Two student startup projects highly appreciated at VietFuture Awards 2025

Two technology startup projects of FPT University students have won the First Prize and Potential Prize at VietFuture Awards 2025, a startup competition organized by the Vietnam Association of Software and Information Technology Services (VINASA), for innovative projects of university and college students across the country.

Student Tran Dinh Thien Tan (center) representing the TaskSpace project received first prize at the competition. Photo: HA

Accordingly, the TaskSpace academic project management application successfully won the jury and won the overall first prize. Meanwhile, ReHistoria, an application for exploring historical sites using AR technology, was also honored with the Potential award within the framework of the competition. This double achievement is not only the pride of FPTU but also shows the creativity and ability to apply technology to the lives of the young generation.

Developed by a group of students majoring in Software Engineering including Phan Quoc Thai (class K15), Tran Dinh Thien Tan (class K17) and Nguyen Gia Huy (class K17), TaskSpace was born from the practical needs of students and lecturers when they encountered difficulties in using complex management tools originally intended for businesses. The application is designed intuitively, allowing lecturers to track learning progress, evaluate group work efficiency while helping students easily create accounts, initiate projects, connect and assign tasks.

The student team created the academic project management application TaskSpace. For students, TaskSpace is designed to simplify the process of group work, from project initiation to completion. After registering, students will receive a confirmation email and can log in to the system.

On the home page, students can choose “Create a new project” or go to “Your Project” to create one, then fill in all the information about the project name, description, time, field and upload a profile picture to complete. For existing projects, students can search and send a request to join. The team leader will receive the request and can approve or reject the new member. One of the core features of TaskSpace is scientific work management. The team leader has the right to create and assign specific tasks to each member. The progress of each task is automatically updated based on completed tasks. This helps both the team and the lecturer easily track progress in a visual and transparent way.

For lecturers, TaskSpace is an effective time management and student support tool, especially in creating online meetings. Lecturers can go to the "Schedule" section to proactively create free time slots. After successful creation, the time slot will display the "Available" status, allowing students to easily schedule meetings with lecturers. When a group of students makes a reservation, the time slot will automatically change to "Booked" status. Lecturers just need to click on this time slot to view project information and then select "Join meeting" to join the online meeting. This process helps lecturers easily arrange their work schedules and manage appointments with different groups without duplication.

In addition, from the main interface, lecturers can access guided projects to track work progress, review completed work and provide timely comments and support to students. Not only stopping at ideas or sample products, TaskSpace has attracted nearly 7,000 users, of which more than 3,000 are active users with more than 500 initiated projects.

In addition to providing services toFPT University and AET educational organization, Taskspace is also an official partner of Google and Nvidia, which further strengthens the application's development potential in the future. In particular, TaskSpace was also sponsored by Google Cloud and NVIDIA with 2,000 USD through the support program for young startups. To receive this funding, TaskSpace had to pass the rigorous assessment process of the startup support program from Google Cloud.

“The team had to provide full details about the product, development plan as well as business strategy to be verified by Google. After that, Google staff will contact and work directly with us to evaluate the use of Google products and the plan to use the grant,” said student Tran Dinh Thien Tan.

Author of the ReHistoria project – Historical Footprints. Photo: HP

Along with TaskSpace, the ReHistoria project also made a strong impression at VietFuture Awards 2025 with a deeply humanistic idea: Recreating cultural and historical heritage through augmented reality (AR) technology.

Originating from the concern that cultural and historical heritage, although rich in value, is still difficult to access, especially for young people, a group of FPTU students including Do Phan Minh Quan (International Business Class K17), Nguyen Phan Thuc Anh (Multimedia Communications Class K17), Do Ngoc Linh (Digital Marketing Class K18), Luong Nguyen Anh Thu (Digital Marketing Class K17), Vo Hoang Kiet (Software Engineering Class K17), Tran Van Duc (Digital Marketing Class K17), Nguyen Huu Nghia (Digital Art Design Class K18) and Truong Minh Hoang (Software Engineering Class K17) created a breakthrough solution, the ReHistoria - Historical Footprints project.

Author of the ReHistoria project – Historical Footprints ReHistoria is a mobile application that uses augmented reality (AR) technology. Instead of taking users to a virtual world, ReHistoria brings the virtual world into their physical space. Users can admire an architectural work such as Thai Hoa Palace recreated in real size right in their living room, creating a true sense of scale and presence at the relic.

To get started, users simply select a monument from the app’s database. The phone’s camera will scan and map the room in 3D, then project an AR model of the monument as a miniature sandbox. Users can teleport to the desired location and the app will scale the model to 1:1. For structures larger than the room, the “Location Lock” feature will help users move around while maintaining their position in the virtual space.

ReHistoria’s unique ability to interact with history is highlighted by its integration of AR puzzles that require users to interact directly with artifacts to uncover the stories behind them. Instead of just listening to a one-way narrative, users will be able to “participate in the past” directly, such as reassembling a broken ceramic vase.

Before being honored at VietFuture Awards, ReHistoria had made its mark with many achievements: Third prize in the Games Craft Arena 2025 competition, a game programming competition jointly organized by FPT University and 3DArchtech; was accepted into the FINC+ pre-incubation program of DNES and received support from the Hue Monuments Conservation Center. The project also received the companionship and support of 3D Archtech Studio - a company specializing in 3D Visualization for architecture and other 3D technology applications. This enterprise will provide professional training for members and technical support to develop and complete the project.

Source: https://baotintuc.vn/giao-duc/hai-du-an-khoi-nghiep-cua-sinh-vien-duoc-danh-gia-cao-tai-vietfuture-awards-2025-20250922201256391.htm