Monday, June 22nd, 2020 (9:00 AM – 12:30 PM)
Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam – The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) Building University-Industry Learning and Development through Innovation and Technology (BUILD-IT) Alliance, Arizona State University (ASU) and the Dow Vietnam STEM Program launched the Engineering Projects in Community Service (EPICS) program in Vietnam in January 2018. The EPICS program is an internationally recognized multi-disciplinary social entrepreneurship challenge for STEM student teams to collaboratively brainstorm, design, prototype, and test their engineering-based solutions to local challenges.
Today, USAID BUILD-IT and the Dow Vietnam STEM Program hosted their 2nd annual investor-style pitch competition, Maker to Entrepreneur: Venture Demo Day, for over 40 engineering students and guests from across Vietnam. Young engineers gathered at the American Center in Ho Chi Minh City to compete for a total of $1,000 in start-up funding.
The nine competing teams developed their innovative projects during the 2019 EPICS program. Carrying their innovations onto the Maker to Entrepreneur program, the teams advanced their EPICS projects into viable products and shared their early market traction at Venture Demo Day. The students demonstrated how engineers can learn to use market forces to prove that their early-stage products have market demand. Speaking to the students, U.S. Ambassador to Vietnam Daniel J. Kritenbrink shared, “There is a close connection between being an engineer and being an entrepreneur. Success in Fourth Industrial Revolution industries comes from a combination of those two skill sets. It is entrepreneurship that enables the world to benefit from an engineer’s innovations.”
US Ambassador to Vietnam with Dow Vietnam team - University Students at Maker to Entrepreneur Event
During Venture Demo Day a panel of industry judges from Dow Vietnam and Saigon Hi-Tech Park scored the students on their product’s market demand. The judges were impressed by the customer feedback, evidence of demand, and perseverance demonstrated by the students in completing a majority of the program virtually.
For the third consecutive year, USAID BUILD-IT, Dow Vietnam, and Saigon Hi-Tech Park have joined forces to bring industry-linked applied projects in innovation, entrepreneurship, and research to undergraduates across Vietnam. Dow Vietnam alone has contributed over $100,000 to provide more than 700 opportunities to students to gain the confidence and capacity to lead engineering and social innovations in their communities. Judging each teams’ social impact, Mr. Ekkasit Lakkananithiphan, Dow Vietnam’s General Director shared, “As an organization committed to solving global challenges, we are proud to encourage Vietnamese students to solve their local community’s challenges by creating business opportunities. By encouraging the spirit of entrepreneurship, our students maximize their value creation and can pursue further start-up investments.”
Mr. Ekkasit Lakkananithiphan - General Director of Dow Vietnam congratulated Team Da Nang University on the 1st Prize Winning
The USAID BUILD-IT Alliance is a public-private partnership founded to support world-class engineering programs for work-ready graduates in Vietnam. Implemented by Arizona State University, the Alliance has over 16 industry partners and 11 Vietnamese university partners. BUILD-IT has leveraged over $6 million dollars in industry contributions to support its university partners to revamp their curricula, adopt new learning technologies and projects, further develop their teaching and leadership capacity, and achieve international accreditation. These transformations assure that Vietnamese graduates develop both the technical and soft skills needed to drive Vietnam’s growth for decades to come.
As a part of community activities towards sustainable development goals, on the morning of 16th June 2020, INSEE Vietnam co-organized the ground-breaking ceremony to build Kien Binh 2 School for more than 700 pupils in Kien Binh Commune, Kien Luong District, Kien Giang Province.
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MIDLAND, Mich. – June 17, 2020 – Dow (NYSE: DOW) today announced aggressive new commitments to address both climate change and plastic waste on its path toward becoming the most innovative, customer-centric, inclusive, and sustainable materials science company in the world. The Company also issued its 2019 Sustainability Report for the 17th consecutive year, outlining progress and results aligned to its 2025 Sustainability Goals.
To celebrate the World Environment Day 2020, Dow Vietnam Team joined hands with our plastics road partner Deep C to organise #PullingOurWeight 2020 program in Hai Phong City. More than 200 volunteers from Dow Vietnam Team, Dow customers, local waste collector, Deep C and its tenants participated in this meaningful clean-up activity. Also, sending 36 volunteers to the clean-up event, Dow’s P&SP customer VIPACO donated more than 500 trash bags for waste collection.
Quang Ninh, 12 June 2020, AES Mong Duong announced its Back to School Support CSR program, which will benefit 1,500 students at the Mong Duong High School and Nguyen Trai Elementary School in Cam Pha city, Quang Ninh province, Vietnam. The support, worth nearly US$17,000 in total, includes the renovation of lighting systems and improvement of hygiene conditions. The package also includes a donation of digital equipment which will support the digital learning efforts of local teachers and students.
Hanoi, Vietnam, Monday, June 01, 2020, Dow Chemical Vietnam LLC (Dow Vietnam) donated the necessary medical supplies to the National Hospital for Tropical Diseases, including: 1,000 pieces of 3M medical masks and 60 four-liter cans of hand sanitizers, which are worth over VND 100 million. This grant project was implemented by the Project Office of the Resources Exchange International Organization (REI) in Vietnam through the connection of the People's Aid Coordinating Committee (PACCOM) with Dow Vietnam. This is a meaningful program, with the desire to support the frontline hospitals to prevent and fight against Covid-19, helping the community health resilience and to join hands with the whole country efforts to effectively prevent and control Covid-19.
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MIDLAND, Mich. - March 23, 2020 - Dow (NYSE: DOW) today announced a commitment of $3 million to help fund COVID-19 relief efforts with donations going towards global relief organizations, as well as non-profits in communities where Dow operates. In addition, the Company announced it has begun producing hand sanitizer at its manufacturing site in Stade, Germany, and is repurposing an existing facility to produce hand sanitizer in the U.S., as well.
A big recognition of Dow's continued efforts in Vietnam for economic growth & sustainable community.
MIDLAND, Mich. – Dec. 4, 2019 – Dow and WE are proud to team up and take the third-annual WE Are Innovators Campaign across the U.S. and expand across the globe.
Hanoi, 17th November 2019 - The stake holders of the Hanoi Waste to Energy pilot project held a ground breaking ceremony on Sunday, November 17, 2019 at Xuan Son Landfill in Son Tay and Ba Vi District to mark the effective starting of the site work.
Hanoi, Vietnam - October 30th, 2019 - Dow Vietnam received the Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Recognition Award from the American Chamber of Commerce in Hanoi (AmCham) for its corporate sustainability initiatives in Vietnam, marking the fifth consecutive year that Dow has been named in the winner list. This prestigious award is a recognition of a reputable organization for Dow's best practice programs in Vietnam to help the local community address the challenges, promote sustainable development and protect the environment.
