On 8 July 2024, a lecture was held for 240 first-year students in this high school.
It was an excellent opportunity for the students who attended the lecture to learn more about the Faculty of Engineering, especially the female students who heard about the research and university initiatives of the Faculty of Engineering, UTokyo. They left comments such as "I became very interested in the Faculty of Engineering, UTokyo, after learning about Dean Kato’s research, which is wonderful and known worldwide, and the slides of the campus life of Rikejo (science girls) were also informative and gave me the courage to believe that if I work hard, I too can open up a wonderful future". There are a number of students who were interested in his research, and they left feedback such as "I would have liked to hear more about rare earth mud and manganese nodule resources. I discovered something new that I didn’t know before", "I learned a lot from knowing that engineering research is not about the immediate future, but about the long-term future. I want to do resource research myself", and so forth. For those who do not often have an opportunity to hear such a lecture, it was a valuable time to reconsider their career path. After the lecture, the number of students who "wish to study at UTokyo" had increased, while teachers also expressed their gratitude for the increase in the number of students who want to pursue higher education.
Midori Aoki (Metaverse School of Engineering)