The second workshop on Business Plan Contest was held on April 27, following the first one held in March.
Mr Nakatani came again to help 14 High School students (G11/G12) learn further about Business Plan. This time Masashi Miyawaki (G11) was in charge, doing preparation, organizing the day, and MCing the event.
An online meeting was held between us, SOIS students and students from Muhlenberg College in the U.S. prior to their visitation scheduled on 25th of May.
We introduced ourselves and had an orientation about our online platform which we will use until they visit our school, SOIS.
Thanks to Dr. Heiman and Dr. Takahashi, our 1st online meeting was successful with good interaction between students across oceans and continents.
Now we start online chat or discussion on climate change issues, religion or Japanese culture.
This online interaction will be the basis of our not-online class which will be held on 25th of May.
8 SIS high school students participated in the second Kansai Consular Corps Youth Symposium. The theme of the event was "Kigen yoo hataraku" or "Working happily" and the venue was Osaka prefectural assembly room.
Schools taking part presented in English on Kansai businesses and employment. Feedback was given by participating country consuls and followed up with further discussion. SIS students presented their findings on problems relating to foreign resident employment. Many schools presented on their SGH research topics, but SIS's was based on a new group research project.
Osaka prefectural: Sumiyoshi HS, Shijonawate HS, Mikunigaoka HS, Kitano HS
Kobe Municipal Fukiai HS
Senri International HS of Kwansei Gakuin
Doshisha Business School
Kansai Consular Corps countries
Netherlands, USA, Panama, Indonesia, Thailand, India, Russia, Nepal, Tanzania, Canada, Denmark, Slovakia, Ethiopia, Switzerland.
Presentation abstract:
Anyone has the right to comfortably work in Japan. This applies not only to Japanese workers but also to foreign workers. The number of foreign workers have increased recently, and they have become an indispensable figure in the Japanese society. However, many of these workers are currently working in a severe environment. Can we abandon this reality when foreign workers are the key to maintaining Japan's sustainability, especially since the amount of workload in Japan is decreasing due to Japan becoming an aging society with declining birth rate? No. We believe that we should face this problem and endeavor to solving it because we are moving further towards globalization.
Focusing on the local community is one way to resolve this issue, and this would connect to making Japan an adequate place to live, also developing as a leader to other nations.
SIS seminar students and KGU students of Mr Shunichi Murata Seminar of Kwansei Gakuin, School of Policy Studies had a collaborative seminar.
Taking on the topic given by Murata sensei using the international development case method, students were exposed to a very real situation with all its complexities, reading for a month and a half in preparation.
Students presented their solutions to the question "what should we do with this situation" in groups comprised of 3rd and 4th year students from Murata sensei's university tutorial, and 2nd and 3rd year Senri HS students.
Following the long deliberated conclusions, students were given advice and comment by Murata sensei, Senri HS principal Tanaka sensei, Tsudaka sensei and Tokito sensei from Kwansei Gakuin's center for Research Into and Promotion of Higher Education. This in turn lead some lively debate.
The second half of the session was dominated by a poster session from the grade 12 Senri HS students, prompting deeper discussion of the topics from the university students and faculty which pointed to some further ideas for continued research.
This really was a great collaborative project between Senri International School student and their KG University counterparts. Thank you to everyone who contributed. Special thanks for the efforts of teachers, leading professors and all participants.
