For 50 Elementary Students... Apply Between the 15th and 24th of This Month
Practical Classes for 2 Hours a Day from the 5th to 9th of Next Month
Students participating in the Summer Vacation Creative Science Camp are preparing for experiments. Provided by Yongsan-gu.
Yongsan-gu, Seoul (District Mayor Park Hee-young) is recruiting 50 local elementary school students in grades 4 to 6 to participate in the "2024 Yongsan-gu Summer Vacation Creative Science Camp" from the 15th to the 24th of this month.
This year's science camp will explore artificial intelligence (AI) and various robots under the theme "The Future of Humans and AI Robots." The program will operate team-based, experiment-focused projects to nurture scientific and technological talents with creativity and character suited for the Fourth Industrial Revolution era.
Classes will be held over five days from the 5th to the 9th of next month, from 10 a.m. to noon, divided into two groups at the Yongsan-gu Lifelong Learning Center and Yongsan Art Hall Cultural Lecture Room. Each class has a capacity of 25 students.
The camp consists of five sessions: ▲Understanding Robots and Artificial Intelligence ▲Robots Encountered at Home ▲Public Service Robots ▲Robots in Industrial Sites ▲Robots Dreaming of the Future. Ewha Womans University Industry-Academic Cooperation Foundation will manage the program.
During the "Robots Encountered at Home" session, participants will create a cleaning robot that avoids obstacles while exploring the Bernoulli principle. The Bernoulli principle explains the operation of a vacuum cleaner, where the pressure difference inside and outside the vacuum causes external dust to be sucked inside. In other sessions, students can create or experience serving robots, robotic arms, AI image coding robots, and more.
Students and parents wishing to enroll can apply through the Yongsan-gu Education Comprehensive Portal from 9 a.m. on the 15th to 6 p.m. on the 24th. If applications exceed the capacity, participants will be selected by computer lottery. The list of selected students will be finalized on the 26th of this month and individually notified.
Tuition is free, but a material fee of 100,000 KRW must be paid separately. However, the material fee will be waived for low-income groups such as basic livelihood security recipients, near-poverty groups, and single-parent families who submit the relevant documents.
Mayor Park Hee-young said, "I hope this science camp will be an opportunity for children to develop an interest in scientific and technological fields such as artificial intelligence and robots in the Fourth Industrial Revolution era."
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