Yongin Climate Change Experience Center Wins Grand Prize at Gyeonggi Province Contest

[Suwon Ilbo=Park No-hoon Reporter] Yongin Special City announced on the 23rd that the 'Ssusak Ssusak Board Game' from the Yongin Climate Change Experience Education Center won the grand prize in the apparatus division of the Gyeonggi Province's '8th Environmental Education Materials Contest.'

The Gyeonggi Province Environmental Education Center held the contest to discover innovative ideas for environmental education materials, targeting individuals and teams interested in environmental education, in order to raise public awareness about environmental protection.

Yongin City's 'Ssusak Ssusak Board Game' is a play on words meaning "sweeping away trash," and is characterized by allowing participants to naturally learn the proper methods of waste disposal so they can practice it in their daily lives.

The city plans to showcase the board game through the 'Plastic Exploration Life' class, an outreach environmental education program targeting 3rd and 4th grade elementary school students.

A city official stated, "We designed this board game to help children master the method of waste sorting through gameplay," and added, "Since environmental education aims to lead to practice as its final goal, we will make active efforts to develop various educational apparatuses to enhance the effectiveness of education."

Meanwhile, the Yongin Climate Change Experience Education Center, which opened in March 2015, has been recognized for its excellence, including being selected as a finalist in the Gyeonggi Province Regional Environmental Education Center Public Project last May and winning an excellence award at the Republic of Korea Environmental Education Festival Social Environmental Education (Interpreter) Contest in June, and is leading the way in climate and environmental education.