Gyeongbuk Provincial Office of Education Completes Setup of 'Maker Education Center' Exhibition and Experience Hall

Collection of Hundreds of Domestic and International Exhibition Experience Materials

[Asia Economy Yeongnam Reporting Headquarters, Reporter Park Dong-wook] The Gyeongsangbuk-do Office of Education announced on the 26th that it completed the final inspection of a total of 75 exhibition and experience items at the Office of Education Maker Education Center on the 24th.

Under the slogans "Turning Imagination into Reality" and "WE ARE MAKERS," the Gyeongbuk Office of Education has been designing and producing exhibition and experience items for about seven months from December 2 last year until recently to provide a deeper maker education experience program.

Since January last year, after forming a TF team, they collected data by directly visiting leading science museums in Korea as well as excellent overseas science museums and makerspaces in the eastern and western United States, Japan, and Germany.

The exhibition and experience space is composed of four "Maenggeulmaru" areas: ▲Baeummaru ▲Chang-uimaru ▲Somsimaru ▲Kiummaru. Baeummaru consists of exhibits that highlight the necessity of maker education, such as "Making Time" and "Maker 4.0." Chang-uimaru offers 12 permanent experience corners, including VR where visitors can draw in 3D and a rolling ball using magnets and steel balls.

Somsimaru is specialized as an experimental maker experience space rarely seen in existing exhibition halls, and Kiummaru is designed as a space where preschool and elementary school students and their parents can rest and play.

The exhibition and experience space, which can accommodate up to 120 people, is composed not of exhibits that simply observe phenomena but of experience items that visitors can analogically create or digitally manipulate while staying for 10 to 20 minutes, according to the Office of Education.

Jin Jae-seo, head of the Creative Talent Division at the Gyeongbuk Office of Education, who oversaw the inspection process, said, "Since this is the first attempt at experiential exhibits in a permanent exhibition hall operated by an educational institution, we carefully inspected the safety and educational purpose, and we will enhance the completeness so that many visitors are satisfied through the exhibition and experience items."

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