Local Middle School Students Guided by Kumoh National Institute of Technology Win Grand Prize in Mathematics Project

Three Gumi Girls' Middle School Students Guided by Professor Kyungjun Lee of Kumoh National Institute of Technology
Awarded at the 2025 Creative Convergence Student Research Festival
Conducted Research on "Comparison of Intuitive Judgment and Statistical Model Predictive Power in Stock Price Forecasting"

Students from a local middle school, mentored by Professor Kyungjun Lee of the Department of Industrial and Big Data Engineering (Mathematical Big Data Major) at Kumoh National Institute of Technology, won the Grand Prize at the 2025 Creative Convergence Student Research Festival.

The awardees are Jimin Lim, Haedam Kim, and Yeju Shin, third-year students at Gumi Girls' Middle School (supervised by teacher Yoon Kyung Lee). Together with Professor Kyungjun Lee, the students were honored in the Data Literacy Mathematics Project category for their research titled "Comparison of Intuitive Judgment and Statistical Model Predictive Power in Stock Price Forecasting."

Jimin Lim, Haedam Kim, and Yeju Shin, 3rd-year students at Gumi Girls' Middle School (supervised by teacher Yoon Kyung Lee), won the Grand Prize at the 2025 Creative Convergence Student Research Festival. Photo provided by Kumoh National Institute of Technology

Professor Kyungjun Lee participated in the Data Literacy Mathematics Project category, providing professional research mentoring to Gumi Girls' Middle School students over the past three months and supporting them in conducting research at a higher level.

The students under Professor Lee's guidance conducted experiments in stock market prediction, comparing the outcomes of intuitive judgment and data-driven analysis. Their research examined the impact of data literacy and economic education on future forecasting and decision-making.

Through this work, they highlighted the educational importance of understanding and utilizing data, emphasizing the need to strengthen data-driven thinking skills, which drew significant attention.

The "2025 Creative Convergence Student Research Festival," organized by the Gyeongsangbuk-do Office of Education, is a platform where students, based on convergent thinking in fields such as science, mathematics, AI, software, and data, select real-world social or life issues as research topics, conduct investigations, and present and share their findings.

The festival operates in three categories: ▲ Future Scientist Development Program ▲ Student SW·AI Talent Development Project ▲ Data Literacy Mathematics Project. In particular, the Data Literacy Mathematics Project evaluates students' mathematical analysis and interpretation skills based on real data.

Professor Kyungjun Lee, who supervised the project, stated, "This achievement is the result of educational innovation created through collaboration between Kumoh National Institute of Technology and secondary education institutions. I expect it will serve as an opportunity to showcase the success of Gyeongsangbuk-do's creative convergence-oriented future talent development to a wider audience." He added, "I hope this will establish itself as an exemplary collaborative model that combines the university's research capabilities with creative learning in secondary education, serving as a benchmark for future-oriented mathematics and data education."

Last year, Kumoh National Institute of Technology also won the Grand Prize in the Future Scientist Development Program category, demonstrating the excellence of cooperative education between the university and local middle and high schools. Building on this recent award, the university plans to further strengthen collaboration with local educational institutions and continuously expand creative convergence talent development programs based on AI, data, and mathematics.

The awards ceremony was held on December 20 at Gyeongsan Indoor Gymnasium, with over 800 participants, including elementary, middle, and high school students and their supervising teachers, university professors, and parents. A total of 150 student teams in the fields of science, mathematics, and information (SW·AI) presented their research results in a poster presentation format.