The 2026 Youth Science Talents One-on-One Mentoring orientation was held. Provided by the Korea Academy of Science and Technology.
Interest in engineering is operating excessive amongst teenage science talents. This 12 months, among the many 87 candidates for the Korea Academy of Science and Technology (KAST) Youth Science Talents One-on-One Mentoring program, 44 college students selected the sphere of engineering, accounting for greater than half of all candidates and marking the very best proportion previously 5 years. KAST chosen 30 of them to start a five-month analysis journey with the nation’s main students and next-generation scientists.
KAST introduced on the 18th that it held the “2026 Youth Science Talents One-on-One Mentoring Orientation” at 4 p.m. on the fifteenth, formally launching the mentoring actions.
Now in its nineteenth 12 months, the “Youth Science Talents One-on-One Mentoring” program pairs first- and second-year highschool college students who’ve an curiosity and expertise in science and expertise with KAST members and next-generation scientists for 1:1 mentoring to hold out analysis tasks. The program is designed to assist college students develop self-directed inquiry expertise and creativity.
This 12 months, 87 college students advisable by excessive faculties nationwide utilized, and candidates within the engineering subject numbered 44, accounting for greater than half of all candidates and recording the very best proportion previously 5 years.
The ultimate quantity of chosen mentees is 30. In line with this system’s intention of increasing the bottom of science training and tradition, KAST said that it chosen mentees in a balanced manner, together with 13 from non-capital areas (43%), 9 from basic excessive faculties (30%), and 13 feminine college students (43%).
A complete of 30 mentors will participate, together with 9 KAST members corresponding to Professor Hong Gyu Park of Seoul (*30*) University, Professor Young Woo Sohn of the School of Computational Sciences on the Korea Institute for Advanced Study, Professor Seung Hwan Ko of Seoul (*30*) University, Professor Jio Lee of POSTECH, and Professor Min Su Yu of KAIST, in addition to 21 younger scientists underneath the age of 45 from the Korean Academy of Youth Science and Technology.
Starting with the orientation, mentees and mentors will proceed mentoring actions for about 5 months. The program is organized round inquiry- and experience-based actions, together with planning and finishing up analysis tasks, individualized mentoring corresponding to visits to analysis labs, and the Hallym Future Science Camp.
After the mentoring interval ends, three prime mentees can be chosen and supplied a particular alternative to go to science analysis websites in Sweden along with the science academics from their faculties.
President Jin Ho Jeong mentioned, “Securing talent in science and technology is a core national priority, so we must ensure that young people interested in science can directly experience the joy of research and the social value of science and technology,” including, “We will support the nation’s leading scholars and next-generation scientists so that they can serve as strong mentors to help nurture future science and technology talent.”
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