Science Castle 2024 in Tokyo/Kanto and Osaka/KansaiPoster Jury Application Overview, ,Application Formis now available to the public!

Thank you very much for your continued understanding and cooperation in the educational and research activities of LIBANES.

In the fiscal year of 2023, a total of 57 research coaches were active in this program. In fiscal year 2023, a total of 57 research coaches were active. This is because we have expanded the presentation guidance and poster presentation screening, which were provided only by RIVANES employees when Science Castle was launched in 2012, by accepting registrations from a wide range of graduate students, university researchers, and corporate researchers.

Research Coach Case Study

• Marine Challenge Program (Mentoring)
• Girls Rocketry Challenge (mentoring)
• Shiga Junior Research Grant (Mentoring)
• Science Castle (poster judge) 

Imagine if you had started research when you were in junior high school. There are cases where students can receive support for transportation expenses, as in the case of SSH-designated schools, but there are also cases where there happen to be no specialists at nearby universities, In such cases, we have asked our research coaches to provide online guidance and to be as flexible as possible in terms of geographical and time constraints.

We hope that research coaches will share the following based on their own experiences of learning from us.

 

• Information about your research field
• How to research previous studies
• How to formulate a hypothesis or plan a research project
• How to conduct the experiment
• How to present and describe the information in a way that is easy to convey
• About yourself (why you are doing the research, your future plans as a researcher, etc.)

 

The type of teenagers we will work with will be assigned according to the research theme, based on the registration information (keywords in the field of expertise, etc.) of those who are willing to cooperate as coaches. However, we do not necessarily pair researchers who are "in the same field and in the same direction," as the themes submitted by teens tend to be more diverse, and the expertise of the research coaches is also characterized by a variety of directions, so that the coaches are often paired across fields. The number of coaches is also increasing, and the number of research coaches is also increasing.

The purpose of the Research Coach Program is to support the research of the next generation. At the same time, it is also our strong intention that the researchers who serve as research coaches will "get back what they have supported. This is something that RIVERNESS employees have actually felt while coaching presentations and engaging in discussions that deepen research, and I believe it is what makes the "Research Coach" program so rewarding and enjoyable.

 

Here are some testimonials from those who have served as research coaches, including

 

• I was able to gain insight into teaching students in the lab on a daily basis.
• I was happy that the high school students I worked with chose to pursue research.
• In a day-to-day life where I tend to get caught up in papers, being exposed to the pure curiosity of the next generation reminded me of how much I enjoy research.
• The enthusiasm, passion, perspectives and ideas of the children's research presentations were wonderful and greatly influenced me.

 

Please also allow me to present this in the form of an interview article.

interview (i.e. television, newspaper, etc.)

Research & Presentation Guidance

You will be paired mainly with an oral presenter, who will listen to your research progress orally and give you advice on how to keep you on track to get your research results within the deadline. The research coaches are encouraged to speak to the presenters in their own words, listening to their aspirations, such as "I have a passion, but I don't know how to deepen it as research," or "I want to present my research in a more understandable way, but I don't know how to do it. Advice can be given by tag-teaming with a RIVANES communicator to discuss the direction of the project.

Poster Judges

At the conference, you will serve as a poster judge. This is a rare opportunity for teenage researchers and research coaches to come together. The teenage researchers are inspired by the sense of accomplishment and motivation for the next stage of their research through the dialogue at the conference. On the other hand, the research coaches have also been very stimulated by seeing their "juniors" struggling.

For your reference, here are the specifications for the 2023 poster jury request.

If you are interested in serving as a research coach, please register your area of expertise and keywords using the registration form below. Based on your registration information, we will pair you with a teenager's research topic, and RIVANES will contact you to let you know if this is the case.

We look forward to your continued understanding and cooperation in our educational and research activities at Libanes.