- To produce software instructors who will contribute to cultivating young talents with logical and creative     thinking ability
- Plans to offer 40 hours of training in coding and 3D training over the course of four weeks at T Academy
- Over 3,600 instructors will be trained during the next three years, which will allow for over 200,000 grade     school students to receive software skills training

Seoul, Korea, March 23, 2015—SK Planet today opens a new training program aimed at growing a pool of instructors capable of teaching computer software skills to grade school students. The program is held as part of the ‘MOU for partnership on the Creative Talents Promotion Program’ that SK Planet signed with Ministry of Science, ICT and Future Planning (MSIP) and The Korea Federation of ICT Organizations (KFICT).

The program is designed to produce software instructors who will contribute to cultivating talents with logical and creative thinking ability required in the future software-centered society. Trained instructors will offer software skills training at nationwide grade schools. Current computer instructors recommended by the school principal are eligible to apply.

Select instructors will receive 40 hours of training in ‘Scratch & Scratch in Hardware (coding)’, ‘Small Basic (coding)’, and ‘3D Makers and Printing (3D printing)’ during the course of four weeks at T Academy located in Seoul and Daejeon. Upon the completion of training, instructors will be sent to afterschool computer classes opened to students in third and upper grades starting from June.

Over 1,200 instructors will be trained by the end of this year through four rounds of courses. And by the year 2017, a total of 3,600 instructors will receive regular and/or intensive courses, which will allow for over 200,000 grade school students to receive software skills training.

SK Planet COO Suh Seong-won emphasized, “US, Britain, and other advanced countries saw the importance of software training early on and offered computer skill training to grade school students.” Looking towards the future Suh expressed his strong commitment to “having T Academy further contribute to Korea’s emergence as a software powerhouse by nurturing creative talents required in the software-centered society.”