Smilegate, the BBC Microbit Education Foundation wins award -winning youth team emission

[ Park Yeo-jin Reporter] Smile gate Future Lab (hereinafter referred to as Future Lab) 'Do Your: BIT' 2022 'Ryan House' project won the 'Runner' of the Idea Category of 8-14 years old. It was announced on the 11th.

'Do Your: BIT 2022' held by the British BBC Microbit Education Foundation is creatively using microbit and coding technology by children and youth around the world (8-18 years old) to achieve UN sustainable development goals. It is a challenge to create and exhibit a contributed project. This is the first time to win the domestic team.

In Korea, with Smile gate Future Lab's 'Microbit Global Challenge', 403 elementary and secondary classes and 19,900 children and teenagers participated in the country, and 652 teams (1,216 children and teenagers) The project was exhibited at BIT 2022.

'Ryan House', which was honored with the award, is a project that regulates the population of the cat and supports adoption to protect the animal rights of the long cat and create an environment where animals and people can coexist. Microbit with food is laid, and a specialized agency is neutralized based on the collection data, such as attracting long cats, populations, and mobile routes, to control the population and adoption as a home.

Kim Neil Young, a student at Seoul Chung am Middle School, said, I saw an article that the cat was a social issue and thought about how to coexist with them. I expressed my feelings. In addition, Row Fungi, a student at Chung am Suing, said, We hope that our ideas will contribute to solving the problem of long cats.

Smile gate Future Lab signed an official partnership with the Asia-Pacific region of 'Do Your: BIT' with the BBC Microbit Education Foundation in 2019. Since then, the 'Microbit Global Challenge' is held every year, and software creation projects on the theme of UN sustainable development and related learning can be activated in the public education site, providing teaching and parishes developed with current teachers, and operating teacher training, etc. It supports.

On the other hand, on November 2, Smile gate Future Lab will hold an online conference for educators, 'How SW Education is shifted to creative learning'. Participating teachers and students, including the Ryan Project Team, will participate in the speakers to share the significance and achievements of the microbit global challenge, and share the software-based creative learning culture that is spreading in public education.