The Vietnamese delegation won three gold, five silver and three bronze medals at the 2012 International Youth Invention Exhibition (IYIE), which was held in Taiwan from February 9-13, says the Vietnam National University of Science.

The two gold medals went to Ta Ngoc Linh from the VNU High School for Gifted Students for the Phone Directory and Mini Calculator Softwares and another one to Le Hoang Anh from Danang University of Education for the Fingerprinting Identification System.

This year’s IYIE, which was co-organised by Taiwan’s Far Eastern University and the World Invention Intellectual Property Association, was attended by hundreds of pupils from countries and territories around the globe.

This was the first time Vietnam participated in such an exhibition.