SKT Opens ICT Experience Center for Children in Barcelona
Published2017.02.28 10:37Local executives are hired and operated in cooperation with Telefónica.
SK Telecom announced that it opened 'T.um Mobile' at Universe Plaza in Montjuïc Park, Barcelona, during MWC 2017, where local children can experience cutting-edge ICT technology.
Tium Mobile is a mobile ICT experience center, and is built in the shape of a pyramid air dome measuring 400 (20X20) m2 and 9 m high in the square in front of the main entrance of the 'YoMO (Youth Mobile Festival)' exhibition hall, which can be called the MWC for children and teenagers.
Tium Mobile is an official participant in YOMO at the invitation of GSMA (Global System for Mobile Communications Association), the organizer of MWC, as an ICT experience center for science, technology, and art education.
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Tium Mobile operates the 'IT Utilization Humanities Classroom' and the 'Albert Coding Classroom', where groups of 48 children aged 10 to 12 can experience ICT for one hour.
The 'Albert Coding Classroom' is operated in cooperation with Telefónica, a Spanish mobile carrier, and the 'IT Utilization Humanities Classroom' is operated by SK Telecom, which directly recruits local experts.
The opening ceremony of Tium Mobile was attended by domestic and international VIPs, including Choi Jae-yoo, 2nd Vice Minister of Science and ICT, GSMA Ltd. CEO John Hoffman, Telefónica Talentum School Manager Jamie Angulo, and SK Telecom President Park Jung-ho, along with students from Bongdong Elementary School and local children invited from Korea as part of the ‘Sprout Expedition Team.’
“We are very excited about the opening of SK Telecom’s T.um Mobile,” said John Hoffman, CEO of GSMA Ltd. “We believe T.um Mobile will inspire students who visit YoMo to become future STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Mathematics) talents.”
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