By November 12, nearly 100 teams had registered to take part in ICPC 2008 for the Asia Region, including more than 80 Vietnamese and 11 foreign teams.

The FPT Group has pledged to grant VND100 million to Vietnamese team that qualifies for the final round to stand among the Top 10 of the 33^rd Annual Association for Computing Machinery International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC 2008) for the Asia Region.

The contest - the world’s largest computer programming competition for students - will take place at the Ho Chi Minh City University of Technology from November 22-23.

Any Vietnamese team that ranks among the Top 40 will receive a prize of VND50 million provided by the FPT Group.

The group will also present 4 computers worth VND7 million each to four winners in the regional contest and a laptop worth VND20 million to the winner of the 17^th Vietnamese information technology (IT) students’ competition, which will be organised by the Vietnam IT Association to take place concurrently with the ICPC Asia regional contest.