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| Students make a presentation during last year's Hanwha Science Challenge contest at the company's recruiting facility in Gapyeong, Gyeonggi Province, in this file photo. // Courtesy of Hanwha Group |
By Jhoo Dong-chan
Hanwha Group will hold the Hanwha Science Challenge, a contest helping youths develop and strengthen their creativity in science. It will receive applications until April 2 from high school students accompanied by their teachers who want to participate in the annual contest.
Now in its seventh year, the Hanwha Science Challenge is a part of the group's corporate social responsibility (CSR) activities in education, aiming at finding and encouraging future scientists. This year's theme is the same as it was last year _ "Saving the Earth."
"The contest is not about finding a correct answer for each question. It focuses mainly on enhancing the participating students' creativity and solution-finding capacity," a Hanwha Group spokesperson said.
"Students are also required to discuss and find a solution as a team. It will offer a great opportunity to raise their communication skills."
The grand prize-winning team will receive 40 million won while two gold and two silver medalist teams will receive 20 million won and 10 million won, respectively. Prize-winning teams are also offered a field trip to see selective foreign colleges and science institutes as well as Hanwha global operations.
In January last year, 10 prize winners from five teams went to Europe to visit the world's largest particle physics laboratory CERN and the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, which has produced 21 Nobel Prize winners including Albert Einstein.
A total of 8,700 students from 4,122 teams have so far participated in the Hanwha Science Challenge since 2011, and over 700 teams are expected to participate in this year's event as well.
Hanwha spokesman said more than 60 percent of previous competition winners have landed in selective universities at home and abroad to fulfill their dreams in science.
Hanwha Group is also expected to give recruitment benefits to finalist students in case they apply for jobs with the group in the future.
For more information, visit sciencechallenge.or.kr or call 02-729-1472.
