The 9th Star Awards

CONTESTANTS

50,962

UNIVERSITIES

150

CLUSTERS

6

TOTAL PRIZES

400

million VND

CHAMPION

Team DNA

Da Nang Ambassadors

HOST

Đa Nang

University

Star Awards contest is organized a view to creating an English playground for university students across the country and increasing their awareness about the importance of a foreign language in studying and the future career.

In 2015, for the first time ever, Star Awards was organized on a national scale with three main university clusters. Through time, the contest has affirmed its prestige and expanded its scale. Since 2017, Star Awards has officially become an academic contest, co-organized by 6 university clusters all over the country, including Thai Nguyen, Ha Noi, Hue, Da Nang, Ho Chi Minh City and Can Tho. Wilmar CLV is honored to be the sponsor of the contest under the sponsorship of Simply Rice-Bran Oil.

Carrying on the success of the 9th contest with the participation of more than 50,000 contestants from 150 colleges and universities all over the country, the 10th Star Awards will be hosted by Hue University from March to May 2021. Under the theme of CULTURE – HERITAGE – INTEGRATION, this year’s contest aims to bring so much more interesting experience for the contestants through three rounds – Starship, Starlight and Star Union.

Through the objectives of the contest, we would like to urge students to persistently broaden knowledge, harness soft skills, especially presentation and English skills, to well prepare for the real working environment before graduation. With the confidence and youth spirit, it is certain that the students – the “future owners” of the country – will always “shine” in every situation.

In 2015, for the first time ever, Star Awards was organised on a national scale with three main university clusters. Through time, the contest has affirmed its prestige and expanded the scale. Since 2017, Star Awards has officially become an academic contest, co-organised by 6 university clusters all over the country, including Thai Nguyen, Ha Noi, Hue, Da Nang, Ho Chi Minh City and Can Tho. Wilmar CLV is honoured to be the sponsor of the contest under the sponsorship of Simply Rice-bran Oil.

1. Co-organisers

● Hue University (Host of Star Awards 2021)

● Vietnam National University, Hanoi

● Vietnam National University Ho Chi Minh City 

● The University of Da Nang

● Thai Nguyen University

● Can Tho University

2. Sponsor

Wilmar International Limited, founded in 1991 and headquartered in Singapore, is today Asia’s leading agribusiness group. Wilmar International is ranked amongst the largest listed companies by market capitalization on the Singapore Exchange. At the core of Wilmar’s strategy is an integrated agribusiness model that has over 500 manufacturing plants and an extensive distribution network covering China, India, Indonesia and 50 other countries. The Group has a multinational workforce of about 90,000 people.

Presented in Vietnam from 1998, Wilmar CLV (Cambodia – Laos – Vietnam) is proud to be a major group that specializes in Foodstuff, Feed Ingredients, Bio Ingredients and Distribution in the region. Today, we have successfully laid a strong foundation of Wilmar CLV in the region with the presence of 8 companies, 4 offices, 10 factories and over 2,300 employees. Currently, 7 of our 10 production facilities in Vietnam, in addition to supplying industrial users, are also manufacturers of consumer products, i.e. Oils & Fats, Flour, Rice, Grains Value-added Processing products (pre-mixes, egg noodles, macaroni) as well as Sauces & Condiments.

Our mission is to increase the happiness of consumers and customers via delivering world-class quality essential products cost efficiently.

1. Online Test Round – Starship

    • Multiple-choice Test (60%): Contestant creates an account on the website starawards.vn to do the test. Each contestant has 3 official attempts for multiple-choice tests and unlimited turns for mock tests. There are 30 questions to answer in 30 minutes.  The attempt with the highest score and the shortest time will be used for ranking.
    • Writing Test (40%): Contestant chooses one of the given topics to write an essay with at least 300 words. Each contestant can submit the writing once only.
    • Speaking Test: From the total scores of multiple-choice and writing tests, the Cluster Organization Committees will shortlist the best contestants to test on English communication skills and select top 30 to the next round.

2. Cluster Final Round – Starlight

Top 30 contestants in each cluster will be divided into 10 different groups to discuss the content of a given topic about the culture, heritage, integration…Then each team will make a presentation before the Cluster Panel of Judges. The team with the best performance in each cluster will enter the next round – the National Final.

