Samsung's Education CSR 'Dream Class'... Nurtured 100,000 Middle School Students Over 13 Years

Dream Class Winter Camp and 1st Term Completion Ceremony on the 26th

Samsung is carrying out various youth education and win-win activities.

On the 26th, Samsung held the Dream Class Winter Camp and 1st Graduation Ceremony at Sungkyunkwan University Natural Science Campus (located in Jangan-gu, Suwon-si).

Dream Class is Samsung's educational CSR project that started in 2012. It began by providing English and math learning environments to middle school students facing difficult educational conditions, and since 2021, the program has expanded to include career exploration and future competency education courses.

Middle school mentees participating in the Dream Class winter camp are fully engaged in the creative coding education program.
[Photo by Samsung]

So far, the cumulative number of middle school mentees participating in Dream Class has reached 99,382, and the number of university student mentors is 25,222.

Before the graduation ceremony, Samsung conducted a winter camp from the 23rd to the 26th at Sungkyunkwan University Natural Science Campus for 250 outstanding middle school students (1st grade).

Under the theme "A Journey to Grow Dreams," this camp was conducted as a residential program where participating students stayed with university student mentors, established individual learning strategies, and engaged in advanced learning to strengthen future competencies such as coding and reading. In addition, various programs such as career special lectures by active professionals like Kang Cheol-won, an Everland zookeeper, and So Jae-min, a Samsung Electronics executive director, as well as scholarship quiz programs, were held.

Among the 70 university student mentors participating in this winter camp, 7 were former Dream Class middle school mentees, continuing a "virtuous cycle of sharing" by once again sharing their growth experiences through Dream Class with their juniors.

At the event, not only the students who participated in the winter camp but also about 60 outstanding students from the 1st group (3rd grade) who actively participated in Dream Class activities before entering high school attended and received awards and scholarships from related organizations.

Jang Seok-hoon, Head of Samsung Social Contribution, said through a video message, "We held the graduation ceremony to celebrate and encourage the students who have embarked on their 'dream journey' through Dream Class over the past three years and have entered high school. We will do our best to help the youth of Korea find and achieve their own dreams."

A Samsung official emphasized, "Going forward, Dream Class plans to actively expand various customized educational programs for youth, including online learning content, mentoring by university students, employees, and experts, affiliated company experience events, and club activities."

Meanwhile, under the CSR vision "Together Towards the Future! Enabling People," Samsung is carrying out social contribution activities in youth education and win-win cooperation.

This content was produced with the assistance of AI translation services.