{"id":18709,"date":"2019-07-23T14:28:15","date_gmt":"2019-07-23T14:28:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.englishforums.com\/news\/?p=18709"},"modified":"2019-07-23T14:28:15","modified_gmt":"2019-07-23T14:28:15","slug":"it-dream-project-coding-education","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/it-dream-project-coding-education\/","title":{"rendered":"&quot;IT Dream Project&quot; provides free coding education to middle school students in Seoul"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>The LG CNS \u201cIT Dream Project\u201d was officially launched on Tuesday<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, which means that middle school students around Seoul now have the opportunity to take part in coding courses for free.\u00a0<\/span><br \/>\n<b>The project is a four-day coding camp, organized in collaboration with Sejong University in Seoul<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, where the classes will be taking place. The <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">IT Dream Project <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">is part of LG\u2019s social contributions program, and it <\/span><b>aims to show middle school students how coding can be fun and exciting.<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Many youngsters believe that coding is complicated and tedious, which is why LG is trying to shift children\u2019s perspective.\u00a0<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Information technology is of South Korea\u2019s best-developed industries, and LG is trying to spark interest in kids from a young age.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">What is the IT Dream Project?<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Throughout the four days of the coding camp, <\/span><b>professionals from the IT affiliate of the <\/b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lgcorp.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><b>LG Group<\/b><\/a><b> will teach the students to code<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> through interactive games and exercises.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Students from about thirty schools in Seoul, who participate in their respective IT clubs, are invited to join the project. According to the organizers, these <\/span><b>children have already shown serious interest in the field, and this four-day camp will help them improve and refine their knowledge.<\/b><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">As technology takes over many sectors of business and education worldwide, such initiatives can set children on a prosperous path from a young age. <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.englishforums.com\/news\/technology-takes-over-higher-education\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Online education<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> is also becoming more popular, and the better understanding students have of the inner workings of information technology and the digital world, the more prepared they will be for the future.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The LG CNS \u201cIT Dream Project\u201d was officially launched on Tuesday, which means that middle school students around Seoul now have the opportunity to take part in coding courses for free.\u00a0 The project is a four-day coding camp, organized in collaboration with Sejong University in Seoul, where the classes will be taking place. The IT [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":18710,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,1],"tags":[326,790,859,924],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18709"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18709"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18709\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}