3. National Final Round – Star Union

All teams that enter the National Final Round will take the general knowledge test and participate in the debate round in English with 2 teams per round. Besides, the teams can take part in many training activities, market tours and have a chance to visit famous tourist attractions in Hue.

1. Online Test Round – Starship

❖ Objectives

Create an opportunity for students to learn more about cultural, heritage, and integration of the country as well as enhance their soft skills and communication skills in English.

❖ Format: Online tests on the website www.starawards.vn

The Online Test Round – Starship is simultaneously taken place at 6 clusters nationwide with the format of online testing on computers or mobile devices. When signing up accounts on the website, contestants are required to provide their factual personal information for the Organization Committee to verify and contact if necessary. After finishing the registration, each contestant will be provided with one account to do the test. There are 3 parts in the Online Test Round:

● Part 1: Multiple-choice test (60% of total score)

Each contestant has 3 attempts to do the test, of which the one with the best result will be used for assessment if the contestant is qualified to enter the next round. The contestant will access the Internet and do the online test with 30 questions in 30 minutes. Weekly, Top 10 contestants with the highest scores in each cluster will win weekly prizes.

● Part 2: Writing test (40% of total score)

The contestant picks one of the three below topics to do the writing test:

Topic 1: How do you think about the role of students in preserving Vietnam’s heritage?

Topic 2: How could you as a student contribute to the preservation of Vietnam’s national traditional culture?

Topic 3: Rice bran oil is an “amazing” product which inherits the tale of Viet Nam’s brown rice. Base on the benefits, production, domestic consumption, global needs… of rice bran oil, what are your recommendations/ suggestions to spread the tale of “amazing” rice bran oil and make it well penetrated into the global markets?

The essay should be written in English at least 300 words and submitted directly on the website. Each contestant can submit the writing test only once during the contest.

● Part 3: Speaking test

From the total scores of multiple-choice and writing test, the Cluster Panel of Judges will shortlist the contestants of highest scores to enter the Speaking test which examines English communication skills. After the Speaking test, the Panel of Judges will select the Top 30 contestants to the Cluster Final Round.

2. Cluster Final Round – Starlight

❖ Objectives

Each cluster must choose the Top 30 contestants for its final round, who are then divided into 10 groups of 3, of which only one team with the most outstanding idea shall be selected to the National Final Round.

❖ Format

Before the Cluster Final Round takes place, the Top 30 contestants will be randomly divided into 10 groups of 3. Each team will discuss and come up with an idea about an given topic culture, heritage and integration (hereinafter referred to as “idea”) in culture, heritage and integration. The Cluster Final Round consists of 3 following parts:

● Part 1: Idea presentation (60% of total score)

The teams present their ideas to the Panel of Judges within 10 minutes, including but not restricted to the following contents:

○ Brief introduction about the topic.

○ Detailed description of the team’s hometown, ending with the message given by the Organizing Committee.

○ Incorporation of pictures, movies, costumes, props and so on (if available) to clearly convey the message of the presentation.

○ Participation of all team members during the presentation.

● Part 2: Defence against the Panel of Judges: (40% of total score)

After the presentation of each group, the Panel of Judges will raise questions. The task of the team is to answer questions to clarify and convince the Panel of Judge about the content of their team’s topic. The Panel of Judges will evaluate the feasibility of the idea on the basis of the answers. The time limit for this part is 5 minutes.

English is the official language in the Cluster Final Round. The team with the highest score from all three parts will be the cluster’s representative to compete for the National Final Round taking place in Hue. The Panel of Judges will give advice to improve the team’s idea.

                     ● Part 3: Sharing

The teams will use the products prepared in the “Idea presentation” round to send to the Organizers. The product will be posted on the original Fanpage of the contest. The team with the highest number of votes will win the awards from the Organizers.

3. National Final Round – Star Union

The National Final Round will be held in Hue City and hosted by the Hue University. This round includes the following activities:

3.1. Project Consultancy and Training Activities

Before the day of the National Final Round, the teams will get advice from the Panel of Judges to finalize their projects and attend training courses on presentation and debate in English as well as other skills.

