Toyota launches first national awards ceremony

During the 2015-16 school year, organisers selected 124 outstanding artworks from nearly 600,000 paintings submitted by primary students nationwide. Awards include 10 first, 10 second, 34 third, and 70 consolation prizes, worth VND218 million (US$9,700) in total.

Organisers will now select nine of the 124 best artworks to compete in an international contest in Japan.

The nine top prizewinners will be invited to visit Japan in August.

More than 2.3 milllion artworks had been sent to organisers by Vietnamese primary children since Toyota’s Dream Car Contest launched five years ago.