Code
Events surrounding this week's Hour of Code coincide with Computer Science Education week. Vietnam will have 26 different hosts, ranging from universities and high schools to private corporations. However, only two of the participating high schools are local schools under the Department of Education. The remaining are international or private schools. But don’t be too concerned about the lack of participation from public secondary schools. In fact, the rest of the world is really only catching up to Vietnam, whose public schools are known for introducing computer science into the curriculum at a very early age.
