Operating AI & Semiconductor Classes and Traditional Culture & Arts Classes for Community Children's Centers and Elementary Schools in 4 Regions

Applied Materials Korea is partnering with the Green Umbrella Children's Foundation to support science and arts education for children in local communities. While simultaneously providing AI and semiconductor experiential education and traditional culture education, it also improves the digital learning environment through laptop donations.

Applied Materials Korea signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the Green Umbrella Children's Foundation on the 23rd and announced plans to sponsor the 'AI & Semiconductor Class with Applied Materials' and 'Traditional Culture & Arts Class with Applied Materials' programs.

In addition, they announced that they would donate 90 laptops and 12 speakers to 67 community children's centers in four regions of Gyeonggi-do: Seongnam, Icheon, Hwaseong, and Pyeongtaek.

Park Kwang-sun, CEO of Applied Materials Korea, stated, “By supporting both advanced technology education and cultural experiences, children will be able to develop creativity and systemic thinking skills based on their knowledge of AI and semiconductors.”

The AI & Semiconductor Classroom is a revamped version of the science education program that has been running for six years, and consists of experiential convergence education utilizing AI vision sensors, AI robot kits, and semiconductor STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) kits.

This year, the target audience for the education program will be expanded from existing community child centers to local elementary schools, with a total of about 330 participants including 4th to 6th graders from elementary schools in Hwaseong and Pyeongtaek and children from Seongnam community child centers.

The traditional culture and arts class, now in its third year, is operated for approximately 500 children from 40 community children's centers in four regions of Gyeonggi-do. Participating children experience traditional culture firsthand through the making of traditional masks and the experience of mask dance, a UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity.

Applied Materials Korea employees participate directly in the two programs as volunteer instructors.

The donated laptops are devices actually used by employees for work, and after being refurbished, they are scheduled to be utilized to improve the digital learning environment at local children's centers.