On 15 March 2024, a lecture was held at Hosen Gakuen Junior and Senior High School.
More than 400 third year junior high school students and senior high school students attended the lecture. The lecture began with questions asked by Dean Kato, and it was wonderful to see how cheerfully the participating students answered his questions.
It was a valuable lecture for the participating students in deciding their future career paths, who gave comments such as "I was vaguely thinking of studying at UTokyo, but I got more motivated to study further at UTokyo Faculty of Engineering after listening to various research interests introduced by Dean Kato"; "I was interested in studying medicine, and got more encouraged to research in the field of collaboration between medicine and engineering". There were many other enthusiastic messages from students such as "I wanted to listen to his lecture longer than planned".
Midori Aoki (Metaverse School of Engineering)