They Looked at Consistency, Not Grades... The 100 Days of Change Created by Jeju Students

[Financial News Jeju = Reporter Jung Yong-bok] Jeju students who set study goals with friends and carried them out day by day have recorded 17,506 hours of learning over 94 days. A special 100-day celebration will honor not only grades or study volume, but also the challenge, consistency, peer cooperation and self-directed growth shown over the course of the program.
According to the Seogwipo Office of Education on the 26th, it will hold a performance-sharing event for the peer-learning community "The Miracle of 100 Days" on the 27th at its main auditorium. Students, parents and learning mentors will take part and look back on the past 100 days of activities and change together.
"The Miracle of 100 Days" is a self-directed learning program in which students form a learning community with friends, set their own goals and record their daily efforts.
The Seogwipo Office of Education has run the 100-day program since a pre-camp on May 16, which brought together 120 students from 20 elementary and middle schools in the Seogwipo area. By day 94, the students had accumulated 17,506 hours of learning records.
The key point is not how much they studied, but how consistently they kept the promises they made to themselves over the 100 days.
The office plans to present awards from the superintendent of education to 66 Challenge Award winners, 13 Completion Award winners, 15 Excellence Award winners and two special award teams after reviewing the students' participation and growth. The evaluation considered not only learning outcomes, but also efforts toward goals, self-directed change and cooperation with friends.
The theme of the sharing event is "Our Second 100-Day Celebration." The venue will feature a traditional 100-day celebration table, rice cakes and a photo zone. Records of the students' learning activities and written reflections from parents will also be on display.
The theme song for "The Miracle of 100 Days" and videos of the activities, both created by the students themselves, will also be unveiled. Students, parents and mentors will share their experiences and talk about the kinds of change and growth that are difficult to capture in numbers.
The 100-day experience will not end on the day of the event. In the final segment, students will write letters addressed to their "selves after another 100 days" and seal them themselves. The office will keep the letters and send them back to the students in December, so they can reflect on their current resolutions and how they have changed since then.
The program also aligns with this year's key initiative, "Strong Together, Strong Within," promoted by the Seogwipo Office of Education. It focuses on helping students build self-directed study habits and confidence within a learning community with friends.
Kim Ji-hye, superintendent of the Seogwipo Office of Education, said, "The Miracle of 100 Days is a change created not by extraordinary results, but by the process students carried through each day in their own place." She added, "I hope the confidence that they can start again, even on days when things do not go as planned, remains their most valuable lesson."


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