Volkswagen Group's Woori Foundation to run experiential education for future mobility and exhibit at ID.4

The Volkswagen Group's Woori Foundation will run educational programmes and exhibit the Volkswagen ID.4 electric car at the Seoul Robotics and Artificial Intelligence Science Museum, which opened on 20 March, under the theme 'Future Mobility Dreams'. This is part of the company's educational social contribution activities to raise the interest and understanding of future mobility technologies among students who will lead the future.

The Seoul Robotics and Artificial Intelligence Museum (Seoul RAIM), located in Dobong-gu, is the first science museum in Korea to focus exclusively on robotics and artificial intelligence (AI), and officially opened yesterday after a two-month pilot run from July. The Volkswagen Group Woori Foundation signed an agreement with the Seoul Metropolitan Government in 2023 to organise the education and exhibition.

The Volkswagen Group's WE Foundation has been working on an educational initiative, WE: Learn, to develop automotive software talent for the mobility industry. As part of this, the education and permanent exhibition is designed to help more students and citizens understand AI and future mobility technologies, and to actively shape the future of the future through the process of thinking and questioning the interrelationship between technology and humans.

'Future Mobility Dreams' is a redevelopment of the future mobility-themed coding education programme that Volkswagen Group of Korea has been running for primary and secondary school students since 2019, adapted to the context of a science museum. The programme has been well received by students, teachers and parents, and has reached nearly 10,000 students, with one team competing in and winning the FirstⓇ LEGOⓇ League, the world's largest robotics competition.

The training will be held on the second floor of the Seoul RAIM Exhibition Centre. The walls of the training room are decorated with an art wall depicting a futuristic city to enhance immersion, and a proving ground is created using LEGO dioramas to represent the architecture of a futuristic city and charging stations for electric vehicles that are charged by charging robots, and an autonomous vehicle robot with the design of a concept car from a Volkswagen Group brand is applied to further enhance realism.

Participants will learn about future cities and mobility with robotics and AI technology, and how to control a self-driving car robot made of LEGO Spike Prime through software programming. The programme is divided into three sections: 'Welcome to Future Mobility', where participants will learn about future mobility in general and get acquainted with future technology by coding basic robot movements; 'Go! Future Mobility', which explores future jobs related to future mobility and ponders the ethical issues of self-driving cars, and 'Think, Future Mobility', which uses AI cameras to refine the robot's behaviour to complete driving in future cities. Each course is 80 minutes long, with two sessions per topic, for a total of eight sessions.

The autumn course is scheduled to run for eight weeks from 1 October and can be applied for through the Seoul Public Service Reservation website from 19 September, and is open to students in the third grade and above. On the other hand, from 24 August to 29 September, weekend one-day courses will be held on the topics of 'Autonomous Driving and Future Mobility' and 'Coding with LEGOs - Le.co.ding', and are open to those aged 7 and above.

In addition, the ID.4, Volkswagen's all-electric SUV, is on display on the first floor of the Science Centre under the theme 'AI and Mobility'. The ID.4 is equipped with state-of-the-art driver assistance systems such as IQ.Drive, including Travel Assist, Adaptive Cruise Control and Lane Assist, as well as IQ.Light, which combines LED matrix headlights with intelligent control of Dynamic Light Assist, demonstrating how AI is being applied in practice to the implementation of Level 2.5 autonomous driving and the latest automotive technologies.

"The development of future mobility software talent is a key focus of the Volkswagen Group Woori Foundation, and we see the experiential education and exhibition at RAIM in Seoul as a great opportunity to broaden the scope of this talent search. We will continue to expand opportunities for more students to learn about the future of mobility in a fun and engaging way," said Teil Scherr, Chairman of the Board of the Volkswagen Group Woori Foundation.

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