Record of Our Activities

On July 12th, the 3rd-year students of the SGH course made a final presentation for an audience of exchange students from Tokyo University of Foreign Studies and Kanazawa University.  Many teachers in or outside of Ishikawa as well as the students’ parents came to watch the presentations in English.  Question & answer sessions were also conducted in English and the students did their best to overcome the challenging parts.  The audience said, “I was impressed with their presentation skills, especially with their facial expressions,” or “I was surprised at how well the students answered questions in English.” Some said, “The research was logical and I was able to understand that they approached their topic from various perspectives.”  Others pointed out that students were actively involved in the event not only as presenters but also as the MCs or the supporters for organizing the event. The students enjoyed the praise from the audience.
【Voices from the Students】
・Different people have different ideas. We were not able to reach an agreement easily. We sometimes thought it might be easier to work individually but we highly valued working as a group and specifying the roles of group members in most of our activities.  We hope we can do some more projects related to the topic that we are working on.
・We sometimes got stuck in deciding how we should develop our research. Now we can say that we were right in that we did not stop our research even though we were not sure that what we were doing was right.  We realized that the quickest way to the solution is, actually, to keep working, even if you are not sure.
・We thought how difficult and how interesting it was to work on the issues that had no clear answer.  At first, we felt less confident in what we were doing since we were not sure of whether we were doing in the right way, but we were able to be more confident as we thought more about what we were trying to achieve and for whom we were working.  We were happy to be in the SG course and involved in the problem-solving process even though we contributed very little to it.