YU Dep. of Environmental Engineering wins Campus Eco-Leader ‘Grand Prize’... Awarded second consecutive year
‘Exercising Eco-friendly Life’ idea via YouTube... News production, product introduction, V-log, etc.
“It is encouraging to see people gain interest in environmental issues and to see changes in lifestyles”
[January 12, 2021]
<YU Dep. of Environmental Engineering students who won the ‘10th Campus Eco-Leader’ grand prize>
(Left to right: Hong Ye-ji, Koh Jung-ah, Jang Ga-yoon, Heo Soo-min, Kim Hyun-ji)
Students from YU won the grand prize at the ‘10th Campus Eco-Leader.’ YU won the grand prize for the second consecutive year following the 9th last year.
The Daegu Regional Environmental Office has been selecting ‘Campus Eco-Leaders’ and supporting their activities to spread eco-friendly lifestyle movements in college campuses. The 10th Campus Eco-Leaders composed of 58 people in 10 teams from four universities in the Daegu and Gyeongbuk regions were selected in 2020, and following the launching ceremony in July, they were active in for about six months until December.
Upon evaluating each Campus Eco-Leader team for the past six months, the ‘Eco Sunshine’ team made up of YU Dep. of Environmental Engineering students such as sophomores Hong Ye-jin (20), Koh Jung-ah (21), Jang Ga-yoon (20), Lim Da-bin (20), Heo Soo-min (21), and junior Kim Hyun-jin (21) was ranked first and took the grand prize and received the Minister of Environment Award.
The Eco Sunshine team engaged in not only PR activities via YouTube, etc., but also organized eco-friendly lifestyle activities both online and offline including the introduction of urban farming, eco-challenge (campaign to reduce use of disposable items), attaching eco-friendly stickers, mask band cutting challenges, etc.
The YU students received especially high evaluations for their online activities using YouTube. They opened a YouTube channel called ‘ecosunshine’ to introduce eco-friendly products such as bamboo toothbrushes, recycled cosmetic pads, etc., and also shared major environmental policies such as the repackaging prohibition law and other environment-related issues to demonstrate their unique ideas. Each team member also produced V-log videos containing their eco-friendly lifestyle habits, which received good reviews in that it proposed easy-to-practice eco-friendly activities in the everyday life of students. The students added that they regularly read books or watched movies about the environment and held discussions to form a consensus about environmental issues between team members and that it was an opportunity to expand knowledge about their major.
Miss Hong Ye-ji, who was the leader of the Eco Sunshine team, said, “As a student majoring in environmental engineering, I have always been interested in eco-friendly activities, but I found that it was quite difficult to exercise it in everyday life.” She added, “I gained even more interest in environmental issues through the Campus Eco-Leader activities, and I was also proud to see changes occurring in the lifestyles of people around me including friends and family. I hope that many studies will participate in our efforts to make an eco-friendly campus.”
