Hi, my name is Hanh Nguyen

I’ve always been curious about what lies beneath the surface—the things we cannot see, the questions we cannot easily answer, and the connections waiting to be discovered. I’m still exploring, still questioning, and slowly becoming the person I’m meant to be.

Good morning, good afternoon, good evening, whenever you are here. This is Nguyen Le Hanh Nguyen, a twelfth-grade student from Da Nang, Viet Nam. Growing up in the coastal plains of Central Vietnam, I have always been fascinated by the world beyond what first meets the eye. I’m the kind of person who asks one question and somehow ends up with five more. I value an open mind, embrace new perspectives, and adapt well to different experiences. And that mindset has shaped my fascination with biochemistry, where seemingly invisible reactions can reveal something much greater. I am still learning, still growing, and always becoming someone a little more capable than I was yesterday. This blog is a small window into that journey – a place to share what I learn, what I wonder about, and who I am becoming along the way.

Under the waterline

My first ideas rarely started on paper. They began with questions that refused to leave me. After each storm in Lào Cai, I would watch how people rebuilt their homes with the same materials, only to see them washed away again…

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Echoes

Art has always been the way I make sense of what words cannot explain. After every storm, when the noise faded and the mud dried, I would sketch what remained, broken bridges, hands passing food, children laughing beside flooded fields…

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Waves of change

Working with my community began as small acts, organizing school fundraisers, packing relief supplies, visiting flood-affected families.

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Achievement

My journey began with a small question at the market: how can technology tell whether food is safe to eat? That curiosity led to my research project, “Applying AI Image Recognition Technology to Determine the Freshness of Pork,” which won Third Prize at the 2024 Provincial Science and Engineering Fair…

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