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Boryung Unveils South Korea's First Artworks on the ISS as the HIS Youth Contest Concludes

2024-09-03
<figure class='image image_resized' style='width:1048px;'><img src='/img/DATA/attachFiles/file/Editor/2024/09/05/1b043d3d-4290-4e0b-b743-f965e5b4e162'><figcaption>(<span style='background-color:rgb(255,255,255);color:rgb(0,0,0);'>Photo: Students participating in the first HIS Youth Contest are taking a group photo after the event concludes)</span></figcaption></figure><p>On August 31, Boryung announced that the Humans In Space Youth (HIS Youth) Contest successfully concluded at the National Science Museum. </p><p>HIS Youth<strong>,</strong> a collaborative initiative between Boryung and the Korea Foundation for the Advancement of Science and Creativity, was launched in May to nurture the next generation of space explorers. The inaugural contest focused on space healthcare, featuring separate categories for elementary, middle, and high school students. </p><p>Elementary school students were tasked with creatively visualizing their daily lives on a space station through drawings, while middle and high school students were required to develop research proposals to address the potential health challenges faced by astronauts during extended space missions.  </p><p>30 elementary school teams and 10 middle and high school teams selected for the first round convened at the Gwacheon National Science Museum for a training program on August 17. The program featured keynote speeches by Jay Kim, CEO and Chairman of Boryung, and Dr. Soyeon Yi, Korea’s first astronaut. Furthermore, the middle and high school teams gained mentorship from Dr. Yi, Professor Hyun-Soo Cho from Yonsei University, and Jung-In Kim, CEO of Paprica Lab. </p><p>Sukwoo Lee, Founder of SWNA, an industrial design studio, also served as a mentor for HIS Youth. Under his guidance, middle and high school students designed the official merchandise of HIS Youth, as well as the trophies for the final winners. </p><p>The final 20 elementary school teams and 3 middle and high school teams were selected during the final contest held on August 31. The event also featured special lectures by Hyo-Jong Lee, CEO of the YouTube channel 'Science Cookie,' and Hyunjun Ahn, a researcher at the Space Policy Research Center. More than 500 people, including first-round selected students and the general public, attended the event.  </p><p>The 20 selected elementary school drawings will be aboard Axiom Space's Ax-4 mission to the International Space Station, scheduled for April next year. The astronauts currently residing on the ISS will personally introduce these drawings through a video presentation. These drawings will be the first Korean payload and artwork to reach the ISS in 17 years since Dr. Soyeon Yi's mission. </p><p>The 3 winning teams from the middle and high school divisions will have the opportunity to visit major space companies in the United States, including NASA, in November. Axiom Space and Intuitive Machines, two of HIS Youth's sponsors, will provide tours of their primary facilities. Furthermore, the students will receive mentorship on research projects at prestigious institutions such as Harvard Medical School and MIT. </p><p>One student who participated in HIS Youth expressed their enthusiasm, saying, 'I've realized that space is not something distant in the future, and I can actively contribute to the space field.' </p><p>Jay Kim, CEO and Chairman of Boryung, congratulated to the final winners, 'I sincerely commend the passion and valuable achievements of the winning teams.' He emphasized, 'The drawings of our children, which will be showcased on the ISS next April, will n the ISS next April, will inspire countless young generations. HIS Youth will be a stepping-stone for more students to broaden their horizons.”       </p><figure class='image image_resized' style='width:1022px;'><img src='/img/DATA/attachFiles/file/Editor/2024/09/05/442539f5-277a-404c-bdce-21dbe211064c'><figcaption><span style='background-color:rgb(255,255,255);color:rgb(0,0,0);'>(Photo: The 'Byulnuri Team' from Chungbuk Science High School, consisting of second-year students, won the grand prize in the middle and high school division. (From left to right: Teacher Young-taek Kwon, Yu-jin Hong, Se-bin Yang, and Sung-min Kim.))</span></figcaption></figure>
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