Busan Office of Education Hosts SW·AI Education Hackathon for Middle School Students

The Busan Metropolitan Office of Education will hold the '2023 Busan SW·AI Education Middle and High School Student Hackathon Competition' on the 26th and 27th at BEXCO Exhibition Hall 2, with 13 middle school teams and 13 high school teams participating.

Hackathon is a compound word of Hacking and Marathon, referring to hacking or developing programs within a set time and place, similar to a marathon.

This competition aims to nurture creative future talents equipped with computational thinking skills. It is intended to activate school SW·AI education and to improve awareness and spread the culture of SW·AI education.

Busan Office of Education.

The 26 teams and 104 students participating in this competition were selected through a document screening preliminary round.

The students will engage in a project activity to create Data·IoT·AI-based products or services under the theme of 'Implementing ideas to solve social problems' over a non-stop 2-day period.

The conceived ideas will be presented by each team for 5 minutes in the order determined by a draw. Afterwards, 14 teams will be selected through judging and awarded prizes including the Busan Metropolitan Office of Education Superintendent's Award.

Ha Yun-su, Superintendent of the Busan Metropolitan Office of Education, said, “This competition will greatly help improve awareness and spread values of SW·AI education by strengthening public education-centered SW·AI education. I hope this competition becomes a good opportunity to develop students' computational thinking skills and activate school SW education.”

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