Nexon Foundation Wins Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Education Award at the 「Korea Education Donation Awards」
Dec 13, 2024
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'Korea Education Donation Awards' is an award ceremony that recognizes individuals, organizations, and companies that have contributed to the spread of education donation culture through activities such as supporting educational programs, providing equipment and contents, and donating talent. The subjects of commendation are selected by verifying the suitability, contribution to activation, excellence, and sustainable development of the educational donation program.
The Nexon Foundation was honored for its contribution to the popularization of coding education and closing the digital education gap through the 'High-5 Five Challenge' program to foster children's computing thinking skills. Sponsored by the Nexon Foundation and developed by the Computing Teachers Association (ATC), the 'High Five Challenge' is a new concept educational program that combines 'Nobel Engineering' and Brick Play.
The Nexon Foundation has signed business agreements with five education offices nationwide, including the Jeollanam-do Office of Education, the Jeju Special Self-Governing Province Office of Education, the Incheon Metropolitan Office of Education, the Gangwon Special Self-Governing Province Office of Education, and the Jeonbuk Special Self-Governing Province Office of Future Education Research Institute, and operates educational programs for more than 120,000 students. In addition, it supports teaching materials such as bricks and teacher training necessary for basic coding education, focusing on geographically and socially marginalized elementary schools. So far, about 33 million bricks have been applied by the Nexon Foundation to the educational field.
Kim Jung-wook, chairman of the Nexon Foundation and CEO of Nexon, said, `I am grateful that you highly appreciate the efforts we have made based on the interest in education without gaps between children and teenagers.' `We will continue to think about the social contribution activities that game companies can do best and contribute to creating an educational donation culture.'
Meanwhile, Nexon and Nexon Foundation are taking the lead in expanding the base of youth coding education by holding a youth programming competition (NYPC), launching a free coding learning platform (BIKO), and launching a game-based free block coding platform (Hello Maple) based on deep interest in children and teenagers, the future of our society.
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