The first year students have been learning about disaster prevention, medical care, economy, international affairs. Also, they have been working on pre-assignments, which includes preparations for the next near's assignment.
The second year students of science coursedid TA cloning of PCR product at Imabari Campus, Okayama Science University. The students of Deer group are working on analytical aietary habit of Jpanese deer. They study what is in their stomachs. On Wednesday, December 2, the students put the product into a collon bacillus. They cultured the collon bacillus on Agar medium containing ampicillin.
On a company tour, the students visited "Itomachi Marche" and its surrounding facilities managed by Ito Project Co. Ltd. on December 1st. This company works on the specialized fields such as city planning, design and architecture for revitalization of Saijo. The students learned such efforts and motivated themselves for their futre carrer selection and its realization.
We invited Mr. Yano, FC Imabari's club leader, gave a lecture on November 17. A lot of students who were working on PE research group took part in the lecture. In this lecture, the lecturer told about the stories of the time when he led a soccer team in the Netherlands. In addition, he told the students about what FC Imabari is wroking on to improve themselves. He said that the team set the long term concrete goals and they are making efforts to realize what they should be. The following are their goals. "We will become the team that is always in the championship tournaments. Our goal is to be the top of ACL." "We produce over 5 players who can play on Japan's national team.
Mr. Kubo, who is an academic director of Ehime Orange Vikings, professional basketball team was invited to the lecture held at our school on Friday, November 13th. The title of his lecture is "Sport Science's theory and practice." The lecture was for the students who work on the PE research team. He told them how to make the most of the sports science theory, how to connect with community and how to revitalize it.
The 34th High School Comprehensive Culture Festival
The presentation of nature and the chemistry department was held on November 4, at Ehime Prefectural Cultural Center. Seven groups of our students passed the first screening joined this contest: two physics groups, two chemistry groups and three earth science groups. The groups of earth science were selected for the Excellent Award and the Encouragement Award.
Assigned resesarch "Senjyo Team" joined the activity of making a bamboo green house on Sunday, November 8th. Since last year, our school has joined terraced paddy field research in Senjyo, which Kyoto University Graduate School of Global Environmental Studies is working on Senjyo district, located in the mountains of Saino, has a serious problems with the wild animals. As a cuntermeasure, people decided to make a bamboo green house with the bamboo growing around the area. They polish and cut the bamboo to use it as the framework of the gree house being made little by little, they are all looking forward to its completion.
Mid\term presentation of Multi Science 1 was carried out on Thursday on November 5th. We reported assignments which tecond grade students have worked on so far(the humanities course with 29 works and the science course with 27 works). Many people came from various places such as the university of Ehime, that of Matsuyama, the comprehensive education center, the synthetic science museum, the college of technology of Niihama, Saijo city hall, some junior high schools and high schools. They came to advise Saijo high school students.
On Tuesday, November 3rd, the finals of the contest sponsored by Oita Uiversity was held online. Two research studies conducted by our high school students had been selected among the ten finalists groups. Also, Saijo high school won the cooperation prize because of many reports of research applied to the contest.
The following are the topics of research study of the two winners:
"AI---Robots and Hospitals---"
"The experiments to grow Nori, or a kind of seaweed, using Uchinuki underground water"
One of the groups of commercial course is working on the research of Ihinokawa mine. They are now making a movie to show the attractions of the mine.