Osan City Selects 5 Schools for New Makerspace Projects

[Suwon Ilbo=Reporter Seo Dong-young] Osan City newly selected 5 schools for the 2020 In-School Makerspace project on the 25th.

Including 7 schools built in previous years, the city will pursue makerspace construction and operation projects at a total of 12 schools.

The 5 schools in makerspace selected this time are Sujeong Elementary, Daeho Middle, Sema High, Unaam High, and Osan Information High. The city plans to provide project funding for facility construction at the target schools.

Furthermore, the city plans to provide facility and operating expenses to ensure that business activities at the 7 previously constructed schools (Geumam Elementary, Seongho Middle, Unaam Middle, Osan Middle, Seongho High, Segyo High, and Uncheon High) are sustained continuously.

The 'In-School Makerspace Creation Project' is a project that provides spaces within schools where students can materialize their ideas using various tools, and where maker activities take place where failures, know-how, and techniques that arise in the making process are freely shared.

Going forward, students in the space will engage in various maker activities and the space will be utilized as an area for students and teachers to imagine, create, and share their works.

A city official stated, "The in-school makerspace was established with the aim of allowing students who cannot visit the Osan Maker Education Center due to time and distance constraints to freely engage in maker activities within their school," and added, "We hope that through the makerspace, the interest of teachers and students in the maker field will take root and bear fruit as Osan-style maker education in the future."