In this training, 2nd and 3rd year students visited universities and companies in the Kanto region for two days starting August 1st.
On the first day, we visited Tokyo Institute of Technology and the Institute of Industrial Science, the University of Tokyo. In the former, in Professor Nagahara's workshop, each group made a hypothesis, measured it, and considered about what it could be expected mathematically through these results.
In the latter, we took a lecture about STEM education, scientific and technical communication, astrophysics and neutrinos.
After that we visited several facilities and used an educational app developed by graduate students to consider how it worked.
Both were very interesting and exciting for us.
On Friday, July 21, a hands-on programming class was held at the Media Hall in Ehime University's Comprehensive Information and Media Center. Twenty-five elementary school students from Matsuyama City participated in the class and experienced programming using LEGO Education SPIKE Prime.
The school's ICT education support staff and STEAM education support staff served as instructors, and two Ehime University students, who work as school supporters , and 16 first- and second-year students from the school supported the elementary school students as teaching assistants. First, the students created their own robot cars with LEGO bricks, programmed them using the SPIKE software, and gave them a test drive. Next, they improved the robot car by using gear parts to make it run faster, and finally, everyone competed in a robot car race.
Thank you to all the students who participated in the event. We hope that this event will spark your interest in programming and robot.
All of the children in this hands-on class were interested in programming, and they immediately put into practice what we taught them, such as how to move forward and how to make it faster, which we enjoyed.
STEAM Symposium, which Nikkei Newspaper hosted is held in Osaka International Exchange Centre. 15 students in three groups took part in a three-month online workshop since April. As ‘Cheers!’ we worked together to make presentations with the advice of university student supporters and business people working in the field.
Five third-year students took part in “Student summit ~Future Earth Conference~” which suggested ways to protect future earth. Five third-year regular course students took part in a “Poster session,” which let them experience the hypothesis Testing Cycle. Five second-year regular course students took part in the “DIS steam seminar,” which suggested ways to use ICT in educational facilities.
We left the school at 6:30 am on July the 19th by bus. We started research as soon as we arrived. It was very busy, with the closing ceremony at 4:30pm. But we were able to learn through the presentations of various people. Business people and people involved in the Osaka Expo were invited as judges. The thigs pointed out were instructive. The many presentations were easy to understand, and they taught us a lot of techniques. We were only able to attend this for half a day, but it was very fulfilling.
The result of this was that we won the best prizes in ‘DIS steam seminar’. We received compliments on our presentation. This encouraged us for our future research in Data Science Ⅱ. It was hard work, but it was very meaningful. (205HR TAKAHASHI Yusuke)
On June 16th,a cultural lecture for high school students was given by a manga artist, Mr.Shinichi Sakamoto, “In search of your manga expression.” He is a sincere person, passionate and dedicated to research. He talked about his success and setbacks in his life of loving manga, and his passion conveyed to students' hearts. There wasn't enough time for every student to inquire about everything he had experienced or advices during the question and answer session. It was a meaningful lecture for students. Our school positioned this lecture as the "A:Art" of STEAM education and conducted it as a STEAM lecture. The students were able to learn from Mr.Sakamoto, who also has airs of being a researcher, about “a heart that loves research” and “the importance of continuing to gather data without fear of failure.”
When I attended the lecture, I realized I want to find something that I can absorb myself in. (204 Kuroda Sara)
2023/03/25 Awarded Encouragement Prize at the 9th Mathematical Engineering Contest hosted by Musashino University
The flywheel group from our second grade science and mathematic students work on a research project titled “wind power generation using a flywheel with a variable moment of inertia”, and received an encouragement award for the paper they submitted to this competition. At the award ceremony which was held online, the judges gave very thoughtful comments on this research and it was a pleasure to receive the award, as well as to have additional perspectives that can inform our future research. ( 309 Murakami haruhumi )