Nexon celebrates 10th anniversary of NYPC coding festival

Nexon’s corporate social responsibility program, Nexon Youth Programming Challenge (NYPC), marked its 10th anniversary, successfully establishing itself as a platform that helps young people see the world differently through coding. Under the slogan “Coding that changes the world,” NYPC began in 2016 as a contest that introduced creative questions and simulator-based interactive challenges, allowing students with no prior coding experience to join easily. Since 2017, the contest has attracted more than 4,000 participants each year, drawing over 40,000 participants since starting, with 673 finalists and 193 award winners, to establish itself as Korea’s largest coding festival for young people. During the program’s run, winners have also made various social contributions to help reduce digital polarization and promote coding culture. In August last year, NYPC winners visited middle and high schools in Jeju — which has the nation’s widest gap in coding education — and offered coding-mentoring sessions, level-based classes and problem-solving workshops. NYPC has drawn particuWeiter zum vollständigen Artikel bei Korea Times Weiter zum vollständigen Artikel bei Korea Times