As I am in academia, specifically education, I believe in the importance of engagement & service-learning as a social responsibility. I hope my further research will be able to contribute to having a better world regarding education with equity.
I have engaged in several engagement & service-learning activities that are linked to my research interest as well as contribute to society in terms of providing more effective learning opportunities. Detailed descriptions are introduced in the following.
Kang, S., & Yu, W. (2024, February 29). Reflection on the Growth of Graduate Students: From Engagement & Service-Learning Experiences [Conference presentation]. Engagement and Service-Learning Summit at Purdue, West Lafayette, IN, United States. https://www.purdue.edu/engagement/summit/
Presentation Title: Reflection on the Growth of Graduate Students: From Engagement & Service-Learning Experiences
Presenters: Seoljoo Kang & Wonjin Yu
Held at Michigan State University on October 2023
Learned about the value of engagement and service-learning and had networks with other emerging engagement scholars in the workshop
Served as a committee member specializing in the elementary division to support successful preparation for the 2024, 2025 Computer Science Teachers Association (CSTA) Conference
PFP is an engagement & service-learning project by collaborating with a community partner, Imagination Station at Lafayette (Spring 2022 to present).
We held several hands-on sessions to give the participants knowledge of the concept of physics to young learners in the community.
Specifically, I engaged in the PFP as a volunteer facilitator, contributed to designing the program in the lens of 'T (Techology)' in STEM.
All the participants agreed on the use of their photos with their consent forms.
Dr. Wanju Huang, and Wonjin Yu (Awarded $1,500)
Service learning grant for Community Service / Service Learning Project
CARE Project (Chips, Artificial-Intelligence, Robots for Education).
Recognized for exemplary service for 2023-2024 as a manuscript reviewer in Educational Technology Research & Development.
Participated as an advisory committee member in South Korea. (2022)
The national project to expand computing education as a regular and elective course to all K-12.
A judge committee member for the development of online courses for in-service teachers (2018 - Present)
Korea Education and Research Information Service (KERIS)
The member of CASD from 2018 to present.
CASD consisted of 35 elementary school teachers and prospective teachers in Daegu National University of Education.
Contributed to activate national curriculum of computer science education (known as Software Education in Korea).
Operated and Participated in a lot of educational events with CASD Teachers.
Awarded Contributing to Educational Donation by Minister of Science, Information, and Communication Technology. (2018)
Operated an experience booth to spread and promote software education across the country. (2017 - 2019)
Operated free weekend classrooms for everyone with colleague teachers every weekend (Daegu, South Korea)
Awarded a prize for activation of software education donation activities from the Minister of Science and Technology Information and Communication (2018)