3.2. The National Final Round

❖ Objectives:

To provide the student with an opportunity to look into a problem under several perspectives, understand it deeply and apply that skill to develop themselves in many fields. The National Final Round will be the contest among 6 teams from 6 clusters.

❖ Format:

Top 6 teams representing 6 clusters to join the National Final Round will go through these following parts:

● Part 1: Warming up

The teams take turns to choose one of the warming-up question packs. Within 2 minutes, one member represents the team to answer a maximum of 10 questions in English, related to many life aspects: society, culture, heritage, integration and so forth. For each correct answer, the team gets 5 points. For the incorrect answer, there’s no minus point.

The maximum score for this part is 50 points.

● Part 2: Debate

Six teams are divided into three groups with two teams per group.

Each debate includes:
○ The Support team, consisting of three people, is referred to Team A.
○ The Opposition team, consisting of three people, is referred to Team B.

One week before the official contest, two contestants representing two teams will randomly select their team’s main topic from two given topics. The main topic of Team A will be the sub-topic of Team B and vice versa. In this round, each team will have to support the main topic and debate against the sub-topic. The teams are allowed to freely research and prepare for their topics for seven days.

The debate consists of two main parts intertwined:
○ The speaking part of the members of each team.
○ The debate between the representatives of each team.

The official language in the National Final Round is English. From the total score of the three parts, the Panel of Judges will choose 1 first prize, 1 second prize, 1 third prize and 3 consolation prizes.

3.3. Experiencing the market tour

After the contest, all teams will have practical experience with a market tour, paying a visit to the distribution channels of Wilmar CLV.

3.4. Experiencing the local tourism

Apart from the market tour, the teams will pay a visit to many tourist attractions in Hue.

1. Online Test Round – Starship

    • Weekly, the Top 10 contestants in each cluster with the highest scores and shortest times in multiple-choice tests will be rewarded with a gift bag from Wilmar CLV. Additionally, the Top 5 will also be awarded VND 300,000 each.
    • Besides, the Top 5 best essays on the topic about rice-bran oil in each cluster will win a prize from the sponsor, which is equivalent to 1 year of using Simply Rice-bran Oil each.

2. Cluster Final Round – Starlight

The prizes in each Cluster Final Round include:

    • 01 first prize: VND 10,000,000 + gift bag from Wilmar CLV
    • 01 second prize: VND 5,000,000 + gift bag from Wilmar CLV
    • 01 third prize: VND 2,000,000 + gift bag from Wilmar CLV
    • 07 consolation prizes: VND 1,000,000 + gift bag from Wilmar CLV

3. National Final Round – Star Union

    • 01 first prize: VND 40,000,000 + trophy + flowers + gift bag from Wilmar CLV
    • 01 second prize: VND 20,000,000 + flowers + gift bag from Wilmar CLV
    • 01 third prize: VND 15,000,000 + flowers + gift bag from Wilmar CLV
    • 03 consolation prizes: VND 5,000,000+ flowers + gift bag from Wilmar CLV
    • 01 prize for the cluster with the most voted introduction video by contestants: VND 4,000,000 + flowers + gift bag from Wilmar CLV
    • The contestants winning the first/ second/ third prize will have chances to get an internship at Wilmar CLV.

4. Prizes for “Viet Nam Heart” Contest

National prize: 01 return flight ticket + gift bag from Wilmar CLV

The prizes in each Cluster Final Round include:

    • 01 first prize: VND 2,000,000+ 1 year of using Simply Rice-bran Oil free
    • 01 second prize: VND 1,000,000 + 1 cotton of Simply Rice-bran Oil
    • 01 third prize: VND 500,000 + 1 cotton of Simply Rice-bran Oil
    • 10 consolation prizes: 1 cotton of Simply Rice-bran Oil

Step 1: Access to the contest website – starawards.vn – then click “TEST NOW” button to do the test or to create an account

Step 2: Fill in the registration form as required and create an account

Step 3: Read the contest’s rules thoroughly. Contestants can choose to do the mock test to get used to the type of the questions and the format of the test

Step 4: Click “Multiple-choice Test” to do the “Multiple-choice Test” (maximum 3 attempts)

Step 5: Click “Submit” to finish the test and view the multiple-choice test results. Then continue with the Writing Test (1 attempt only).

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