POSCO Future M Hosts Pureun Kkum Environmental Camp... "Build Eco-Friendly Electric Cars with Your Own Hands"

About 140 Children Participate in Pohang and Gwangyang Child Centers
Over 1,400 Graduates Accumulated Over 11 Years

A POSCO Future M employee is serving as a mentor at the 'Blue Dream Environmental Camp' held on the 30th at the POSCO headquarters auditorium in Pohang, creating an electric car model together with children. Photo by POSCO Future M

Posco Future M leverages its characteristics as an eco-friendly future materials company to carry out social contribution activities focused on environmental education for children.

On the 30th, Posco Future M held the '2024 Blue Dream Environmental Camp' for 74 children from child centers in the Pohang area at the Posco Grand Auditorium in Pohang.

The Blue Dream Environmental Camp is Posco Future M's representative social contribution activity that informs children, the future generation, about the importance of carbon neutrality and environmental protection, while providing various experiential learning opportunities. This camp continues until the 31st, and on the 6th of next month, an event will be held for about 70 children from child centers in the Gwangyang area, allowing approximately 140 children to participate in the Blue Dream Environmental Camp this year. Since the program's launch in 2013, it has been operated for 11 years, and the total cumulative number of graduates is expected to reach around 1,400 by this year.

The children participating in the camp learned about the seriousness of climate change and the necessity of biodiversity through audiovisual materials, and studied practical ways to protect the environment in daily life. In particular, they studied the basic battery components such as cathode and anode materials produced by Posco Future M, as well as the advantages of electric vehicles that emit no carbon dioxide. They also engaged in experiential learning activities such as electric car bowling using electric car models they made themselves.

Next, they participated in physical activities such as ball rolling and limbo at a mini Olympic stadium themed around carbon neutrality, and watched a special sand art performance themed on the beautiful Earth. On the second day, the 31st, they plan to carry out marine plant planting and environmental cleanup activities at Cheongnim Beach in Pohang, which Posco Future M has been developing as a companion beach.

Posco Future M employees also participate as daily mentors in the Blue Dream Environmental Camp, contributing to nurturing the future generation. Park Seongheum, Deputy Manager of the Organizational Culture Innovation Group at Posco Future M, who participated as a mentor in this camp, said, "I felt proud to empathize with the children about the importance of battery materials and to help with making electric car models," adding, "I will continue to participate in various social contribution activities for nurturing the future generation."

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