[Suwon Ilbo=Reporter Seo Dong-young] Osan City announced on the 25th that it had newly selected 5 schools for its 2020 in-school Makerspace initiative.
In addition, including 7 schools established last year, the city will promote makerspace construction and operation projects in a total of 12 schools.
The 5 newly selected schools for in-school makerspaces are Sucheon Elementary School, Daeho Middle School, Sema High School, Unam High School, and Osan Information High School. The city plans to provide project funds for facility construction at the selected schools.
Furthermore, the city plans to provide facility and operational expenses to the 7 previously established schools (Geumam Elementary School, Sungho Middle School, Unam Middle School, Osan Middle School, Sungho High School, Segyo High School, and Uncheon High School) to ensure that projects continue to be maintained.
The 'in-school makerspace creation project' is an initiative that supports spaces within schools where students can bring their ideas to life using various tools, and freely share failures, know-how, and techniques that emerge during the creative process through makerspace activities.
Students will engage in diverse makerspace activities in these spaces going forward, utilizing them as collaborative areas where students and teachers can imagine, create, and share their work.
A city official stated, "The in-school makerspace was created with the aim of allowing students who cannot visit the Osan Maker Education Center due to time and distance constraints to engage in free makerspace activities within their schools," and added, "We hope that through the makerspace, interest in the maker field among teachers and students will take root and become the fruit of Osan-style maker education in the future."
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