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Programs for High school Students
< High School Student Assistants / High School Student Interns >
In May 2009, we started "High School Student Assistants(U18)" in which we employ students from Tsuruoka Chuo High School, Yamagata Prefecture, as student assistants. In the 2025 academic year, 23 student assistants are working on nine research projects.
Furthermore, in the 2011 academic year, we launched "High School Student Interns" in which we accept high school and technical college students who have big dreams of becoming world-class researchers earning doctoral degrees in the future as student interns, and fully support their research activities on their own themes.In the 2025 academic year, a total of 17 high school students from five schools in Tsuruoka City and Sakata City, Yamagata Prefecture were engaged in this program.
< High School Students Bio-Summit in Tsuruoka>
Since the 2011 academic year, we have been holding the annual summer "High School Students Bio-Summit in Tsuruoka", in which high school students from throughout Japan gather in Tsuruoka City to give presentations on their daily research results or discuss how bioscience should be in the future. About 140 high school students from 59 schools nationwide participated in the 15th Bio-Summit, and 98 oral presentations were presented in the 1st round. Details of next summit will be announced later on the following website:
http://www.bio-summit.org/index.html
Organizer: Organizing Committee, High School Students Bio-Summit in Tsuruoka (IAB, Yamagata Prefecture, Tsuruoka City).
<Keio Summer Bio College(KSBC)>
This is a program in which high school students of Keio gather in our research institute, and can experience the fundamentals of biotechnology.
High school students conduct practical experiments in areas such as genetic engineering and computer analysis of genomic information. This program has been held since the 2001 academic year.
https://iab-ksbc.iab.keio.ac.jp/
<Keio Astrobiology Camp(KAC)>
This program brings together high school students through graduate students from across Japan to engage with the theme of astrobiology. It features lectures by leading researchers from Japan and abroad, discussions, group work, and presentations on assigned topics. This program has been held since the 2015 academic year.