Hanwha Space Hub and KAIST announced today that they are launching a space education project "Spacekids".
Spacekids is an experiential space education project for middle school students who are interested in space. The curriculum of this project is a fusion of Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics.
This is why it can be called the so-called Korean version of the NASA Space School. In addition to this, a two-month space humanities conference course is added to develop students' creativity and imagination.
The main program is a space mission project tailored to middle school students.
Using KAIST as the base camp, this project, in which students form teams to solve problems, is conducted in the Conceptual Design Review (CDR) method, in which the entire process from selecting a topic to specifying logic and completing the task is self-directed.
Eight incumbent professors from KAIST's Department of Aerospace Engineering and mentors from KAIST's master's and doctoral programs will experience and discuss with students.
“It was designed in the same way as the team project of the masters and Ph.D.s at KAIST," said Professor Jeon Eun-ji of the Department of Aerospace Engineering at KAIST, who supervised the project,. "The way professors teach and memorize is completely excluded.”
It also develops humanities literacy that will support the foundation of space science. Professor Sangwook Kim of the Department of Physics at Kyunghee University lectures on physics in the universe.
Jeong Jae-seung, a professor of bio and brain engineering at KAIST, discusses how our brain works in an extraterrestrial space environment, what it would look like and how it would work if extraterrestrial life had a brain.
This project, jointly conducted by Hanwha Space Hub and KAIST, is open to anyone in the first or second year of middle school nationwide.
