On November 20th, the Natural Sciences Division of the 35th Ehime Prefectural High School Comprehensive Cultural Festival was held. 18 students from class 209 participated, submitting 9 works in total. As a result, “Removal of Marine Pollution Substances by Negibouzu” (onion-head plants) won the excellence award, which is equivalent to the first place in the Chemistry category, and it will be recommended as a representative of Ehime Prefecture to the 46th National Cultural Festival to be held in Tokyo next year.

   However, including other teams of our school, during the question-and-answer session with teachers and students from other schools, I encountered a problem in how to summarise and present our research results. Despite the current situation where contests have been cancelled or held remotely due to the influence of the new coronavirus, this was the first opportunity for students to present their research to students from other schools, and they were unprecedentedly nervous, The teachers think that we can improve our research by gaining such experience and coming into contact with good presentations and works from other schools. They would like us to spend our time researching how to write a dissertation, collecting data that is still lacking, and summarising good research results.

Author’s Opinion:
 I received a lot of advice from teachers and students from other schools at this competition. From now on, I would like to make use of it to advance my own research and have more fun.(209 Yuha KITAMURA)