7月19日(金)の午後、2021年から始まった，東北唯一の国際英語プレゼンテーション大会(START2024; ST(udy) A(ssembly)(of) R(esearch) (at) (T(ouohgakkan)の略)を山形県教育委員会の後援のもと、本校が主催し、オンラインと対面のハイブリッド形式で開催されました。
この大会は、高校在学中に行った個人やグループの探究・研究活動の内容を英語で発表（10分間）し、質疑（他のチームからと審査員から5分ずつ質問される）を行って審査され、研究テーマごとに分かれた５つの会場で１位と２位を表彰します。
今年の参加校は、ノーンヒンウィッタヤコム中等学校(タイ)、ナレースアン大学附属中等学校(タイ)、SMKAコタキナバル中等学校(マレーシア)、國立臺北科技大學附屬桃園農工高級中等學校(台湾)の４校が海外から、国内は兵庫県立豊岡高等学校、東海大学付属高輪台高等学校、東京都立多摩科学技術高等学校、新潟県立新発田高等学校、岩手県立一関第一高等学校、秋田県立横手高等学校、宮城県立古川黎明高等学校、福島県立安積高等学校、福島県立ふたば未来学園高等学校の他、県内から米沢興譲館高等学校、寒河江高等学校、致道館高等学校、村山産業高等学校が参加しました。審査員は各会場2名ずつで、東京農工大学、東北大学、宮城教育大学、山形大学、畿央大学の先生方が協力してくださりました。
入賞者は以下の通りです（英文の最後に掲載しています）。
On the afternoon of July 19th (Friday), our school hosted the only international English presentation competition in the Tohoku region for the third time, called START2024 (STudy Assembly of Research at Touohgakkan). The event was held in a hybrid format, with both online and in-person participation, under the sponsorship of the Yamagata Prefectural Board of Education.
This competition involved individual and group research projects conducted by high school students. Participants presented their findings in English for a duration of 10 minutes and underwent a question-and-answer session, with 5 minutes of questions from other teams and judges. The presentations were evaluated, and first and second place winners were recognized in each research theme category.
This year’s participating schools included four schools from overseas: Nonghinwittayakom School (Thailand), Naresuan University Demonstration Secondary School (Thailand), SMKA Kota Kinabalu Secondary School (Malaysia), and National Taipei University of Technology Affiliated Taoyuan Agricultural and Industrial Senior High School (Taiwan). The ones of domestic schools were Hyogo Prefectural Toyooka High School, Tokai University Attached High School Takanawa, Tokyo Metropolitan Tama Science and Technology High School, Niigata Prefectural Shibata High School, Iwate Prefectural Ichinoseki First High School, Akita Prefectural Yokote High School, Miyagi Prefectural Furukawa Reimei High School, Fukushima Prefectural Asaka High School, and Fukushima Prefectural Futaba Mirai Gakuen High School, as well as Yamagata Prefectural Yonezawa Kojokan High School, Sagae High School, Chidokan High School, and Murayama Industrial High School High School.
The judging panels at each venue consisted of two members each, and they are from Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Tohoku University, Miyagi University of Education, Yamagata University, and Kio University.
The winners are as follows:
- ROOM 1
1st Prize: “Can Killifish Learn Conditioned Reflexes from Other Individuals?”, SHIMAMOTO Takeshi [Toukai Univ.Takanawadai]
- 2nd Prize: “Towards Self-Production of Glycyrrhiza uralensis in Japan : Hydoroponic and Soil Cultivation, and Estimation of Natural Groｗth Condition”, Ito Kenta，Abe Kota，Isagoda Haruki，Funaki Airi [Asaka High]
- ROOM 2
1st Prize: “Development of the PictoBlox program to warn the endpoint of Bromothymol blue in the chemical titration”, Vatanya Boonchiangma and Charinrat Mueanklang [Nonghinwittayakom]
2nd Prize: “Superiorities of fibroin fiber produced from waste ‘kibiso'”, Toa Narita [Chidokan]
- ROOM 3
1st Prize: “Chemistry Experiments without Chemicals”, Ran Otaka [Tama Science & Technology]
2nd Prize: “Campus Self-driving Car”, Yu-Jun, Jiang Yi-Huan, & Lai Jun-Quan, Zhong [Tao-Yuan Agricultural & Industrial Senior High]
- ROOM 4
1st Prize: “Let’s eat ONOMATOPEIA”, Uzuki Takahashi, [Furukawa Reimei]
2nd Prize: “Unraveling The World Of Malay Language”, Muhammad Faris Iman bin Mohamed Feroz, Syaidatul Athirah binti Shukor, Nur Shasha Aqiilah binti Jupry, Ahmad Khairil Danish bin Mohd Aizam [SMK Agama Kota Kinabalu]
- ROOM 5
1st Prize: “The Effects of Ethics Classes Using Context Shifting”, TAKADA Mio & TAKAHARA Hiroto, [Touohgakkan]
2nd Prize: ”Okitama Gender Innovation ～For All Generations～”, Aoki Mayuko & Suzaki Shiho [Kojokan]
Room1 (Touohgakkan)
Room1 (Naresuan Univ. from Thailand)
Room 2 (with students & teachers from Nonghinwittayakom)
Room 4
Room5 Naresan Univ.
Closing Ceremony
