Tenth grader Nguyen Thanh of Nguyen Tat Thanh High School in Hanoi beat 200,000 rivals from 20 nations worldwide to win the prize at the contest between July 28-31.
During the ACAWC 2019 final round, contestants competed in three design categories, including making a design for an Instagram post, a banner for an email and a poster themed "Giving Tuesday," often stylized as #GivingTuesday for the purposes of hashtag activism, referring to the Tuesday after U.S. Thanksgiving in the U.S.
Since its inauguration in November 2012, Giving Tuesday has become a global movement to create an international day of charitable giving at the beginning of the Christmas and holiday season.
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Nguyen Thanh’s name is announced at the ACAWC 2019, and his final project that won him the People’s Choice award. Photo courtersy of ACAWC. |
The first, second and third prizes were won by contestants from Macau, Peru and Sweden. They were chosen by a panel of judges and received respective cash prizes of $7,000, $3,500 and $1,500.
Vietnam sent three representatives this year, the second time it has participated in this contest.
The other two are college students. Along with Thanh, they were chosen from a national contest organized earlier this year by Vietnam’s Ho Chi Minh Communist Youth Union, the Ministry of Labor, Invalids and Social Affairs and IIG, an English-teaching organization working in Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia and Myanmar.
Launched in 2013, ACAWC is a global competition that identifies the next generation of design professionals using Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, and Adobe InDesign.
Organized by U.S.-based Certiport, a provider of learning curriculum, practice tests, and performance-based information-technology certification exams that accelerate academic and career opportunities for learners, the award is held annually for students aged between 13 and 22 around the world.