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Engineering kits for children, with POSCO Beyond
Designed and built hands-on engineering kits and taught with them at community child centres in Korea and at an elementary school overseas.
- Period
- Mar 2026 – Aug 2026
- Role
- Member, 19th cohort
- Status
- Done
- Result
- Designed and built hands-on engineering kits and taught with them at community child centres in Korea and at an elementary school overseas.
Beyond is the university volunteer corps run by POSCO. I was a member of the 19th cohort.
Our work was engineering education for children. We did not hand out ready-made kits. We designed our own from the start, deciding what the kit should teach, how a child would put it together, and what could go wrong in a classroom, and then built them.
Before teaching we took training in how to teach, which changed how we designed. A kit that an engineering student finds obvious is not obvious to a ten-year-old, and the instructions had to work without us standing over every desk.
We taught with the kits at community child centres in Korea first, and then at an elementary school overseas.