As a part of the Indian contingent, 6 students of RKK, Poorvie Choudhary, Kanika Singh, Aastha Sancheti, Siddhika Didel, Mugdha Raje Ashiya, Surbhi Pittie with their Teacher Escort Mrs Kalyani Banerjee went to Japan in the month of June, to attend a week long Sakura Science High School Programme from
17th June to 24th June 2018. The objective of the programme was to ignite the young minds about Japan’s cutting edge technology and scientific innovations.
They went to Sapporo, the capital city of Hokkaido Island, Tokyo and Yokohoma in Japan. After a traditional welcome by the students of Ritsumeiken High School, they witnessed the famous tea ceremony and Ken do, Japanese Sword fighting. The highlight of the visit to the high school was the hovercraft making competition among different groups which was a fun filled interactive session. Two of the RKK team members won the friendly competition.
Visiting Hokkaido and Rikkyo Universities were real motivational sessions.
One of the most enlightening experiences was the hands-on experiment by the Nobel Laureate Dr. Hideki Shirakawa. The experimental class for creating and interactive session with such an eminent personality was once in a lifetime opportunity for the students. Miraiken- the National Museum of Emerging Science and innovation was the place where they met ASIMO- the Humanoid Robot, saw the geo cosmos screening, large mechanical hands on model of the internet, models of particle accelerator etc.
A visit to JAMSTEC made them aware about the improvement in marine science, climate and technology, global climatic change, climatic variation predictability, Biogenesis- the evolution process of Earth, earthquake and Tsunami research projects for disaster prevention. This visit was an eye opener to different ideas and perspective relevant to human lives. The enriching and welcoming environment provided growth and development in the newly discovered matters.
