2025/09/11
Two Years, Two Golds! Coretronic Honorably Earned 2025 APSAA “Gold”
The Taiwan Institute of Sustainable Energy (TAISE) held the 2025 APSAA & TSAA Ceremony on September 11 at the Taipei World Trade Center. Coretronic (5371.TW) stood out among 153 entries submitted by enterprises, government agencies, universities, hospitals, and NGOs from Taiwan, the United States, Honduras, Italy, Switzerland, the Philippines, and so forth. Coretronic honorably earned the Asia-Pacific Sustainability Action Award “Gold—SDG 4 Quality Education” with its “Light Pioneer” social inclusion program. The CFO of Coretronic, as well as an ESG Committee member, Franck Ho, accepted the award on behalf of the Company.
The Asia-Pacific Sustainability Action Award (APSAA) has entered its fourth year, with a total of 115 winning projects selected this year (34 Gold, 36 Silver, 45 Bronze). With merely a 22% chance of winning Gold, the intensity of competition is evident. Aiming to eliminate the urban-rural digital divide, Coretronic’s “Light Pioneer” program was further enhanced and expanded this year. Following its Silver Award recognition in 2023, it has now successfully advanced to the Gold Award and has once again earned international recognition for its solid sustainability achievements.
Light Pioneer: Bring high-tech to the rural, and make the dreams real.
Since 2016, Coretronic has launched the “Light Pioneer” program in remote schools in Miaoli, implementing projects such as “High-tech Adventure”, “Future Light Camp 1.0”, and “Future Light Camp 2.0” successively. The goal is to leverage its core products and collaborate with local universities to help eliminate the digital divide and educational inequality caused by urban-rural disparities. These initiatives aim to equalize access to programming education in remote areas, and respond to SDG 1 “No Poverty”, SDG 4 “Quality Education”, and SDG 17 “Partnerships for the Goals”.
1. High-tech Adventure: Since 2016, Coretronic has invited rural students and teachers to visit the Company. Guided by volunteers from the Firefly Volunteer Team, participants can learn about and experience the latest technological products, simulate drone operations, create DIY VR smart headsets, and tour the green rooftop. Finally, the Company will lead them to visit the Science Park Exploration Museum, where they can learn about the development of Taiwan’s science parks and discover new technologies.
2. Future Light Camp 1.0: Since 2018, Volunteers from the Firefly Volunteer Team and their families have partnered with the Volunteer Team from the Department of Information Management at National United University to hold one-day technology camps at rural elementary schools in Miaoli County on weekends. Leveraging the Digital Interactive Classroom equipment previously established by the Company, the project offers rural students self-driving cars (mBot) assembly and basic programming course, a “DIY Rainbow Gun” activity based on optical principles taught in elementary school science classes, and leads them to play games from “Eco Fun Class” that integrate recycling and waste-sorting awareness. Moreover, for five consecutive years, this project has supported National United University in securing subsidies from the Ministry of Education under the “Higher Education SPROUT Project—Promoting University Social Responsibility Practice Base”.
3. Future Light Camp 2.0: To equalize access to programming education in remote areas, spark students’ interest in learning to code, teach them how to think and reason, and strengthen their logical thinking skills, volunteers from the Firefly Volunteer Team and their families have joined hands with students from the Department of Electronics and Electrical Engineering at National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University (NYCU) and Papacode to organize 6 sessions of programming workshops for rural students from Miaoli County since 2021. The camp is designed to help students complete programming courses aligned with the Ministry of Education’s Curriculum Guidelines of 12-Year Basic Education for 7th-grade through the first semester of 8th-grade. In the first semester (Days 1~3), through coding education board games such as “Coding Ocean”, creative lesson plans like “Musical Chairs”, “Loop Drawing”, and “Sport Stacking”, the program sparked students’ interest in programming by integrating abstract and difficult concepts like sequence, debugging, loops, conditional logic, and functions into fun and interactive games. The camp concluded with a problem-based, hands-on coding session using “Scratch”, enabling students to complete the first semester of 7th-grade programming coursework in advance. Then in the second semester (Days 4~6), through coding education board games such as “Advanced Coding Ocean” and “CO· DECODE”, creative lessons such as “Animal ABC” and “Restricted Communication”, as well as additional “Scratch” programming sessions, students were introduced to concepts like if/else logic, infinite loops, the basics of AI recognition, message definition, and encryption principles. They also practiced debugging, problem decomposition, and hands-on implementation. Each group completed two game programs collaboratively.
