The BMW Korea Foundation successfully concluded its ‘Mobile Junior Campus Day,’ part of its core initiative, from June 27 to July 7.
This event invited small schools with fewer than 40 students or those unable to provide classes due to inaccessibility by an 11.5-ton truck, using the BMW Korea Foundation’s Mobile Junior Campus to offer quality science creative education.
The Mobile Junior Campus Day began at the main school and satellite school of Giseong Elementary School in Uljin, Gyeongbuk, and was held at 12 institutions across Gyeongnam and Gyeongbuk, including Yeongdeok, Yeongcheon, Yangsan, Hampan, Tongyeong, Gunwi, and Uiseong, with 167 elementary students participating in classes.
Students engaged in hands-on experiences inside the Mobile Junior Campus vehicle, learning fundamental scientific principles hidden in automobiles through a ‘laboratory’ and participated in a ‘workshop’ to create their own eco-friendly cars.
Additionally, they had the opportunity to assemble a small-scale model of BMW’s all-electric iX using an electric vehicle kit, gaining insights into the principles of energy conversion and the eco-friendly features of electric car batteries.
Since its first event in September 2018, the BMW Korea Foundation’s Mobile Junior Campus Day has provided free education to a total of 1,788 children.
Since its launch in November 2012, the BMW Mobile Junior Campus has been transformed from an 11.5-ton truck into a science laboratory, not only targeting regions with a lack of educational infrastructure but also participating in various public interest events to provide science creative education. By June 2023, the total number of student participants has reached 90,513. The BMW Korea Foundation plans to continue leveraging the advantages of the Mobile Junior Campus as a moving classroom to bridge educational gaps nationwide.
Lee Sang-jin daedusj@autodiary.kr