Jungjingong Holds 4th Graduation Ceremony of Eardream School... Over 140 Young Developers Graduated

23 Out of 145 Graduates Employed Before Graduation
73% of Employed Graduates Are Non-Majors in AI

The Small and Medium Business Corporation announced on the 13th that it held the '4th Cohort Graduation Ceremony of the Eodream School.'

On this day, the Corporation held the 4th cohort graduation ceremony of Eodream School at Amoris Yeoksam in Gangnam-gu, Seoul, attended by Jo Han-gyo, Director of Human Resources Growth, Lim Ji-hyun, Principal of the Youth Startup Academy, and about 80 graduates of the 4th cohort of Eodream School. Eodream School is a project that nurtures unemployed youth as practical AI personnel to alleviate the developer manpower shortage in AI startups and supports their employment and entrepreneurship linkage.

The detailed schedule of the day included a meeting with graduates, an awards ceremony for outstanding graduates, networking, and various side events. At the awards ceremony, the Corporation selected 10 outstanding graduates and awarded 5 with the Minister of SMEs and Startups Award and 5 with the Corporation President’s Award.

The 4th cohort of Eodream School entered in March last year and completed a 10-month education course focused on employment and entrepreneurship, including beginner theoretical education, AI job-specialized courses consisting of basic and advanced stages, and practical startup-linked projects such as internships, until December.

As a result, through practical projects, they won one silver medal and three bronze medals in the 'Kaggle' competition, a global AI contest platform operated by Google, and achieved excellent results by winning the grand prize and the best award in the '2024 International Development Cooperation AI Data Utilization Contest' hosted by the Korea International Cooperation Agency (KOICA) and the 'ICCE x innovation Startup IR Competition' hosted by the Incheon Creative Economy Innovation Center, respectively.

Additionally, among the 145 graduates of the 4th cohort, 23 succeeded in securing employment before graduation in IT companies, including SMEs and startups. Of the employed graduates in the 4th cohort, 17, accounting for 73%, were non-majors in the AI field.

Seo Yong-won, an outstanding graduate of the 4th cohort of Eodream School, shared, "The experience of collaborating with team members to solve unexpected errors during team projects became the greatest foundation in my growth as a developer."

Director Jo of Human Resources Growth said, "With the global expansion of technology and business areas in the AI field, a shortage of developers is expected to continue in the future. We will continue to nurture excellent young developers through Eodream School and do our best to match jobs with domestic AI startups and SMEs."

Meanwhile, the Corporation is recruiting the 5th cohort of Eodream School students until the 23rd of this year. They plan to train a total of 200 people, including 150 in a non-face-to-face online course and 50 in an on-site face-to-face course. Anyone under 39 years old, unemployed in Korea regardless of academic background or major, can apply.

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