Coretronic will continue to collaborate with more stakeholders to advance the “Light Pioneer” program and further strengthen the course framework, enabling students to build upon their existing knowledge and skills by engaging in innovative technology courses with greater educational value, practicality, and fun. Thereby, the program sparks children’s interest and potential in programming and technology, and helps broaden horizons, build confidence, and courageously pursue their own bright future through continuous exploration and learning.
The Asia-Pacific Sustainability Action Award (APSAA) has entered its fourth year, with a total of 115 winning projects selected this year (34 Gold, 36 Silver, 45 Bronze). With merely a 22% chance of winning Gold, the intensity of competition is evident. Aiming to eliminate the urban-rural digital divide, Coretronic’s “Light Pioneer” program was further enhanced and expanded this year. Following its Silver Award recognition in 2023, it has now successfully advanced to the Gold Award and has once again earned international recognition for its solid sustainability achievements.
Light Pioneer: Bring high-tech to the rural, and make the dreams real.
Since 2016, Coretronic has launched the “Light Pioneer” program in remote schools in Miaoli, implementing projects such as “High-tech Adventure”, “Future Light Camp 1.0”, and “Future Light Camp 2.0” successively. The goal is to leverage its core products and collaborate with local universities to help eliminate the digital divide and educational inequality caused by urban-rural disparities. These initiatives aim to equalize access to programming education in remote areas, and respond to SDG 1 “No Poverty”, SDG 4 “Quality Education”, and SDG 17 “Partnerships for the Goals”.
1. High-tech Adventure: Since 2016, Coretronic has invited rural students and teachers to visit the Company. Guided by volunteers from the Firefly Volunteer Team, participants can learn about and experience the latest technological products, simulate drone operations, create DIY VR smart headsets, and tour the green rooftop. Finally, the Company will lead them to visit the Science Park Exploration Museum, where they can learn about the development of Taiwan’s science parks and discover new technologies.
2. Future Light Camp 1.0: Since 2018, Volunteers from the Firefly Volunteer Team and their families have partnered with the Volunteer Team from the Department of Information Management at National United University to hold one-day technology camps at rural elementary schools in Miaoli County on weekends. Leveraging the Digital Interactive Classroom equipment previously established by the Company, the project offers rural students self-driving cars (mBot) assembly and basic programming course, a “DIY Rainbow Gun” activity based on optical principles taught in elementary school science classes, and leads them to play games from “Eco Fun Class” that integrate recycling and waste-sorting awareness. Moreover, for five consecutive years, this project has supported National United University in securing subsidies from the Ministry of Education under the “Higher Education SPROUT Project—Promoting University Social Responsibility Practice Base”.
3. Future Light Camp 2.0: To equalize access to programming education in remote areas, spark students’ interest in learning to code, teach them how to think and reason, and strengthen their logical thinking skills, volunteers from the Firefly Volunteer Team and their families have joined hands with students from the Department of Electronics and Electrical Engineering at National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University (NYCU) and Papacode to organize 6 sessions of programming workshops for rural students from Miaoli County since 2021. The camp is designed to help students complete programming courses aligned with the Ministry of Education’s Curriculum Guidelines of 12-Year Basic Education for 7th-grade through the first semester of 8th-grade. In the first semester (Days 1~3), through coding education board games such as “Coding Ocean”, creative lesson plans like “Musical Chairs”, “Loop Drawing”, and “Sport Stacking”, the program sparked students’ interest in programming by integrating abstract and difficult concepts like sequence, debugging, loops, conditional logic, and functions into fun and interactive games. The camp concluded with a problem-based, hands-on coding session using “Scratch”, enabling students to complete the first semester of 7th-grade programming coursework in advance. Then in the second semester (Days 4~6), through coding education board games such as “Advanced Coding Ocean” and “CO· DECODE”, creative lessons such as “Animal ABC” and “Restricted Communication”, as well as additional “Scratch” programming sessions, students were introduced to concepts like if/else logic, infinite loops, the basics of AI recognition, message definition, and encryption principles. They also practiced debugging, problem decomposition, and hands-on implementation. Each group completed two game programs collaboratively.
Coretronic will continue to collaborate with more stakeholders to advance the “Light Pioneer” program and further strengthen the course framework, enabling students to build upon their existing knowledge and skills by engaging in innovative technology courses with greater educational value, practicality, and fun. Thereby, the program sparks children’s interest and potential in programming and technology, and helps broaden horizons, build confidence, and courageously pursue their own bright future through continuous exploration and learning.
