Record of Our Activities

For the prevention of the spread of coronavirus infection, the above-mentioned event was cancelled.

Five schools designated as New Super High Schools (known as NSH), Izumigaoka, Nanao, Sakuragaoka, Nisui and Komatsu, gathered at Ishikawa Industrial Promotion Center.  The selected teams of each school made presentations on their research topics. Suisei High School was invited as a special guest presenter. Three groups from Class 21 and 22, which were chosen on Presentation Day in December, participated in the event. This was a fruitful event where the participating students exchanged their opinions on the spot.
(Voices from the Participants)
・It was really tough to fix the presentation slides again and again but we finally made satisfying ones. Everyone in our group worked seriously and talked actively, which was key to the successful presentation today. This experience will be helpful when we do research in college and when we work in society.  
・It was great fun and a good experience to discuss how we could improve our community with participating teachers and students from other schools as well as our group members. By working very hard for this event, we acquired the ability to find a problem and solve it.

The students in both SG and SS courses made presentations on January 24th with an audience of about 60 teachers from high schools or universities all over and outside of Ishikawa.  Two representative teams from each course presented in the auditorium, and heated arguments with pointed questions and good answers followed.  In the afternoon, the poster sessions were held and all the research groups presented to the listeners proudly.
(Voices from the Students)
・I learned that making a presentation is like playing catch; I asked a listener who looked puzzled, “Have I made myself clear?” and then he asked me a question. Taking advantage of the advice I got today, I would like to develop our project.
・Opinions from adults or science course students are helpful in making our research more logical and interesting.
・This was a good opportunity to improve our research since we got comments from various perspectives. We talked a lot after school every day for the past two weeks to prepare for the presentation and deepened our research, so we now have stronger bonds with our group members. We want to remember what we have learned through this experience and have confidence in continuing to work on challenging matters to change society.

On January 15th, the SG course students made presentations to the arts students of Class 21, 22 and 23.  On the following day, in turn, the arts students presented their research to the SG students. They shared their ideas, which became a good opportunity to reconsider their research procedures.

49 groups from Kanazawa University High School, Izumigaoka, Nisui and Kanazawa Nishi High School gathered at the gym of Kanazawa University High School, and shared what they had been working on during the past year. This year, Kanazawa Nishi high School joined us for the first time. This event was motivating to the participants, who are geographically close to each other but seldom have opportunities to discuss their projects.  A participant said, “I was impressed at everyone’s ambition to contribute to the society, the feasibility of their plans and their ability to take action.”

Representatives of the high schools all over Japan designated as Super Global High Schools met at Tokyo International Forum on December 22nd to present their research projects.  The two students from our school made a poster presentation about the effectiveness of their revised prototypes of the current disaster prevention manual used in Ishikawa. They also had a discussion on global issues in terms of contributing to SDGs in English. They said, “We met a lot of people in the same generation who looked promising, which inspired us to work hard to be global leaders.”

On November 27th, sixteen college students who participated in a program hosted by CAPE (Centre of Asia-Pacific Excellence) visited our school.  They were freshmen studying in universities in New Zealand, and stayed in Ishikawa for about two weeks to learn Japanese and Japanese culture. The students of Class 24 welcomed them and talked about their research projects and enjoyed discussion about social issues in New Zealand.
(Voices from the Students)
This was my first time to talk with people from New Zealand.  They were easy to talk with and kind. They shared their thoughts about our project cordially. Their feedback about our research was helpful in our further fieldwork.

On November 20th, some graduate students were invited to listen to the presentations by 2nd year SG-course students on their research topics.  Eight research groups explained how their projects were going and got advice in terms of effective use of data and information. They also found out whether they were doing research in the right way.
(Voices from the Students)
・The graduate students made a good point.  They pointed out our hypothesis was completely wrong, which perplexed us.  However, this was a good opportunity for us to think about it objectively. I was also impressed with the logic and abundance of knowledge of the graduate students.
・I thought the graduate students were good role models in how we should approach our research, which motivated us greatly. They also pointed out what was lacking and suggested some improvements, which would make our research better. 

On November 2nd, twelve alumni, who graduated from Izumigaoka and now work all over Japan, and fourteen graduates, who study at university, visited us to hold special seminars for 1st and 2nd year students.  In the seminars for 2nd year students, the twelve alumni introduced themselves and their jobs to them, gave them a discussion topic and had them discuss in smaller groups. In the seminars for 1st year students, the fourteen graduates made a presentation about the fields they majored in. Through the presentation, the students learned about the skills for delivering a message effectively in a presentation as well as about studies and life in college.
(Voices from the Students)
“Confidence comes only from making an effort.”  I learned this today and decided to remember this phrase throughout my high school life.
I thought college life would be fun and decided to work harder in high school so that I could enter the college that I wanted to go to and enjoy studying there.
“Think freely from convention” - I thought it was a common phrase. “But without conventional knowledge, you could not do so”- when I heard this, I changed my way of looking at the world.  I realized that I should know more about the world in order to create something new and have broader views.

Yusui Minami, a musical actress in the U.S.A. and a graduate from Izumigaoka S.H.S., visited us on October 24th.  After graduating from high school, she learned drama in a university in America, and now she is performing mainly in New York and taking a leading part in the musical world.
In her lecture, Ms.Yusui emphasized the importance of having a dream by talking about the hardships before she started to perform.  The students were impressed by her words, “The sky is the limit,” “It’s up to you” and “Heart connection.”  The lecture was followed by a workshop, where the participants played games and enjoyed talking with others. They were able to feel more open-minded and found how fun communicating with others can be.  Inspired by Ms.Yusui, who was full of the energy and aura of a musical star, they looked more determined to have their future as bright as Ms.Yusui’s.