Three teenagers and a 20-year-old man were shot and wounded on Friday outside a Portland, Oregon, alternative high school when a gunman thought to have gang ties opened fire following a dispute, police said. The suspect, believed to be in his early teens or early 20s, fled the scene with two other males following the shooting less than a block from Rosemary Anderson High School and all three remained at large several hours later, said Pete Simpson of the Portland Police Bureau A 16-year-old girl who was struck by the gunfire shortly after noon outside the school in north Portland was rushed to a local hospital, where she was listed in critical condition, Simpson said. A 17-year-old boy and 20-year-old man were in serious condition at the same hospital and a 19-year-old female was treated and released after being grazed in the foot by a bullet. Simpson said all of the victims were affiliated in some way with Rosemary Anderson and ran to the school following the shooting, … [Read more...] about Three teens, man shot outside Portland, Oregon, high school
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Principal sent into mountains for literally turning Jr. High School into gold mine
Dan Tri A junior high school principal in the north-central province of Nghe An has been disciplined for turning the yard into an illegal gold mine during summer vacation. Nguyen Ngoc Tuan, principal of the Yen Tinh Junior High School in the province's Tuong Duong District, was officially rebuked and reassigned to a remote mountainous school, District People's Committee Chairman Trinh Minh Chau announced on Monday. In late July, district authorities discovered that nearly the entire schoolyard had been excavated. "While digging the well, we found gold ore and tried to expand our operation to find gold," Tuan said. However, the district Natural Resources and Environment Agency found he actually hired these workers to dig for gold from the beginning. The district is home to a remarkable gold reserve. Last year, a man found 2.1 kg of raw gold in the bed of a stream. The school drafted a plan to dig the well in April; Tuan enlisted his team of informal prospectors to excavate the … [Read more...] about Principal sent into mountains for literally turning Jr. High School into gold mine
Meet Vietnamese Googler who scored zero on first high school computer test
Pham Tuan Hung did not have a computer and had little knowledge of informatics when he entered high school 14 years ago, but the Hai Phong resident ended up being part of a company all software engineers would die for: Google Inc. Hung, born in 1986 in the northern city 100km east of Hanoi, studied in the class specialized in informatics at Tran Phu High School for the Gifted, even though the subject was totally new to him. It is thus no surprise when his first-ever zero was earned from his first informatics test in high school. Hung was so obsessed by the pathetic score that he had thought he could not pursue information technology. However, through what his teachers and friends described as "intense but silent preparation and painstaking effort," Hung took everyone from surprise to surprise with a long line of remarkable achievements in the subject on which he used to hardly earn a mark. Pham Tuan Hung was on the school’s informatics team to compete at … [Read more...] about Meet Vietnamese Googler who scored zero on first high school computer test
Introducing a Vietnam high school student who craves astronomy
With a passion for astronomy from a very young age, Dang Hoang San from the central city of Hue has created telescopes himself as well as established a club of people who love the branch of science. The 10th grader from Quoc Hoc – Hue High School for the Gifted is now the chairman of the Hue Astronomy Club which gathers every weekend to share their love of the sky. "I was frozen" In 7th grade, San started studying how to make a microscope and achieved his first victory when he successfully created one which worked like microscopes at his school. After the debut, San nurtured his passion for science and then used the Internet as his source of knowledge of physics and astronomy. Since he wanted to share what he knew with people, San established the Hue Astronomy Club with 10 initial members at the beginning of 2013. To save money for the club by not buying expensive telescopes, the young man decided to make them by himself and spent around half a year researching … [Read more...] about Introducing a Vietnam high school student who craves astronomy
Mountainous high school pupils manufactured a free electricity water pump
The first prize of the innovative science competition for nationwide high school pupils in 2015 was honored, suddenly happy for 2 mountainous pupils in Hoa Binh province. Mr. Pham Dinh Man (right) guided pupil Nguyen Tuan Hung to research practically. Photo: Man Pham Two pupils class 11 found around the highland villages (as Doc Lap commune, Ky Son district) often have small stream flowing at the foot of the hill, flow and flow speed may change according to seasons, but in general these maintained throughout the year. "Therefore, they ask why they don’t use the flow energy of the stream to bring water up to serve the people?" - Nguyen Tuan Hung shared. Undergoing over 8 months (6-2014 to 1-2015) Hung and Vu studied, observed to take advantage of the existing equipments (consisting of normal bicycle motion, high pressure water pumps) and manufacture devices to bring water up by using water power. The equipment also solves the initial problem posed in the project - bring water … [Read more...] about Mountainous high school pupils manufactured a free electricity water pump