Starting this November, Gyeonggi Game Meister High School is launching an IT employment support programme designed to sharpen the practical skills and job readiness of its graduating students.

The programme aims to proactively bridge the gap between high school education and the real-world demands of the IT and gaming sectors. By offering tailored, split-group intensive training, the school intends to produce job-ready talent. This aligns perfectly with the Gyeonggi Provincial Office of Education’s push for schools to take full responsibility for equipping graduates with the skills required to enter society.

Open to 31 eager third-year students, the programme features four distinct tracks: AWS, IoT, Portfolio, and Unreal VR. Running from November through to next January in tandem with the school's end-of-year curriculum, the tracks combine hands-on training from external industry experts with one-on-one academic and career coaching from internal faculty.

The AWS track focuses on infrastructure management—covering everything from cloud basics to VPC, EC2, S3, RDS, and serverless architectures—while the IoT track dives into hardware-software integration, using Raspberry Pi for sensor-actuator manipulation, AI applications, and autonomous driving projects.

For the Portfolio track, students walk through the entire production pipeline—from game design and prototyping to balancing, monetization, QA, and release—to craft a polished final portfolio. Meanwhile, the Unreal VR track focuses on the transition from Unity to Unreal Engine, team projects using VR templates, and expansion into industrial, medical, and educational sectors.

Gyeonggi Game Meister High School expects this initiative to bolster students' technical development skills, grasp of professional jargon, and self-directed learning habits. Beyond just landing a job, the school aims to widen horizons for students to enter burgeoning fields like education, industrial technology, and XR.

One instructor collaborating with the external experts noted, "As students define and solve problems on their own during these practical sessions, they will gain the confidence that they can truly hack it in the real world. Their finished projects will serve as powerful portfolios that significantly sharpen their competitive edge in the job market."

Jung Dae-sik, principal of Gyeonggi Game Meister High School, stated, "The crux of the Gyeonggi Provincial Office of Education's 'Social Entry Competency Development Project' is ensuring that graduating students have growth opportunities right up until the moment they leave our gates. We are committed to upholding this vision with a curriculum that stays as close to the industry floor as possible, and we intend to systemise our results to share with other Meister high schools across the country."

The school plans to consolidate the results of this programme into a core operational model to be shared nationwide. This initiative dovetails with the provincial education office's broader goal of positioning Meister high schools as regional hubs for nurturing top-tier high school-graduate talent.