Gyeongbuk Office of Education to Host This Year's 'Ulleung Creative Convergence Camp' for Ulleungdo Elementary and Middle School Students

Science, Math, and Information Together for Inclusive 'Creative Convergence Education'

2022 Ulleung Creative Convergence Camp Leaflet.

[Asia Economy Yeongnam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Kim Gui-yeol] The Gyeongbuk Office of Education will hold the ‘2024 Ulleung Creative Convergence Camp’ for elementary and middle school students on Ulleungdo Island over two days, from the 15th to the 16th of this month.

Held at Ulleung Middle School, this Ulleung Creative Convergence Camp is organized under the slogan “Growing Thoughts and Meeting the Future through Experience and Practice-Centered Convergence Education!” It aims to help students identify problems in their daily lives, explore and derive creative solutions, and develop problem-solving skills.

For students on Ulleungdo, a remote island area, the camp expands opportunities for exploration and experience in science, mathematics, and information fields. By providing educational programs from various centers such as the Mathematics Experience Center, Artificial Intelligence Education Center, Invention Education Center, and Maker Education Center, it enables equitable creative convergence education without discrimination.

On July 15, various educational center programs will be offered, including ▲What happens when you carve a regular icosahedron? ▲Starlight falls~ Sharalala IQ lamp ▲My own math mood lamp decorated with string art (line segments) ▲Making a deform block fidget spinner ▲Making a grip talk with a spirograph ▲Learning AI with the humanoid robot AlphaMini ▲Enjoying exciting robot competitions with friends ▲Cool down~ deform block hand fan ▲Making an LED fiber optic dolphin walker ball ▲Mosquito, go away!!! Making mosquito repellent products ▲Micro:bit practice ▲Resin crafts, and more.

On July 16, the ‘Ulleung Student SW-AI Education Camp’ organized by the SW-AI Education Teachers’ Research Association will be held for 40 elementary and 40 middle school students on Ulleungdo who applied in advance. The camp focuses on level- and step-based experiential SW-AI education to strengthen not only computational thinking but also digital literacy skills.

The Gyeongbuk Office of Education is conducting creative convergence education aimed at nurturing talents who can actively respond to the rapidly changing environment of the 4th Industrial Revolution era and creatively solve immediate problems. To this end, it is promoting the construction of the tentatively named ‘Ulleung Future Education Center,’ scheduled for completion in the first half of 2024. Through this, it is making every effort to ensure that creative convergence education without discrimination is accessible even in remote island areas.

Kim Jeong-han, Director of the Creative Talent Division, said, “We will do our best to prepare so that this Ulleung Creative Convergence Camp can be a joyful and safe festival for the students of Ulleungdo.”

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