Audi Volkswagen Launches 'Tumoroad School' Online Classes for Future Car Talent Development

[Asia Economy Reporter Suyeon Woo] Audi Volkswagen Korea announced on the 27th that it has started online classes for 'Tumo Road School,' a future mobility education project for middle school students under the free semester system.

Due to the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19), Audi Volkswagen Korea has completely revised the curriculum from the existing offline class format to online classes.

Tumo Road School is a problem-solving convergence education program that uses automobiles to learn and implement future society technologies under the themes of connectivity, autonomous driving, sharing, and electrification in future mobility. It aims to cultivate the 4Cs (critical thinking, communication skills, collaboration skills, creativity), which are core competencies required for future talents.

Started in March last year by Audi Volkswagen Korea targeting 331 middle school students from 13 schools in 5 districts of Seoul, Tumo Road School expanded nationwide thanks to the positive response from students, parents, and teachers. In 2019 alone, a total of 2,233 students participated.

In the first semester of this year, more than 20 middle schools in 7 districts of Seoul applied, but due to the uncertainty of class progress caused by COVID-19, Audi Volkswagen Korea changed the class format from offline to online. The first semester online Tumo Road School, which started on the 20th, involves 13 middle schools with a total of 296 students participating.

The classes are conducted in 14 or 7 sessions depending on each school's academic schedule, and the main topics are broadly composed of ▲ understanding automobile structure and driving principles ▲ understanding and implementing future mobility concepts ▲ understanding the automobile industry and future jobs ▲ future city development.

The core of Tumo Road School is coding classes, where students can directly implement autonomous driving functions such as autonomous parking, lane keeping, and collision avoidance using coding robot cars while learning about future mobility. Additionally, there is time to develop mobile applications on the theme of mobility services.

At the end of the free semester system, based on the lessons learned, students are given the opportunity to explore new convergence industries and jobs that will appear in the future of the automobile industry and to specifically design their career paths. Furthermore, they also imagine how future mobility will change the transportation environment of future cities and have a session to design and present their ideas.

Rene Koneveag, Group CEO of Audi Volkswagen Korea, said, "We are very pleased and proud that the content and learning effects of Tumo Road School, which started last year, have been recognized not only by students and parents but also by education experts. Although the whole world is facing difficulties due to COVID-19, we will continue to create alternatives so that more students can experience the healthy purpose of Tumo Road School and future mobility."

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