Journal

   Since this year, our school has been conducting “International Joint Research on Programming and Robotics” in collaboration with Maryknoll High School in Hawaii.

After school on January 17th, 12 students from “Coding Team Minami” at our school participated in an online event hosted by Ethan Kimura, second-year student at Maryknoll and captain of their Coding Club.

   During the event, Ethan explained the development process of two games he made himself, and everyone was able to experience the true joy of programming.

Additionally, from our side we demonstrated a Python program written at our school, and received comments and feedback.

We look forward to further collaboration with Maryknoll High School, and hope (/aspire) to study and improve alongside them with their help. ■

Impressions:

   Firstly, thank you very much for collaborating with our school. I think that through this programme we can learn a lot about programming, and improve our English skills by communicating in English with American students.

   Furthermore, by having the chance to learn whether or not we as individuals enjoy programming, we can assist those students who want to study or work with it in the future.

Some Japanese students may have difficulties with communication due to the language barrier, but at our school we have a British assistant teacher along with bilingual foreign students, so I believe that we can complete this programme without any serious problems.

   I also think that we are all very much looking forward to working together with Maryknoll, and to making programming fun and easy for all the students.  209. ( SHEHROZ )