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DORO-Business

Creating an educational culture that applies robotics and engineering technologies

The market economy is being reorganized and as a result, sociocultural changes are rapidly progressing. Subsequently, it is necessary to expand and diversify career fields beyond compulsory education and entrance exam-oriented education for the future workforce. DORO is an engineering education group mainly composed of 3rd and 4th year college students. It provides customized curricula for elementary, middle, and high school students and is dedicated to increasing accessibility to 4th Industrial Era technologies. For elementary school students, the focus is on generating interest through activities like kit-making. For middle and high school students, activities related to career building are offered to stimulate active participation from students. To do so, DORO works to build an educational culture that applies artificial intelligence and robots to the future.

Instructors' majors and studies are competitiveness

Most lecturers at DORO are college students with robotics engineering and other engineering majors, with some humanities, arts, and physical education majors. The basic competency that is equally required of all instructors is software development capability. DORO helps develop educational content in robotics, software, and artificial intelligence in a way that each instructor’s major area of studies is utilized most effectively. Taking advantage of being in a “university," where the latest technology and educational system are introduced, DORO offers a variety of opportunities across a broad range of subjects.

Peer-to-peer, raising the effectiveness of learning

The DORO Instructor Academy (D.I.A.) refers to a group of DORO’s instructors and an association of college student instructors who started their careers in the ERICA campus. The program expanded to other universities in the Ansan area and secured lecturers of the 3rd D.I.A. at the Seoul Institute of the Arts and Ansan University, and Sungkyunkwan University, which is outside the Ansan area. In addition to being professionals, student instructors have gained strength from being young and adaptable. The peer-to-peer learning allows instructors to communicate their own career concerns with students and increase student participation. To ensure the necessary qualifications for university lecturers, DORO requires that each instructor completes the youth instructor training program offered by DORO. In addition, DORO supports the development of PPT and kits that increase the level of engagement in learning.
The process of preparing lectures promotes the self-growth of student instructors, thus having a positive impact on both the instructors and students at the same time.

Make it yourself, improving education satisfaction

DORO's program allows students to create their own DORO kits based on two-way communication. The kits are made by students by applying theory and techniques learned during class and are not only souvenirs or memoirs of the experience, but also a great source of motivation for students to pursue their future careers.

DORO Auto Line Tracer Robot

DORO DIY Walking Robot

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DORO advances by expanding the scope of learning

DORO’s programs are offered to schools that apply to participate or when requested by the Ansan City Youth Foundation. Although at present there is a controversy over the use of ChatGPT, there is still a high demand for machine learning and artificial intelligence in the field. Fortunately, funding through the Ansan City Youth Foundation helps reduce the financial burden of the applicant schools and improves efficiency, thereby boosting satisfaction with the program that focuses on learning about high-level technology and theory.

DORO has been making consistent progress with these programs that are focusing on adolescents. In fact, DORO plans to secure a network of college students with strong connections by providing them with campus life support and employment/startup opportunities. This will be a stepping stone for the development of a robotics company that provides specialized robot job training in the future. DORO plans to expand its college student instructor training program nationwide, beyond Ansan city. It will soon launch organized activities involving university students from all over the world, and establish a platform for highly accomplished college students in science and engineering to promote regional educational activities for young people in the area.